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Photographs by Kim Epton
A week before the Storm we recced part of the course. |
 Chandon Batia, Niaz Ali and Ashish Gupta. |
Niaz Ali with one of the locals. |
 The local bus.
Stone is used for myriad purposes in Rajasthan. |
Typical village. |
 A local. |
 Ashish Gupta and Kim Epton, early morning in some small village somewhere in the wilds of Rajasthan. |
. Looking out over the desert from a Temple. The tracks to the right were wrong. Those to the left lead to the Checkpoint. |
 It was like this for many a kilometre. |
 Temple in the desert. |
 The only feature across an enormous dry lake bed. |
We got caught behind this (and numerous others like it) on
our return to Delhi from our recce in Rajasthan. |
 More trucks. India would be defunct without these trucks. |
 Highway travel is problematic as one gets caught behind thousands of these trucks - limited to 40 kph. Kilometre after kilometre of trucks slow progress on what otherwise would be high speed roads. They don't know about keeping left. |
 After the recce we went shopping for shock absorbers. |
Transportation in India varies from this |
to this, |
 to this. |
