14th of December

After missing the bus to Shimla at 0630 we caught one to Chandigarh then caught a bus to Shimla. It would be more precise to say we caught a bus for 30 metres and then were stuck in a bus strike for about 1.5 hours.

During the time we waited and during the subsequent journey a nice couple played some music from their laptop. It turns out that Indian music sounds no better when played really badly from cheap speakers than when inflicted from a good stereo system.











I thought riding on a bus from Delhi to Chanders was bad, that was a relatively wide road with over taking lanes. The road from Chanders to Shimla was anything but nice. A narrow road composed of one lane in either direction with cars, buses and trucks regularly overtaking each other on the wrong side of the road. Not only was the road narrow, it was sided with a cliff and a cliff. One rising to the heavens and the other falling down like the pits of kaz’hadum. I must confess I closed my eyes more than once and held my breath while we squeezed between a bus or truck and a cliff face. I don't think it made the bus any thinner but it didn't seem to do any harm either.