Perhaps the most wonderful thing about this vagrant life is that we can change our immediate fate in a matter of seconds. Discussing the next few weeks in a restaurant in Siam Reap, we realised that we had had enough of Southeast Asia and that another land was calling to us from across the Bay of Bengal. It was already our plan to return to dear old India but, following this discussion, we were practically running to an internet cafe to advance our tickets. Within two days we were on a bus to Bangkok which is where we are now, waiting for our Sunday flight. Unfortunately, this means our overland journey is now over (it is not possible to travel to India through Myanmar) but we certainly haven't done badly, London to Bangkok without flying. In a sudden and highly uncharacteristic spate of mathematics l have reduced our grand journey to the following meaningless statistics.
22,000km travelled
189 days on the road
20 countries passed through
68 places slept in
54 buses ridden
12 cars
9 trains
3 boats
3 trucks
6 diaries filled with rambling nonsense
10 number systems learnt
3 alphabets mastered (almost, and one of them is our own)
3rd trip of a lifetime
So that about wraps it up. You may be wondering why we are returning to India for the third time but I hope my next post will serve as some sort of explanation...
No comments:
Post a Comment