Day 35: It's over

That’s it, the journey is over. Tonight we are flying back to Paris.
What is left from this trip: few useless artifacts and over 3,000 pictures that I promise, I will not bother anyone with. But mostly we are having our eyes filled with stars from all the splendors we saw and all the people we met.
Thank you for having spent some time with us reading this blog.
So long, and do not drive like the Indians.
Philippe

Day 34: Bombay

Elephanta Caves
The Taj Mahal Hotel
Now we are riding a bus which is comfortable but less poetic. We saw the city and its contrasts (rich districts, poor slums). The Taj Mahal hotel is operating but still under repairs following its recent terrorist attack.

We had a boat cruise to visit Elephanta Island and its amazing VI th century carved caves dedicated to Shiva. This was our last visit ending our tour with a bang.

Day 33: Vadadora - Mumbai (Bombay)

Strange encounter on the highwayReturning the cars at the docks
The day was spent mostly driving to turn back the cars to the shipping company for loading on containers for shipment to France.

The road was not too bad, mostly 6 lane highway, with the peculiarity to encounter shepherd and its herd of various animals or a truck coming on the wrong side for obscure reasons. However the fourteen 2CV Citroen did perform miraculously well, not a single accident in more than 10,000 km (exactly 10,100 km for us).

Overall our car did very well, if I except two blown up tires, two front shock absorbers shot, few torn rims and a collapsed frame, everything was repaired mostly with a big hammer.

We are going to miss our car, we feel like a knight without his white horse or Lucky Luke without Jolly Jumper (this for the French readers only).

We only spent 4 hours waiting for the custom officer to accept our cars and 2 more hours to reach our hotel, so there was not time to visit Bombay, which is tomorrow program.