Day 301: Gwalior-Dhaulpur

It's getting harder and harder to get up in the morning at the prospect of being grilled alive most of the rest of the day.
But the highway was on four lanes soon after Gwalior and the good surface and no trucks coming in my direction on the left lane and forcing me off the road every now and then, allowed me a proper rythm  and good progress. But over thirty degrees before sunrise of yet another cloudless day means everything and everyone, not just me, will melt away. Naveen told me Agra and Dehli among other cities in, the north made the news because of the heat.
In Dhaulpur around half past nineI took a break, hid in the shadow and tried to chill. Sitting there I decided not to tackle the remaining fifty-something kilometres to complete the hundred-plus planned for the day and just look for a cool place to stay until tomorrow.
The hotel I chose was very cheap but unfortunately not so cool. During one of the power cuts the still hot air in the room made me sweat like in a sauna, so I went in the outside corridor where there was a little breeze to get some releave. While I was sitting there, all of a sudden a monkey came from nowhere and marched through the narrow corridor and passed centimetres in front of me. we looked at each other, none of us scared, but I was utterly perplexed. He must have though: "what are you looking at?!" and I thought: "don't bite me, wonderous creature!". When he reached the stairs he jumped on the handrail, sat there a moment before jumping on a window awning and from there in a fluid, effortless movement he reached the roof where he had come from.