{"id":19495,"date":"2014-03-24T18:14:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T12:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=19495"},"modified":"2014-10-28T12:34:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T07:04:28","slug":"day-29-navsari-to-bharuch-gujarat-kanyakumari-to-leh-cycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/travel\/day-29-navsari-to-bharuch-gujarat-kanyakumari-to-leh-cycling","title":{"rendered":"Day 29 – Navsari to Bharuch, Gujarat (Kanyakumari to Leh Cycling)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I left my lodge while it was still dark as I wanted to make it to Bharuch today before 12 noon. I had earlier planned to stay at Ankleshwar, which is ten kilometres before Bharuch (the Narmada River flows between them) but Bharuch attracted me a lot more after I read about it. It is the second oldest town in India after Varanasi.<\/p>\n

\"Speed<\/a>
Speed Cycling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A bridge known as Golden Bridge or Narmada Bridge joins the city of Ankleshwar and Bharuch. A policeman stopped me from taking its photograph. I was planning to stay in a Gurudwara at Bharuch. This was the first Gurudwara I came across during my whole journey so far. I always prefer to stay at a Gurudwara while traveling, as I get free food and most of the time, free accommodation as well if I take a room; otherwise, one can always stay in a hall.<\/p>\n

\"Gurudwara<\/a>
Chadar Saheb Gurudwara<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I reached the Gurudwara before noon and asked for a room. The manager told me that someone was staying in the room and it would get free by six in the evening. By that time, I had my lunch in the langar hall and had a bath. I was too tired, so I slept sitting on the chair. By 4 pm, I went outside to explore the city and returned in three hours. After again enquiring for the room, I was told that the person did not vacate the room and so I’d have to sleep in the hall. They’d give me a mattress to sleep on.<\/p>\n

\"Golden<\/a>
Golden Bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I thought that if I was having all the facilities available outside in the hall, I did not need a room. After having dinner at the langar, I slept in the open hall outside, with the Narmada River flowing some 200 metres from the Gurudwara. I was also bitten by mosquitoes in the night but it was alright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I left my lodge while it was still dark as I wanted to make it to Bharuch today before 12 noon. I had earlier planned to stay at Ankleshwar, which is ten kilometres before Bharuch (the Narmada River flows between them) but Bharuch attracted me a lot more after I read about it. It is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1285,"featured_media":36436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4474],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-travel","8":"category-unusual-india"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36440,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19495\/revisions\/36440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}