At around 11:30am we started driving back towards Manu, following the same route we took to come to Agartala. We drove in a convoy till the Manu check-post. The roads further up were not in the best of conditions and after a few kilometres the ghat section began. This was another disadvantage as far as time was concerned. Sometime in the evening we came across a huge jam that had been caused because of an accident ahead. This delayed us further by around an hour and a half. As the traffic cleared we started driving again, however it had begun to drizzle and it was dark so it wasn’t easy to maintain a constant pace. About 300km remained to our destination when we hit a very bad patch of road. There were big ditches with slush which made it difficult for the cars to go across. At one particularly steep ditch the Ikons made it across with great difficulty, scraping the underbody of the car. The Fiesta support car, however, got stuck in the slush and it took around two hours to haul it out. After another few kilometres, the ghats began, and they were potholed all the way. We finally reached Aizwal at around 6:00am. The stretch was one of the longest and most tiring. On filling up both the cars the first Ikon gave 23.75kpl and the second Ikon gave 18.30kpl.