Arrive into Delhi at midnight - it's still hot, but bearable. Unbelievable amounts of activity still at the airport, dust everywhere, mixing with the exhausts for a distinctive choking cocktail. Good news however is that it's not as bad as previously - as the buses and 'tuk-tuks' (3 wheeler mini taxis) all now use natural gas, plus a metro is being built and Delhi has been demoted from the top 10 most polluted.
Spend the next 15 hours in a bit of a twilight zone of stillness and calm, escaping the heat of the day before anyone else seems to turn up, but finally our group gets together - 11, and you can tell immediately a good bunch to do the first 2 weeks with. Bikes arrive - they seem good - but the heat is fierce (around 30C in mid afternoon) and it's difficult to work out how tough that will make this.
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