Unbelievable! This Hungarian cyclist has been held in an Indian hospital for 7 weeks already! – photos, videos

In the hospital, he was placed in an isolation room, so he could not even leave the building for two weeks. However, one night a thief got in and took his phone, laptop, and trousers in which he kept his money and his passport. He made a huge song and dance about it, and thanks to that the police found the perpetrator and got everything back, except for his passport which was burnt with his trousers. As a result, he became a local celebrity; newspapers wrote about him and his mission, but they

misspelt both his name and his country.

Afterwards, he remained alone in his hospital room and was allowed to take trips in the yard where all the garbage is thrown out and where dogs and boars regularly try to find some food to eat.

He says that they sometimes miss water or electricity, but the internet network is surprisingly good. People are kind, helpful, and bring him local delicacies. He thinks that

local people are bearing the restrictions well.

In contrast, he would like to continue his journey ASAP since he has “only” 520 kilometres to Darjeeling.

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He decided to follow in the footsteps of Sándor Kőrösi Csoma in 2014 with two of his friends, but they later changed their mind, so he remained the only one. He started out in 2019 from Transylvania and tried to follow the route of Kőrösi Csoma, but he sometimes had to modify it because of security reasons. He crossed the Pakistani border illegally, but local police did not mind. Indian authorities were not so permissive and wanted to put him on a plane home. The Hungarian embassy then helped him and stated that what he was doing was a mission.

He spent 28 days at the international department of a Pakistani prison where the meal was better than in the Indian hospital since, in the latter, there is only a vegetarian menu.

He has already completed 12,942 kilometres, mostly from his own money. He says that people in Pakistan and Iran are very kind, and many of them invited him to spend the night in their homes instead of his tent. BBC Persia even interviewed him, after which many locals recognised him and wanted to help.