Proper early morning today - we were riding well before 7am and we’d knocked off over 30km before breakfast a little after 8am. 

It’s still 23°C (73°F) at this time, but that’s way more comfortable than the 40°C it gets to by 1pm.  

We met a “road angel” today. Darshan, a local Ahmedabad cyclist who races for the Indian national team was kind enough to flag us down and give us a couple of bottles of water. They were most welcome in the hottest part of the day.  

Then we were heading into Ahmedabad itself. We’ve ridden through Bengaluru and Mumbai already, but the traffic in this comparatively small city was another level of crazy. We weaved our way through the maelstrom of autorickshaws, scooters and cars to finally make it to our hotel... and what a hotel. 

It’s a restored 200 year old building in the old part of Ahmedabad and it’s just gorgeous.