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Blogs and posts from Garry’s trip to India

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Indian Photo Album October/November 2016

The Red Fort Delhi

Photo’s from the Indian leg of Garry’s 2000 mile cycle tour of India and Nepal in October/November 2016.

You can also view the photos that Garry posted in his daily updates that he sent out as he cycled around by clicking here, which are different to these.

Gateway of India Mumbai
Garry at the Gateway of India Mumbai
Gateway of India Mumbai
The Taj Mahal Palace Mumbai
The Taj Mahal Palace Mumbai
Night shelter in Mumbai
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Mumbai
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Mumbai
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Mumbai
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Mumbai
The Dhobi Ghat in Mumbai
The Dhobi Ghat in Mumbai
Really! Not too sure anybody else was of the same opinion!
Beer and snacks
A good old Ambassador car in Mumbai
A dabbawalas bike in Mumbai
Dabbawalas in Mumbai
Looking towards the Oval Maiden, Mumbai
Fashion street Mumbai
Always good to have the bike in the room
Mind those cows on the road
Temple along the road
Riverside housing
Locals posing for a photo
Garry with the owner from the hotel in Malsne
Local teacher in Malsne who also had a little small holding where he grew some crops
Ox and cart ploughing the field in Malsne
The Satmala hills
The onion Market at Umarane, Maharashtra
Little vans all loaded ready to go delivering
Too much choice
Lovely samosas a favourite food for Garry in the daytime
Breakfast stop for Garry
Royal Enfield motorbike
Making friends with the locals in Dhule
Making friends with the locals in Dhule
Making friends with the locals in Dhule
The family from the hotel in Dhule that looked after Garry when he wasn’t very well
The local shop in Dhule that Garry used to use
Garry was invited to breakfast with a family in Dhule one day
Chipmunk Garry kept seeing plenty of these little fellows
Now that’s an iron and a half
Local ironing service in Dhule
Thums Up cola drink
Happy smiley faces at the market in Dhule
Ox and cart
Camel caravan
Camel caravan
Oops!
Oops!
Hanuman Indian monkey god
Sultania road Bhopal
Four poster bed nothing but the best for Garry!
Doing the washing
Locals bathing in the river
Monkeys!
Cows cooling down in the water
Parakeets
Parakeet
Busy morning on the roads
Kingfisher along the road
Kingfisher along the road
Typical lunch stop
Fort at Talbahat, Uttar Pradesh
Matatil dam reservoir
Doing the weekly wash
Cows cooling down
Masks
Fort at Amargarh, Uttar Pradesh
Busy streets
The woods coming out of Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh
Spider in the woods coming out of Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh
Temple along the road at Dhadha Bujurg Uttar Pradesh
An elephant at work
Fisherman on the Burhi Gandak river
Fisherman on the Burhi Gandak river
World Peace Pagoda, Delhi
Looking towards Raisina Hills, Delhi
Looking towards India Gate from Raisina Hills
Elephant outside the presidents palace in Delhi
Looking towards India Gate from Raisina Hills
Feroze Shah Kotla Palace Delhi
The Red Fort Delhi
The Red Fort Delhi
The Red Fort Delhi
Delhi Gate, Delhi
Statue in Delhi in memory of the countless Indians who generation after generation struggled and sacrificed against foreign rule
Parliament building, Delhi
Masjid Khairul Manzil, Delhi
India Gate, Delhi
India Gate, Delhi

Alternatively, you can view the photos on Garry’s Flickr page.

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Indian Bicycle Tour Photos 2016

Garry McGivern meeting school children at a school in Sagar.

Garry McGivern Travelsonabike2 Indian bicycle tour photos 2016. These are the photographs that have accompanied Garry’s daily blogs over the past two months. As Garry cycled 2000 miles across India and Nepal.

They may not be the best quality as they were mainly taken on his mobile phone. But they are all the photos that he posted, plus one or two extra ones. The main photo album will be published on Garry’s Flickr page as soon as he gets around to uploading them. In the meantime, please enjoy these.

You can also find photos on Garry’s Facebook and Instagram pages, which you can view without subscribing. But if you already subscribe to social media, why not follow Garry?

