yeah, it really was great.
apparently the tour also runs in reverse from kathmandu to delhi - but that seems crazy to me now.
The big Indian cities near the start were indescribably crazy. I was told before i went that i would love it and hate it at the same time and that makes a lot mroe sense to me now... but things seemed to really calm down and get more peacefull towards the end of the tour. I am not sure i would go back to the Indian cities in a hurry but the small town or Orchha was somewhere i could easily spend a week or two, as was most of Nepal out of Kathmandu (although kathmandu is quiet compared to Varanasi!!)
i was not looking forward to things like a 13 hour journey in a sleeper train... and it was very basic. but in the end that was probably the best nights sleep i had on the tour and i only spent two hours of it awake
