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Arm yourself with Life Insurance before making that trip.

We are intending to drive approximately 2,000 miles from Kochin in the South of India to Darjeeling in the North.

Unfortunately rickshaws have an average speed of about 20 miles per hour, which means that conceivably we could make the 2,000 miles in just 10 days... However that does not take into account the time spent gawping - India is moderately gawpworthy so we're told - stopping for a pee, stopping for something to eat, cows in the road and, er, traffic. We can't use main roads as we'd be nailed within 5 miles of the start by one of those massive "Might is Right" lorries. That means we'll have to go from town to town on B-roads and side-streets. I've seen it on YouTube: traffic doesn't go faster that 15 mph and that's in suicidal spurts.

And of course this makes no mention of Delhi belly. Sure as eggs is rotten eggs we'll forget what we've been advised and accidentally have ice in our G&T or order a salad washed under a tap (so easily done). With so much against us I suspect that what started as a Cross-India expedition will end up being written up as "Two Weeks Spent Travelling Around the Delightful and Interesting Town of Kochin in Kerala, with notes on the state of local hospitals and the quirks of Keralan mechanics"

Anyway assuming we are more succesful below is a map of our approximate proposed route! This is very much a guideline as checkpoints havent yet been proposed and nor have we decided on where we need to be tourists!

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