After a missed approach due to a thunderstorm over Delhi, I finally arrived. On Sunday I intended to proceed to
Chandigarh, joint capital of the two neighbouring states of Punjab and Haryana.
After hovering a while over the town, the captain announced that we have to return to Delhi due to bad visibility caused by a dust storm. We landed and, as expected, the flight was finally canceled! Super! This forced us to change plan.
Next day a 5 hours drive to Chandigarh where we finally met with
Rajesh.
I was to travel by car to the holy town of
Haridwar situated at the River Ganges.
Suresh Kuttinath will meet me there. All went well, after 7 hours drive, I reached the place.
The Northern part of this trip ended on Thursday in Delhi and I traveled to
Mumbai where I met some old friends from Lagos times. Than with Rahul Joshi to
Srivassa (ALOK) and
Nagpur. Via Mumbai to Chennai to Madurai where
Manick took over. We traveled to
Rajapalayam, Dindigul and Coimbatore.
On Sunday we made a nice excursion up the mountains to
Kodaikanal, at 2130 m asl. it was cool, later it started even raining. A welcome change of climate! Than via
Bangalore
to
Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh), back to
Hydarabad to Mumbai and finally home to Zurich where the temperature was 11°C.