This book is the story of a journey by bicycle to India: through Western China, the mountains of Tibet and Nepal. The author overcame more than 5,000 kilometers and many trials - snowy roads, altitude sickness, severe coma and hallucinations. He visited the ominous Lamaist monasteries, the tomb of Jesus Christ, and underwent a ritual of getting rid of sins at the sacred Mount Kailash. In the second part of the book, the author describes his life in India: spiritual quests, attempts to master exotic professions, traveling on a retro motorcycle and the legendary Maharaja Express train "Grigory Kubatyan is a journalist and traveler who has visited more than 80 countries around the world. Full member of the Russian Geographical Society and regular author of the GEO magazine. Author of guidebooks and the book “Life on the Road” about hitchhiking to Australia and hot spots in Asia. From correspondence with the author of the book: - Hello, ... I was thinking of selling the book in electronic form, but the publisher is against it. They believe this will hurt sales. However, they cannot prevent readers from scanning the book. But personally, I’m not against it, since I generally support the free distribution of any content. And if there are no mistakes in the book, then that’s better. Moreover, sharing with fellow club members is a noble cause. (The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.