top but alas mountains no where to be seen, instead we were subjected to something that resembled the worst parts of Blackpool fair with shooting galleries galore, dodgy cafes and severely tacky gift shops, we stayed approximately 5 minutes then high tailed back down to the town. We then went on a 2km walk around Camelback Road which was fairly scenic and was nice just to get out and have a bit of a walk.

We had spotted a Domino’s Pizza so ordered a couple of take away pizza’s, garlic bread and chilli dip went back to the room and watched Lost in Translation on the laptop! The next morning we were up with the lark and very much looking forward to leaving Mussoorie knowing full well that neither of us ever wished to see let alone hear about Mussoorie ever again!!!

Ris

hikesh
9th - 16th October
We had to get 2 buses to Rishikesh which took about 3 hours in total, there was one change at the dreaded Dehra Dun. The second bus we got was on the small side with far too many people crammed in it. I had to sit for the whole journey (just over an hour) with my rucksack on my knee which was fairly grim but what made it worse was that my pacsafe was on my rucksack as it had both the camera and laptop in it, not the most comfortable journey ever!

We arrived in Rishikesh and it looked a proper dump, so we jumped in a rickshaw to the area we wanted to go and keep our fingers crossed, as we had planned to stay here for the rest of our time in India. We were hoping that the chaos would subside and the place would become more inviting. It was incredibly busy and the first guest house we tried was full so we crossed over