Hotel Holiday Resort Patna
Nageshwar Colony, Boring Road Patna, Bihar, India
Travel Blogs Nearby
Our first go on the Indian Rails
... the train throughout the night. I have no idea where they kept going, but they'd come back periodically and say hi to us, check on us, and sit on the bed across from us. So for the night Jasper and I actually achieved sleep with both of us on the same single bed. With our heads at opposite ends, Jasper had one of his legs across my chest with the other laying by my head. I had one leg beside his head with the other foot resting on the small ...
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 - ...
Patna Pottering
... year, and to check a few things out. We then order our first Indian meal in about 2 weeks. Dahl, rice, Dum Aloo Kashmiri, and vegetable Jalfrezi lovely. We tentatively ask for and receive tea to finish. It isn't great tea, but it is tea normal service has been resumed!!!
We now feel really really tired and make our way back to the hotel where we rest and get ready for an early start tomorrow. We have a 7.30am train to our next destination ...
9 hole fever
... hit me, and got progressively worse, through a quiet dinner of Chinese, through the walk back to the station, I was feeling like ****, and it only got bad from there. At the station, all I wanted was to sleep, to have the cooling, caring hand of someone on my brow, to drink some tea, but here we were, in a dirty old station, watching a ****** movie waiting for a crowded train for the third night in a row without a shower. It's all part of the deal. Tomorrow will be a better day. ...
Trip of Death
... so we buy two tickets in general seating, 75 cents each! Have you ever seen a video or picture of a train in India where people are stuffed into a train like sardines and hanging out every door and window...well that is general seating. There was a huge hassle to find the right train, conductors directed us the wrong way, the electronic sign board gave the wrong platform, but finally we got to the correct platform and joined ...


