I.N.spired - Himalayan Breeze

Finally met up with Faruq for a quick discussion last Saturday. Although we spent more than half the time at Al-Majlis watching the Liverpool and Man United matches, we've decided on a skeleton of what, or rather how, the northern route and the eventual traverse into Nepalese territory should look like:

While the route is pretty much tried and tested, the exact prices and duration of bus journeys aren't. Pieces of information on transport throughout India and Nepal are generally sketchy so we basically rely heavily on Lonely Planet. Nonetheless, it seems incredulous for all bus journeys within Nepal to be 8 hours long.

What proves to be a bigger pain in the arse is designing the fastest route from Chennai to Agra and from Patna back to Chennai. So far, our only options are a 24 hours Delhi-bound train between Chennai and Agra and the more harrowing Patna-Kolkata (10 hours) and Kolkata-Chennai (28 hours) ass-ripper.