The 1000 Day Holiday

Some of the jeeps from manali to Leh had 12 people packed into them. I didnt think it could get outdone.

Until coming down from Pachmarhi. Share jeeps are the only regular option.

Ours ended up with 20 people in/on it!

5 including me in the front seat.

6 in the back seat.

 7 in the boot.

 2 hanging off the back for good measure.

Now you would think this would make changing gears difficult. Youre right. Not that it mattered for the majority of the 1000m vertical descent over a period of 20km because we free wheeled without the engine running around the switchbacks and blind corners!

To top it off. once at Pipariya waiting for the train. I was eating a mango. A helpful goat trotted over and finished off the skins and started taking great interest in the remains of the mango in my hand. So I was paying more attention to it, than what I was eating.

Then I bite down, and get a relly nutty crunch. Looking down, a large black beetle had emerged from the seed, and been promptly been mauled by my teeth. All to great delight of the indians sitting watching me.

Yummy!