I have heard many stories about the trains here in India. Even the agent who sold us our tickets said "you have not been to India till you ride the train." He was right. We got to the station where I was glad to find that my ATM card did work. I guess it was just a small bank the first time. The station was a mad house people everywhere. It took us a bit to find our train and all, but not too bad.
We board the train and we are super lucky to have a super cool couple sharing our seats. Moni and Monica they were from Israel. They have been in India for about a year. They had lots of info to share with us. Anyway our train was from 2p.m. to 8a.m. then next morning...about
18hours. Well we didn't get to Varanasi till 12 in the afternoon. It ended up being about 23 hours or so. The funny thing was that it was all that bad. There were periods of time where the train stopped in the middle of no where for hours at a time for no reason, but we just went with it.
A few things on the train could have gone a little better but nothing was too bad. There was an old old man I mean at least 100 sitting close to us. He was moaning the whole trip. It sounded like he was dying...it was really sad. I will come back to him in my next post. Also I was a little bothered by the way that the Indian men stare at women (western women). Time after time men would come up and sit across from Monica and just stare at her. I mean 2ft away and staring with out looking away. Several times Moni and Monica both had to yell at the men and make them leave. Those are really the only things that I would have changed on the train journey. The rest was a good experience.
We board the train and we are super lucky to have a super cool couple sharing our seats. Moni and Monica they were from Israel. They have been in India for about a year. They had lots of info to share with us. Anyway our train was from 2p.m. to 8a.m. then next morning...about
18hours. Well we didn't get to Varanasi till 12 in the afternoon. It ended up being about 23 hours or so. The funny thing was that it was all that bad. There were periods of time where the train stopped in the middle of no where for hours at a time for no reason, but we just went with it.A few things on the train could have gone a little better but nothing was too bad. There was an old old man I mean at least 100 sitting close to us. He was moaning the whole trip. It sounded like he was dying...it was really sad. I will come back to him in my next post. Also I was a little bothered by the way that the Indian men stare at women (western women). Time after time men would come up and sit across from Monica and just stare at her. I mean 2ft away and staring with out looking away. Several times Moni and Monica both had to yell at the men and make them leave. Those are really the only things that I would have changed on the train journey. The rest was a good experience.
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How amazing! I so wish we could be there with you! The train is crazy, but at least it is crazy. ...did I mention crazy! Chai, chai, happy birthday chai!
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