Distance Today: 261km
After catching up with Team Wrong Turn, who crashed into us on the first day, over dinner last night we headed off from Kanpur (in the opposite direction to them, thankfully) on National Highway 86 through an impressive almost-desert like landscape. Although a fairly uneventful trip (save having to pull off a side-of-the-road petrol refill after running the tank dry) the impressive views more than made for any missing danger. 
Total Distance Travelled: 1011km
Driving Time: 10 hours
After catching up with Team Wrong Turn, who crashed into us on the first day, over dinner last night we headed off from Kanpur (in the opposite direction to them, thankfully) on National Highway 86 through an impressive almost-desert like landscape. Although a fairly uneventful trip (save having to pull off a side-of-the-road petrol refill after running the tank dry) the impressive views more than made for any missing danger. After driving into India from Nepal we're no longer seen as driving a novelty vehicle but as a taxi. People keep flagging us down. The most unusual were two men and their six goats who wanted a lift. We declined.
Khajuraho is the first tourist town that we have been to and we were the only tourists there so people took quite an interest in us. After visiting the temples in the area, famous for their erotic sculptures, we were accosted by a guy calling himself Ricky Martin who then did a very good impression of a limpet for the next two hours. We treated ourselves to a swim in a 5 star hotel pool and Amelia managed to prang the Chapati team's rickshaw.
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