Hell train
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Woke up early to be ready for 11am train to Satna, but guess ... It was late by 2 hours :)
But theres more..Allahabad was so hot and humid, i think it was around 42c! I was sweating like never in my life, I was totally wet! No joke.
That's cool as long as I get place to sleep on train. But guess.. No! For this you need to know how indian system of selling train tickets works, if no accomodation (bed) is available they sell waiting list ticket, which means that if someone cancells a ticket the 1st waitning list gets his accomodation. Now it's wacation time in india so tickets are quite inpossible to obtain. I bought mine 10 days before , it was waiting list and hoped to get through, but didn't. 22 hours of travel without even place to sit! But.. I'm in India. And hospitality of Indians is totally unbelievable. Eventhough the train was packed I was offered place to sit, and at the night one nice man even gave me his bench so i could sleep, he himself slept on the same bench with his wife! Could you believe this!? And they were really nice , too bad they didn't speak much English.
Travelling in Indian trains is experience by itself. The trains are so amazingly crowded, people are everywhere, sleeping on the floor, near the doors, naked children running all over, mothers breasfeed their babies. Sometimes it really too much, luckily i have diskman to disconnect from all this.
But after all, 4 hours late I arrived to New Jalpalguiri, rented a room, had a good dinner and went to sleep.
Woke up early to be ready for 11am train to Satna, but guess ... It was late by 2 hours :)
But theres more..Allahabad was so hot and humid, i think it was around 42c! I was sweating like never in my life, I was totally wet! No joke.
That's cool as long as I get place to sleep on train. But guess.. No! For this you need to know how indian system of selling train tickets works, if no accomodation (bed) is available they sell waiting list ticket, which means that if someone cancells a ticket the 1st waitning list gets his accomodation. Now it's wacation time in india so tickets are quite inpossible to obtain. I bought mine 10 days before , it was waiting list and hoped to get through, but didn't. 22 hours of travel without even place to sit! But.. I'm in India. And hospitality of Indians is totally unbelievable. Eventhough the train was packed I was offered place to sit, and at the night one nice man even gave me his bench so i could sleep, he himself slept on the same bench with his wife! Could you believe this!? And they were really nice , too bad they didn't speak much English.
Travelling in Indian trains is experience by itself. The trains are so amazingly crowded, people are everywhere, sleeping on the floor, near the doors, naked children running all over, mothers breasfeed their babies. Sometimes it really too much, luckily i have diskman to disconnect from all this.
But after all, 4 hours late I arrived to New Jalpalguiri, rented a room, had a good dinner and went to sleep.