Bicycle Touring South Asia: India, Lucknow to Faizabad

Cycling around South Asia, my latest bicycle touring update from India. Lucknow to Faizabad. 79 miles. Well, they certainly know how to party here. The fireworks went on all night! I think the last ones I heard were at about 2 am. Even when I got up this morning, I could still hear the odd firework being let off somewhere! And they’re still letting them off here in Faizabad tonight. It’s getting a bit boring now!

Fast ride today without a stop. Well, not stopping properly, as in getting off the bike and sitting down somewhere. I couldn’t see the point. I wasn’t going to take a chance on eating something just in case, as my stomach still didn’t feel good!

Early Finish?

As a consequence of not stopping, I arrived in Faizabad pretty early and immediately set about finding a hotel. The first one I found was all closed up. Perhaps they were having a refit. And went off in search of another one. Just around the corner, I found two more hotels, but they were also closed! I started to wonder whether this was some sort of tourist town, and it was now out of season. Everywhere had closed!

I carried on looking and found more hotels, but they were also closed. I went up to one of them and got talking to the manager. He told me it was a public holiday, so all the staff were off! I asked if there were any hotels around that would be open, and he said no! After doing my, I’ve travelled a long way and really wanted to stay in this town routine, he eventually said that I could stop. But it would be room only and no services, that was fine by me, that’s all I wanted anyway!

Tour Information

It’s been years since I took this ride, but the memories (and the data) are all archived:

• Photos: See my photos on Flickr
• The route: View my route across India & Nepal
• Videos: Check out my YouTube videos
• Tour page: Ride overview

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