Day 15-16: Exploring Aurangabad

Today's route: Arrived at 8 am in the morning back in town and stayed nicely put after the long bus journey through the night. Didn’t get much chance for rest but at least time for shower, change and a hot lunch at the hotel as our new team member Vishakha had already organised a whole host of meetings for us including an interview and photo shooting with a local TV station, a visit to the Center of Gandhian Art of Living at MGM, meetings with the collector and CEO Zilla Parishad to get tips on which villages to visit and much more. Vishakha found the right cycle service to get Kalyan’s new side stand put onto the cycle and she also brought four more papers with her in which articles about us had been printed in the past days. She even manages to talk the Head of MTDC (Maharashtra Tourism Department) into returning the 100 km he is away to Aurangabad in order to meet us because we mean to leave next morning. By the time he arrives with his kids at our hotel at 11 pm we’ve changed plans again and he seems slightly annoyed.

Weather: hot, hot, hot

Cycled: none

Didn't cycle: inner-city auto rikshaws

Ate & drank on Day 15:
We’ve become serious cookie monsters in the meantime. Whenever we’re missing out on a normal meal, we have cookies instead. Gotta change that!!!
12:30 pm: jeera alu (potato with cumin) and rice (W), roti, egg burghi, cashew curry and a cold Thums up (K), H2O
inbetween: more cookies, nuts, H2O
7 pm: sandwiches in the lobby of the hotel over a meeting, H2O, chai
9/11 pm: egg birianhi, buttermilk (W), roti, paneer butter masala, alu ghobi, thums up (K)

Ate & drank on Day 16:
10 am: egg burghi and butter toast
inbetween: Pepsi Cola and nuts
3 pm: the famous vegetable sandwich from MGM college parceled for us to eat on our way to the collector’s office, H2O
9:30 pm: beer, papads, peanuts

Highlight of the day: seeing how Sarees are traditionally made

Health Check: Wiebke’s cough is getting worse, fever comes back too.

Stayed at: back at Hotel Sahara for 900 rs/night

Today’s photos