Swiss cyclists attacked in India
 

A Swiss couple were cycling to Agra & camping in Madhya Pradesh when they were attacked & robbed. The wife was gang raped and the husband beaten. Truly terrible.

Washington Post

Having just spent 3 1/2 months in India there aren't many spots I'd feel comfortable camping there. Someone will always find you, stare, chat, touch your stuff, touch you & of course sit on your bike whether its benign or not. This is doubly true across the north. I'm not saying they did anything wrong, we'd all love the world to be an open safe place. It's just very sad. Stay safe all.

Thats a really bad story :(

I hope the victims will find a way to life with what happens.

To try to hide you and your wild camp - or to ask officials for a place to stay when you are not able to find a hidden spot - maybe could help to avoid something like this.

Like i read in several news sections, the victims don`t seems to have done something wrong, they got detected as they enter an small forest - searching for a camp spot. The attackers enters the forest much later.

Surfy

Except for some very isolated places (of which there aren´t too many left in India) I would not wild-camp in that country. Seems no matter where you stop, there´s always some habitation within a stone throw distance, and they´ll soon know, that you are there. And usually it just leads to curious people coming to look at you, and do nothing. But in this extreme case, it unfortunately turned to something far more serious.

Note, that I´m NOT putting ANY blame to the victims. My only point is, that personally I would not feel comfortable being accompanied by strangers, and being stared at, when I´m on my camp. Some valuable items could also disappear, if you´re not careful, even if most of those people are 100% honest. And very cheap, if rather basic accommodation is to be found almost everywhere in warmer parts of Asia.

How very sad, thoughts are with the couple involved.