Hotel Chanakya Patna
Beer Chand Patel Marg Patna, Bihar, 800001, India
Travel Blogs Nearby
Our first go on the Indian Rails
... to the wall. I wish I had a picture of it. It may sound
ridiculous and very uncomfortable, but after the buses of Nepal.... This was HEAVEN!
Around 6am one of the Indians came back and politely kicked Jasper out of the bed and said he hadn't slept much. After our semi-illegal 17 hour train ride we got to Varanasi. We thanked the Indians who gave up their beds and a proper nights rest profusely and were on our way to the holiest city of India.
...
Maoist rebels
... by 8.30. Got tickets on the train to Hajipur jn and the plan was to then do a short rickshaw ride into Patna and then get another train to Gaya. But our first train trip, that was meant to be 4-5 hours, took a bit longer than expected. Approx 20km from Hajipur we stopped. The Maoists had blown up the railway line a little further on than Hajipur and all the trains were backed up - ...
Varanassi to Patna (refuelling stop)
October 12 2010. Yet another early start! On the way to the airport, we passed lots of children making their way to school on various modes of transport – some had even hitched a ride in the bucket of a JCB bulldozer! Once there, and after a short wait for security to open, we
were soon out with the 'plane getting it ready for the hop to Patna. Away by ...
9 hole fever
Patna was quiet. Thank the lord, some quiet. At three thirty AM, one would expect it to be. We woke thee sleepy cloakroom attendant and checked our bags to walk through the sleepy city to the Ganges in time for sunrise. We walked through the haunting streets, finding signs of life everywhere we looked. The buildings slept, the rickshaw drivers curled up in or on or beside their rickshaws, people in makeshift lean-to's or in tents or simply wrapped like a corpse in ...
Trip of Death
After learning about the strikes in Eastern Nepal our bus to Darjeeling took a big detour. In short, the planned 12 hour bus ended up being an early morning horse buggy, then a bus, then another horse buggy, a border, two more buses, an army escort, a train, and finally a hour jeep; adding up to 35 hours of sleepless travel...ugh! It was such an adventure we decided to make it, it's own blog post. But we'll start back at ...
This hotel was formerly known as: Chanakya



