Rishikesh

Rishikesh is too close to Delhi, it throbs with crowds at the weekends. The upside is that lodge owners know that foreign tourists are more likely to stay all week so will offer you a daily rate which is a fraction of that Indians pay. The tourist spot is outside the town, and split over both sides of the river. The narrow bridges which link the two sides are wonderful examples of Indian chaos; just 1.8m wide the carriageway accomodates a bidirectional meandering of people, motorbikes, cows and monkeys... I would liken the process of crossing the bridge to diffusion