It was an early start for our run into the Indian capital city, but the heat certainly wasn’t giving us much of a break at that time. Fortunately, near desert conditions, few people and minimal traffic, along with a good quality road resulted in a quick run through to Delhi and we arrived at 2pm. This included a stop off at Amber City, a 16thcentury fort high up on a hill overlooking Jaipur. My body, which has not been in great shape since Kathmandu, took a further turn for the worst today, and I didn’t get to see much of the fort except for the toilets! The road into Delhi was surprisingly desolate, right up to within 40kms of the city. As a city, it appeared very much cleaner, less populated, and all round a much
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