Summary Engine on: 10:00 Engine off for the night: 19:45 KM travelled: 188 Issues/breakdowns: No major issues to report on. Popcorn noise in the engine started again, but we managed to fix that by fiddling with the filter. Challenges: Potholes and night time driving in the rain, thunder and lightning. After a slow start, Google maps failed us once again! Instead of taking us via the highway (which turns out to also be the shorter route), we were led into ru...

Summary Engine on: 08:40 Engine off for the night: 17:00 KM travelled: 341 Issues/breakdowns: No issues to report on Challenges: Staying awake on the highways Early start today at 4.30 to squeeze in a ride on an elephant in the Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary and some one horned Rhino spotting. We were very lucky and saw four Rhinos and when we were just about to leave, a herd of Bison and a Rhino came out into open ground which was fantastic to see. Van kept...

Summary Engine on: 09:15 Engine off for the night: 16:30 KM travelled: 183 Issues/breakdowns: Matt drove off the shoulder of the road and the wheel made some suspicious noises after that. Challenges: A challenge-free day We woke up in the morning to see that the cloud/haze had cleared to give us a stellar view, right out of the hotel window, of the Himalayas and the world's third highest mountain! After some breaky we went up to the viewpoint above the hote...

Summary Engine on: 08:30 Engine off for the night: 16:30 KM travelled: 101 Issues/breakdowns: None (phewf, would've been tricky to deal with up here as no tuk tuks around) Challenges: driving up the mountain road; Google maps sending us the wrong way on the worst steep and bumpy unsealed trail we've encountered the entire trip; navigating the one-way systems in Darjeeling; Hotel booking unsuccessful. Oh, where to start in describing today! What was going to...

Summary Engine on: 05:00 Engine off for the night: 17:30 KM travelled: 330 Issues/breakdowns: Elton got sick, although we just managed to just make it to Siliguri Challenges: driving with Elton when he's feeling under the weather, cleaning the carburettor and potholes. We managed a personal best for early morning starts and made great progress before we stopped to cool down the engines which is required every 2 hours. On one of our stops we got our biggest ...