Photo Album

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In search of the dabbawalas in Mumbai.
Cows on the streets of Mumbai.
Crow taking a ride on a train in Mumbai.
The Dhobi Ghat in Mumbai.
The Dhobi Ghat in Mumbai.
Sign on the hotel bar in Mumbai.
Garry at the Gateway of India Mumbai.
The Taj Mahal Palace Mumbai.
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Mumbai.
A few of the dabbawalas in Mumbai.
Countryside once Garry had left Mumbai.
The busy roads leaving Mumbai.
Stopping for a bite to eat at a cafe.
Staff from the hotel in Malsne.
The onion Market at Umarane, Maharashtra.
The Satmala hills.
A shrine along the roadside.
One of the brightly coloured that was outside every shop in Dhule meaning welcome.
A dead cockroach.
The results of Garry’s blood test, Garry was impressed with the age they put!
View from Garry’s room in Dhule.
Passepartout outside the hotel in Dhule.
Satmala Hills.
Sign outside the hotel in Dhule.
Street in Dhule.
Drawings outside the shops in Dhule.
More drawings outside the shops in Dhule.
A good old Indian bike.
One of the many trucks on the roads.
The Satmala Hills again.
Cows on the road.
River front houses!
Ox and cart ploughing the field.
Mind those cows on the road.
Road in Dhule.
Garry’s view from his hospital bed in Dhule.
Hospital ward.
The nurses that looked after Garry in Dhule.
Sign outside the pharmacist in Dhule.
Garry on the nebuliser.
Garry’s treatment room at the hospital in Dhule.
Getting ready for an engagement party at the hotel in Dhule.
Preparing the food for the engagement party.
Some of the food at the engagement party.
Pushing a cart along the street.
Tent covering the engagement party.
Garry was in Dhule for so long he set up a business!
Dhule street.
Wash day!
Busy streets in Dhule.
Making friends in Dhule.
Garry’s local in Dhule!
Deepam, Pradeep, Kalpana and Bagheeva the dog, owners of the hotel in Dhule.
The family from the little shop I used whilst I was stuck in Dhule.
Horses behind the hotel in Dhule.
Trinkets given to me by Kalpana, the wife of the owner of the hotel in Dhule.
Crossroads in Dhule.
The caterers.
Inside with some of the food.
Meeting some friends of the hotel owners, from the hotel in Dhule.
Busy food market in Dhule.
Colourful market stall
Lovely food.
Market in Dhule.
Streets in Dhule.
Smiley market traders
More happy faces in the market at Dhule.
Sewing services.
The barbers in Dhule.
Deepam and the staff at the hotel in Dhule that looked after Garry when he wasn’t very well.
Hills near Nardana Maharashtra.
There’s some hills in the distance.
Nearly at the top of the hill.
The Narmada river.
A camel caravan.
Washing in the river.
Goats.
Camels along the road.
Crossing the tropic of Cancer.
The suns going down and Garry was still cycling.
Garry cycling into the night.
Monkeys in the road.
The local car wash!
The mosque in Bhopal.
Leaving the hotel in Indore.
Hotel in Sehore.
Yet another river.
Meeting school children at a school in Sagar.
Busy roads today!
Doing the washing.
Taking the goats for a walk.
Busy streets in Kanpur
School children wanting their photo taken.
The very appetizing breakfast not! At the hotel in Lalipur.
A fort at Amargarh.
Making a right mess trying to eat his dhal!
Lunch break.
Guesthouse in Orai where Garry stayed for the night.
People always want you to take their photo.
Bhognipur.
Bhognipur Uttar Pradesh.
Colourful trinkets for sale in the market at Kanpur.
Busy streets in Kanpur
Don’t think anybody uses them!
Arriving in Lucknow.
St Joseph’s cathedral Lucknow.
Happy Diwali.
Happy Diwali signs in Lucknow.
A taxi stand for rickshaws in Lucknow.
Rickshaws in Lucknow.
The general post office in Lucknow
Vidhan Sabha in Lucknow.
Fireworks in Lucknow on Diwali.
Bikes are used for so much more than cycling from one place to another.
Farm somewhere on the road to Faizabad.
Looking out over the fields.
Basti, Uttar Pradesh.
Pretty flowers on the water.
A river somewhere along the road on the way to Gorakhpur.
Waiting at a level crossing.
The woods on the road out of Gorakhpur.
Spiders in the woods coming out of Gorakhpur.
Mosquitoes buzzing around the light
A rickshaw in Gopalganj
There’s an elephant in there somewhere
Burhi Gandak river
It’s Garry
The rough road leading up to the Nepal border.
Hotel camping in the first hotel after leaving Nepal.
The bad roads on the way to Moradabad.
Queues at the banks following the abolition of 500 and 1000 rupee notes.
A rather dirty and dusty Garry at the end of the day
People from the Hotel Garry stopped at in Ghodaghodi
On the road to Delhi, it reminded Garry more of America than India.
The view of a smoggy Delhi from Garry’s hotel room
Raisina Hills Delhi
The message on the front of a learner drivers manual, Don’t think anybody reads it though going on the experience Garry had!
Government building in Delhi
Looking up towards Rashtrapati Bhavan the presidents residence Delhi
Marble and chandeliers in the hotel lobby in Delhi
India Gate Delhi
Feroze Shah Kotla Palace Delhi
The Red Fort Delhi
The Red Fort viewed from Netaji Subhash way Delhi
Statue in Delhi in memory of the countless Indians who generation after generation struggled and sacrificed against foreign rule