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Originally Posted by XetaGLGRocks I was looking more more of Sanjoy Guide! I am looking forward to the videos.
Excellent Travelogue.
I must also say that your photography skills have improved phenomenally over the years. |
The polite way of saying it wasn't good to begin with! But then, since you know me for all these years, I will happily take any view that you have regarding me. On the positive note, you say there is an improvement and so the direction is definitely right.
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Originally Posted by Saurabh M Very nice travelogue, loved every bit of it.
BTW, are those new Santa Fe's being tested? They are probably being tested for the worst road conditions or offroad conditions. Is the Toyota a LandCruiser? |
Yes that was the latest Landcruiser, although it has quite gone the Montero way as far as rugged appeal goes. But about these cars refer Sudipta-da's post.
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Originally Posted by Sudipto-S-Team I think the camels are for Eid sacrifice and the foreign cars are being driven for delivery to Nepal. |
Absolutely. I would like to add that some Japanese cars have been making their way into Bhutan through Calcutta since a long time. A garage near Ramkrishna Mission Hospital used to keep them in transit. Infact, in prehistoric times, a close relative of ours used to be involved with selling cars (Volga, Moskovitch, Mercedes etc) to Bhutan Nepal etc.
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Originally Posted by akroy Why no pics of the nice river bank next to the Palace?
Abhi |
River for you
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Originally Posted by gd1418 An excellant travelogue 1100, that had me glued from start to end. However my curiosity about the guide still remains unsatiated.. ![Smile](https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/images/smilies/smile.png) |
Ah! What an omission!
What if, you meet someone daily with the prospect of anything you say or do being drawn parallel with someone from history. Say, you just did something, and somebody gives you a lecture that Mirzafar did this with so and so. Then he would pull in stories from history drawing parallels with events. On two occasions, we savoured the experience of some local pulling his leg. One by asking "What was Sirajuddaulah doing on this sunday". The guide took it seriously for sometime, trying to chart up his knowledge base, when he found no match, he soon realised his leg was being pulled, then he just shoo-shoo-ed the person away. We enjoyed it, the person enjoyed it, the guide just grinding his own teeth, saying something like the person being an unknowledgable fool.
I too faced a little bit of his wrath, as he sensed that I was actually getting amusement out of him, although I was, but externally my sister told me I was actually keeping a serious face.
So most people try to avoid the bhasan, so give him the right of way, the path of least resistance you see.
A few car shots
Which one looks better, tyre out or tyre in (alloy visible)
Another riverbed shot
Although this involved a little bit of driving like this.
The deep tracks were created by Stallion 4X4 trucks, driving anyway else, would have scraped the underbelly.
However what the car had to endure going to Bahrampore, it wouldn't have mattered even if it did scrape here (as the soil in this case was actually soft)
The clutch was holding fine till the end. But on the very next day, driving the unladen car to office, the clutch wear was apparent, it was working mostly like on-off (without the advantage of weight slowing the progress). The brakes had become a lot better in response and bite over the 1900kms of usage.
Clutch and Rear Shockers have been fixed (Front ones checked out fine).
Car did not develop any body rattles, even if its not a tank.