Lonar Crater

My next stop bought a little extra excitement with it, and reminded me of travel in Eastern Africa. No one could really tell me how to get there. I knew I had to get a bus to a different bus station in the town I was starting off from, so that's what I did. After that no one knew whether there would be a direct bus or if I'd have to get more than one bus, or what sort of times any of these buses might be leaving.
Amazingly it was very simple. When I got to the next bus station, there was a bus leaving straight away and it was going all the way to Lonar.

In Lonar there is a crater formed be a meteorite that hit the earth there about 50,000 years ago. Now the crater is filled by a lake.

This was a place that I don't think many tourists visit. Everyone was very friendly, but all seemed quite surprised to see me. Even finding a hotel was a mission as none of the writing was evident in English. It turned out that not many of the people there spoke English either.

There were lots of hairy black pigs all around the town. In the absence of finding any restaurants or cafes I bought snacks wrapped in newspaper and tied up with cotton.

I had a very hot walk right around the top of the crater. The sun was so strong and there was almost completely no shade at all. I forgot to bring a hat so walked in style with my shirt on my head.