Maharaja Inn Hotel Patna
Station Road, Patna-1 Patna, Bihar, India
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Our first go on the Indian Rails
We had been told when we left Darjeeling that all the trains leaving West Bengal for the next few days were booked. I'd spoken to a few people on some of the "procedures" for travelling the trains in India so we left Darjeeling on the toy train anyway. The toy train meandered slowly down the mountain on a relaxing journey. It's slated as a world heritage site. It was nice, but I think if we weren't contained in a fog bank it would've been much nicer ...
Girl + Boy = A lot less unwanted attention!!
... at me, wondering what a little white girl was doing in 2nd class; the one time I stood up (7 hours = numb bum) I instantly regretted it - talk about hawk eyes. The best bit was when I got off at my stop - as soon as I pulled my backsack from under my seat and put it on, the group of women who'd been staring at me the last 2 hours suddenly changed expression; as if in respect.
As soon as I got off the train (aongst the hoards of people), a guy came and thrust ...
Big in India
... a U-shaped bend in a river, dating back more than 2,000 years. It's a showcase of astoundingly preserved stonework and paintings set in an amazing natural environment that was completely worth the nearly 6 hour round trip. Not that the trip was bad, it was actually part of the fun. Even the return, where we crammed ourselves into a bus with so little room left we could barely find a place to put our feet.
Day 2 took us to Ellora, possibly even ...
Caves, Caves and More Caves
... I had one guy walk right up to my face with his camera phone and take a picture. One guy came over with his son so he could shake my hand. I started talking to him and after approximately 30 seconds, there was a crowd of about 20 people stood round in a circle listening to the conversation. We must have posed for about 10 photographs today. The first was a giggling teenage girl as we left the internet ...
Travelling delights...
... fancied perching their bum cheeks on it! Woke up to the blaring racket of a teenage kid playing Indian bollywood music full blast on his mobile, to find two of these little squatters on my toes..at 2am!!
But still, travelling by train is fun, you get to chat to the families you share the seats with - they are all really curious about who we are, what we are doing, job?, married? etc etc. During this trip i got introduced ...


