Gorakhpur

Gorakhpur, Dec 1, 2011.
47 km.

The road continues to be much better than in Nepal and cycling felt easy. Still I stopped in Gorakhpur already around noon, after a modest 47 km. I needed to buy an India map and rode to the railway station. No one bothered me when I took my bike all the way in to the station and out on the platform. There I found a very helpful newspaper man who took the trouble to go find me a very good map. It is a motorists map, a real book actually.

Since it was lunch time I stopped for some Dal Fry and a couple of rotis just opposite the station. Terrific food, so glad to be India!

After having checked out my new map I decided I had better stay here and start out fresh in the morning. It may well be a good distance to the next place where I can find a guest house.

I have been to Gorakhpur several times before on my way to or from Nepal. Never really liked the place and don't think much of it now either. I am staying at the Elora Hotel near the train and bus stations. There is an awful lot of noise, particularly from the buses whose drivers honk their horns incessantly.