There are many flights to Delhi from the rest of India and  while we near the end of our North India loop we have begun to get excited about spending Christmas on the beach. However, we still had one last  stop in the foothills of the Indian Himalaya. Rishikesh. Getting there proved rather uncomfortable for us as we could not find any private buses from Chandigarh to Rishikesh or nearby Haridwar and were forced to pile onto a government bus bursting with passengers for the next 7 hours.