-- From Hyderabad to Bangalore

The 09/01 I started from the Golconda Fort to park in Salarjung Marg close to the entry of the museum eponym museum. On foot I went to the MPM Mall close to “General Post Office” (GPO) in Abids Circle, it gathers BigBazar, the ATM of my HSBC bank and a cybercafé. I should mention BigBazar offers few foodstuffs and the cybercafé accepts key USB but not the script of DOS commands to update of my website.
Then I visited the old Moslem city with the Char Minar, built in 1591 to mark the end of the epidemic of plague which saved Hyderabad, and the mosque of Mecca Masjid, started in 1614 and completed in 1692.
I left the city in the beginning of afternoon. In the suburbs I saw a panel indicating a cybercafé. I stopped there with happiness because I updated my website.
Finally around 16:30 I bivouacked on a service area little before Farrukhnagar.

The 10/01 was a driving day on road NH7 under construction of widening to four lanes. Its surface is correct without hole nor bump. The traffic of trucks in the two directions was very important. I found a bivouac on the carpark of a road restaurant, Dhaba, at about twenty kilometres from Dhone.

The 11/01 was still a connection stage towards Bangalore. No outstanding fact, if not the unfruitful looking for a cybercafé in Anantapur. The campsite was after Penukonda on a service area.

The 12/01 I visited the site of Lepakshi made up of a monolithic statue of the bull Nandi (vehicle of Shiva) at the entry of the village then the temple of Shiva in a double strengthened enclosure which has a linga (symbol representing the phallus of Shiva) shaded by a seven-headed cobra. After having lunch in ChikBallapur I moved towards Nandi Hills to spend there the long weekend before the appointment at Radials International in Bangalore to buy of the tyres.

The 13 and the 14/01 were two days of rest at the top of Nandi Hill, 1,479 meters high. The inhabitants of Bangalore and of the surroundings came spade-screwed under the tropical essence trees occupied by a multitude of pilferer monkeys.
Alas, Indians do not have an ecological behaviour. Everywhere they were only fatty papers, remainders of lunches, bags plastics, etc. The odour of India was tangible. Spices, incense and various dejections mixed in spite of the wind in altitude.

The 15/01 was one public holiday. I left Nandi Hills before the arrival of the local tourists. I turned over to Chikballapur to carry out purchases of food. I got informed there about the localization of KR Puram Railway Station where I arrived without difficulty. Alas, after it was slalom in the narrow streets of the supposed district where the deposit of Radials International was. In spite of the help of an Indian people I took more than one hour to find it.

I taken part of lunching in restaurant at the edge of the road (Dhaba), where trucks stopped, as in “the Truck Drivers” in France.
Moreover, I had noticed that some petrol pumps of Reliance had restaurants “A1 Plazza”. I stopped at one to ask for the booklet giving the list of the hundred A1 Plaza. Que nenni it does not exist. I thus rolled up the locations which interested me on the mural map at the office of the service area.
It would seem that Bharat has the same policy, to follow.

The target of the following week was to buy tires and especially to set up them, then to solve other technical problems.