Gujarat Gujarat is awesome…..even without meat and alcohol! It’s as rural as it can get… desserts, curling mountains, lakes, vegetable farms, tobacco plantains, wild animals, such as bulls, horses, camels, flamingos, donkeys, eagles but also stunning palaces and temple ruins..The people are exceptionally nosy too. One morning after finally managing to set off early we discovered after a few kms that we'd forgotten 3 of our gloves. Whilst going through our bags on the roadside it got very difficult to continue our argument about who's fault it was, as more and more drivers and passersby stopped to stare and ask 'which country from?' Even private space for an argument in India is impossible! Arrived in Gujarat our couchsurfer Roshan and his friends welcomed us with some whiskey and coke- what a nice surprise in this dry
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