It's 6 am and its the first day of our trip. We are going tripping 660 kms to Udaipur.
And this is the longest day of our trip. It's around 12 hours of riding time.
I don't even know if we are gonna make it all the way there.
Actually we have not booked anything. We don't have a hotel. We don't know where we are stopping.
We are just gonna let the road take us and decide where we stop and where we eat.
So here is how I pack. Everything is gonna be in these two panniers. I've included some of Gaurav's stuff.
I've got my helmet and my tank bag. That's it.
We are not overloaded.. and a tripod on the back there.
Look at this pollution guys!
What you are seeing is the level of pollution. It is off the meters, literally.
The meter stops at 999. October to December are the worst months each year..
So I always leave Delhi during this time.
The Pollution Control Board has launched a plan. So as the pollution rises, more restrictions start in Delhi.
like banning garbage burning and odd and even numbered car days.
But the real goal is to help farmers in Punjab and Haryana use other farming methods
rather than burning off their crops which is the number one contributor to air pollution in Delhi
Our first stop is in the middle of nowhere in Haryana to eat some paranthe (Indian flatbread).
That's breakfast. All I eat for breakfast is paranthe and masala chai, that's all.
Hey! I caught a guy doing a selfie with your bike. He was standing around the corner here...
Karl: Hey! Told you!
This is basically what you can expect on these small roadside dhabas or roadside restaurants here in India
You are only gonna find parantha and maybe a few kinds of vegetarian curries.
It's fine for me though.
And for my foreign friends, this white stuff is butter but it's homemade butter.
People in India make yogurt, they make cream, they make butter, they make ghee (clarified butter)..
they make it all at home out of milk from a buffalo or a cow.
That guy who I was chatting to, who took a selfie with Gaurav's bike.. I actually asked him where he was from and he is from Nepal.
And these guys come here, and from Bangladesh, and they work for even cheaper than what Indians work for.
And the guys that will work in these kind of restaurants, what will they be earning? Like 200 rupees a day?
Four dollars a day. So that's the Indian wage.
This guy is working for even less than that which is just insane.
I can't imagine to work for 200 rupees a day, let alone less than that. My God! Unbelievable.
Alright. We just passed Jaipur and we are on our way to Ajmer now.
And we got here way quicker than we thought we would. My God!
This road from Delhi to Jaipur is amazing. It is so smooth.
And there are so many superbikes going down this road.
We saw Ninjas, we saw HayaBusa.. we saw everything coming down this road. It was amazing so..
All these superbike clubs on Sundays.. they come and they ride this road because it is so good.
Yeah let's how long it takes us to get to Udaipur. Let's see if these roads continue.
We are in the Rajasthani desert in the middle of nowhere to get a drink
But they don't have any cold drinks here. What the hell is going on? Anyway...
Let me show you...
Let me show you a Rajasthani dhaba, a roadside restaurant.
So this is the eating area.
This is the ordering area where they don't have any cold drinks. What are they thinking?
So you come here, you order some lentil curry and flour bread and...
no cold drinks and they will serve you.
And just like in Punjab, people sit here on these kind of...
these beds and they call...hey what's the name of these in Hindi?
Khat, yeah. And these are called khat in Hindi.
And they are actually beds but in the middle of it, they put these trays so you can eat on this.
I'll try to sneak into the kitchen and show you. Let's see what happens.
This is the kitchen here, the "rasoighar"
Okay so all the ingredients are on the table here.
And this is what the last guy was eating.
We have got the chai on the boil.
Bhati as in.. dal bhati?
Worker: Bhati. Karl: Bhati, okay.
Karl: Okay.
Cook: New Zealand? Karl: Yeah, New Zealand.
Say "I'm good".
Young Boy: Say it quickly.
Those kids knew English. They were just too shy to say it to me. It's cute.
And what they are eating is...
One dish is called Sev Tomato and I don't know what that is. It's a...
Sev is like a savory fried snack and tomato is tomato.
So they mix it and must make some kind of curry.
I've seen it in Gujarat before and I'm gonna eat it in a couple of days actually.
But tthere they are called Sev usal or something like that.
And the other thing that they are making is Dal Bhati and this is our Rajasthani favorite. A classic Rajasthani dish.
If you are in Rajasthan, have dal bhati.
It's dal (lentil curry) along with bhati. What's bhati? Let me go ask Gaurav. One minute.
What is bhati, brother?
What bhati is.. it's a small round fried biscuit.
And I think it's made of the same type of flour roti is made of.
It's like that size and it's really crispy.
So you eat the bhati along with the dal.
13 hours later and we made it to Udaipur. My God!
We went for through the elements today.
So first, the Delhi pollution.
Secondly, the Rajasthani heat. It was so freaking hot.
And then the Rajasthani cold here at night during the winter.
But there is a bigger problem.
I forgot my chaddis. I forgot my underwear.
I had them packed and I don't know what happened.
They got left so...
I'm gonna have to go commando for the rest of the trip I guess... what to do..
I just bought new ones as well.. like five pack...