Day 300: Shivpuri-Gwalior

Sunrise barley started when I hit the road with an empty stomach. I counted on finding a breakfast place on the roadside, but ended up only with tea and water. Around nine, four hours later I stopped under a tree to cool down a bit, feeling dizzy. A couple of minutes later, it wasn't getting better, a guy from the temple across the road spotted me and waved me over. He pointed out that I, could lie down in front of the temple in the shade and then went about his prayers in a small pavilion standing opposite the temples door. Some men sitting on the steps of the temple pored me water to wash myself and then offered me tea. I sat down against a pillar and sipped tea with these three man who were about to prepare a chillum. It was very peaceful there with a little breeze easing the heat. For once I was not bothered with the same questions and they just let me rest and so I dozed off blissfully for almost an hour. The music and the muttered prayers grew distant and came back again.
My stomach was grumbling and so I did a couple of kilometres more before midday to reach the next truck-stop. And there I killed some six hours untli the sun was low enough to continue. However it takes the entire night to cool down the air a couple of degrees, the remaining fourty-something kilometres were hard and one more time I dropped completely exhausted in a bed somewhere in Gwalior.