Day 67

The Grand Trunk Road…The Grand Trunk Road is one of Asia’s oldest and longest major roads. For more than two millennium, it has linked South Asia with Central Asia. It runs from Bangladesh to India. From there, the road continues towards Lahore and Peshawar in Pakistan, finally terminating in Kabul, Afghanistan. We will ride it on a holiday and leaving early in the morning, but it is not enough!!!

The temperature and the humidity are really high, so it’s at least uncomfortable to ride in this conditions. Then you have to add the crazy drivers coming from all directions (one good thing is that anybody can come from the sky, so we don’t need to worry about this?), plus the lovely unexpected potholes, cows, “water buffaloes”, rickshaws… In my opinion, when I look in front of us, I see an image from the game “Mario Car”; it’s just insane, the only thing that’s missing is the “banana throwing”!

The Eid al-Adha implies animal sacrrifice and a feast all over the country, and today we can see the results of that. First we find an strange big ball in the middle of the road… it isa cow stomach!!! (yes full of shit). And about not being worried about what comes from the sky when we are on the road … I change my mind after a while! a truck starts to overtake us and it is full of discarted pieces of animals. Specially some cow intestines and stomachs that are hangig out of the trailer just over our heads!!!

Finally after 6 or 7 hours we arrive to Lahore, that’s a bit of a chaos city. On the way we experienced again the hospitality on this country. When we stop on a gas station the people start talking to us, they give us juices for free, and they offer any help that we can need during our stay in their country; even they prepare some lunch for us when we haven’t asked for!

Today we are tired, so we will visit tomorrow the city. In the evening we met with Mark, Eloy and Lucy to have some beer (they found a hotel that serves alcohol to the foreigners!!!) and dinner.