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After another filling breakfast cooked by Jeet we had our tents packed up and where back on our cycles by around 8.30pm. We made our way along country roads besides fields growing onions, cauliflower, millet and cotton to name a few. Again wherever we ride we are greeted by smiling faces and greetings. We're really enjoying riding in rural India, nice easy riding with hardly any hills. We stopped in at a local brick making place today and Laurie was really interested to see how things were done over here compared to back in Oz. It is all manual labour here and while we were there they were unloading the kiln and stacking the bricks all by hand using old wooden wheelbarrows. There were a couple of young women doing this work as well - no wonder they have rough hands. Then before lunch we visited the Adharshila Human Development Institute, a school for blind children and deaf children. Here we met Rahul Goyal, a 13yo orphan who lives at the school and teaches the young children Braille. What an inspirational young boy he is. He gave us a demonstration on how he shows the young ones how to write using special instruments to allow them to punch out the coded dots that make up the letters. We were then showed their computer room. This little side trip wasn't on our schedule so it was a lovely bonus to visit this wonderful little school. After lunch by the side of the road we jumped on the minivan with Bihari and drove Bharatpur. This is close by the bird sanctuary we visit tomorrow and as it has been a good wet season, there are plenty of mossies about so instead of camping out tonight we have a room in a fairly cheap hotel (hotel Sonar Haveli). They are being very considerate and letting Jeet and Co cook in their grounds and serve us Jeet's food in their restaurant.
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