01Day 01. Our journey started and ended at the India Gate in the center of New Delhi.02Day 01. The Jama Masjid Mosque in Old Delhi, which was completed in 1656, is the largest mosque in India.03Day 04. The dirt road that marks the Rohtang Pass, at 3,979 m (13,054 ft), in northern India. Knowing that the word rohtang means, pile of corpses, doesn’t fill you with confidence when you’re riding a motorcycle.04Day 06. Our support vehicle, the Mahindra Bolero, travels along dangerous roads as they twist and turn their way up towards the Saach Pass at 4,420 m (14,501 ft).05Day 07. Looking out over the lush and beautiful Chamba Valley in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh.06Day 08. The incredible Golden Temple at Amritsar, in Punjab, north-western India.07Day 08. Indian border guards at the Wagah border crossing with Pakistan near Amritsar.08Day 10. Two men ride on a camel-drawn cart along the highway north of Bikaner, in the western province of Rajasthan.09Day 10. Colin and Ryan struggle to smile while at the Karni Mata Temple, also known as the Rat Temple, in Deshnoke, Rajasthan.10Day 15. A man hitches a ride on the back of a jeep on the road to Vadodara in the western state of Gujarat.11Day 16. The landscape changes to lush green fields and mountains as our team approaches Nashik in Maharashtra.12Day 17. A pillion passenger struggles to keep control of his umbrella during torrential rain near Mumbai.13Day 18. Looking down on northern Mumbai from the 35th floor of a high-rise office tower.14Day 28. Watching the sun set on the beach at Kanyakumari at the southernmost tip of mainland India.15Day 30. The stunning pillars of the Hindu Sri Meenakshi Temple in Madurai, in the state of Tamil Nadu.16Day 30. A man is blessed by a holy elephant at the Sri Meenakshi Temple in Madurai.17Day 40. Fertilizing the crops growing on lush farmland north of Kolkata in the eastern state of West Bengal.18Day 43. Houses cling to the sides of the Lesser Himalaya mountains in Darjeeling, West Bengal.19Day 44. Women pick tea leaves at the Makaibari Tea Estates near Darjeeling20Day 48. A stupa – a mound-like structure containing Buddhist relics – at the Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya, in the northern state of Bihar.21Day 50. At sunrise, men and women mourn their dead and bathe in the River Ganges at Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, northern India.22Day 50. Ghats beside the River Ganges in Varanasi.23Day 53. A man takes a photograph of the Taj Mahal in Agra, Uttar Pradesh.24Day 54. After 54 days, we drove along the only really good – and, in parts, empty – road of the entire journey, the Yamuna Expressway, which runs for 165 km (102 miles) between Agra and Delhi.
