Day 53

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Created on Monday, 02 November 2015 12:10

27.10.2015 Gangaw - Mandalay (Myanmar)

From the northern highland there were 211 miles to go to Madalay , the center of Myanmar. The ride was quite unspectacular ,at the beginning were rugged mountain passes , later the roads became better.

Therefore today a lot of pictures.

Lunchtime

Road construction in Myanmar

Here the oxcarts still belongs to the everyday street scene.

transport vehicle

Currently, it is election campaign in Myanmar

Temple and pagoda.

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Day 52

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Created on Monday, 02 November 2015 11:54

10/26/2015 Imphal (India) - Gangaw (Myanmar)

After a short night we started at 5am towards the border India/Myanmar, where we made an appointment between 8pm and 9pm with Win from the travelagency 'Burma Sense'. We expected worst road conditions, but these 62 miles were among the best we experienced of Indian roads.

The region Manipur is a conflict area, therefore every 9-12 miles there was a police checkpoint, where our passports and vehicle data were controlled. There our Deloreans were desired foto motifs.

Around half past eight we reached the border, where Win already was waiting for us. The India exit was done quickly, for the entry to Myanmar the agency already had prepared everything.

Altogether we have four guides, Win from the agency, travel guide AK, a driver and an officer from the tourism ministry (thats the rule).

Today we covered a distance of approx. 174 miles to the mountain village Gangaw, first over well constructed roads, later over dusty potholed tracks.

Last week the planned route was still not driveable, because four bridges were destroyed by flood. Within the last days two of the bridges were repaired and over two rivers temporary bridges were built, here the passage was adventurous but possible after the recovery of a minibus which was stucked.

Around 7pm we reached our hotel, the Deloreans are covered with a thick layer of dust because of the unsurfaced shoulders and many sites.

At the end of the day the World Tour Team had a tasty Myanmar-beer.

The first impressions of Myanmar: simple, but more colorful and cleaner than India. And of course great landscapes.

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Day 51

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Created on Wednesday, 28 October 2015 14:32

10/25/2015 Imphal (Indien)

Two hours maintanance for the Deloreans

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Day 50

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Created on Wednesday, 28 October 2015 14:29

10/24/2015 Guwahati - Imphal (India)

Today's route on day 50 of our world tour was quite long, 300 miles. Therefore we started at 7am in the morning with the DeLoreans and made our way. The hotel manager knew allegedly the stretch; he meant that 9-10 hours would be possible. The first 130 miles went well; we quickly came over on four-lane 'highways'. To run across cars, people and animals in the same lane, became accustomed to us.

Then the road led into the highlands, a scenic great serpentine route, if it were not for the deteriorating pothole roads. Following the motto 'From Bad to Worse' the way was for another 40 km so bad that with difficulty we reached a 16 mile/h-average. We drove through places built in steep hillsides, but it is simply unimaginable in what a terrible condition the roads are there.

We had been prepared for a late arrival at dusk on the day-target, when suddenly we were at a roadblock and we were not allowed to continue. Somehow we knew that already...

The senior police officer told us that due to political measures the journey to Imphal (currently around 65 miles from our position) is not possible until 12pm. At the checkpoint already 40 to 50 more cars and buses waited to continue their journey and for another night rally we were definitely not in the mood.

We explained our situation about the world tour, a tight schedule, an urgent appointment on the border with Myanmar and so on. The official then telephoned with his supervisor, he sent pictures of our India visas to the officer in charge of the blocking. An hour later the impossible became true and we were permitted to proceed. To be sure that we really get through and there are no held back on further police posts, a police escort accompanied us.

For the 65 miles atrocious road with the police jeep in front of us we needed nearly 3.5 hours and arrived at 9:15pm at our destination Imphal, albeit by a total of 14 hours rate 'On the Road'.

There is a 10-minute video of the Delorean on the Indian 'Highway'

https://youtu.be/NwmsDHZVGHQ

Day 49

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Created on Wednesday, 28 October 2015 14:06

23.10.2015 Alipurduar - Guwahati (India)

About, for Indian relations, well constructed roads we covered the 205 miles from Alipurduar to Guwahati in approx. five hours.

All of this can drive towards the own lane on an Indian highway:

Then we had an accident...
A biker passed André, made a swerve to the left, crashed against the Delorean, at that teared the exterior mirror off and tipped over. In such situations you should never stop as a foreigner, but drive on to the next cop or police office. But already in the next place a police petrol waited for us, the bad lucked rider probably have called there. The officers escorted us to the next police station and there in the
office of the chief of police, where shortly after also arrived the motorcyclist. This one and his pillion rider first made a show about injury and showed indignantly various abrasions. But what they didn't
expect, were our always running dashcams!
Wolfgang's cam recorded the complete accident, and after the presentation of the film the chief of the police was on our side, and the driver who was moaning just now was right meekly.
Finally all participants shaked hands and that's it.
Conclusion:The idea with the dashcams has paid off, without an evidence we wouldn't have gotten off so lightly!

Here is the proof video: