Long beards and longer hair

Leaving Delhi heading for Amritsar around 460km. The first day with the bike had arrived so fast it was now time to figure it all out. The breaks and gears are arse about face on the bike and she is quite a bit bigger than the Minsk. But after a couple of stalls with what seemed 5 million hooters aimed at me it was all smiles. The sound of her as we go under bridges it amazing. It's almost like I have my cuzes GT40 on two wheels. The traffic is insane in Delhi much like Hanoi in Vietnam. But the roads outside the cities are much better and the traffic more chilled. We left Delhi at 10am after a few odds and ends, taking a good hour to leave the grips of it. It's still amazing to see just how many people are living in India. Mumbai has 53 million people living in it, that's my hole country in one city that's much the same size as Johannesburg.

Around 7:45 the sun left the sky and we were shy 30km from Amritsar. It's also the time every insect in the world seems to head for the road and your eyes. It's never easy at night, even now that my Enfield has a light that works. The roads are mad enough as it is in the day, at night there are rickshaw drivers crossing the road, people motor bikes with out lights coming the wrong way, hooting and more insects than you can swallow. So we took it slow real slow and arrived at the Golden Temple at 8'ish.

It was now time to mingle with the pilgrims, eat the free food and rest. Jeez being off a bike for so long I've turned into a bit of a girl. So it was a shower, cream for the sun burn and clean clothes. It still felt like outer space that night. All this beauty and here we are stiff, deaf (all though that engine sound make my heart pump lumpy custard), it was a little shell shocking.

If you ever get to India you have to see this place. They feed 200,000 people every day, the japatie machine spits out half a million japaties a day. The best part is delicious and free. The days are almost unbearably hot. But the mornings at sun rise are out of this world. Spending and evening wondering around the temple area is humbling.