Night buses. Just Don't.

Trip Start Feb 24, 2009
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Trip End Aug 19, 2009


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Sunday, June 7, 2009

Last night was best forgotten really.  Couldn't get a direct bus from Nepalgunj to Kathmandu, so got on one to Narangot (?) or somewhere, blindly trusting this nice guy who helped me (and bought me sweetcorn).  Turns out our bus didn't go there anyway, it went to Butwal.  Having NO idea where that was I got off the bus, and just looked lost until another nice man asked me where I was going, using all my Nepali skills I managed to say "Ma Kathmanduma Janchu" I'm going to Kathmandhu, at which point he laughed and started chatting away to me in perfect English before putting me on the right bus.  So far so good.

Except the bus stopped every 10 minutes.  So I couldn't get to sleep.  Then when I did get to sleep we stopped for dinner, at midnight.  "No I don't want rice, I want to sleep".  Then at 2am we stopped to unload vegetables at a market somewhere, but the market was flooded and so the bus got stuck in a stinking swamp of rotten veggies and mud.  And THEN the evil guy next to me decided that me being finally asleep was a great time to start trying to touch my leg, lean his head on my shoulder, play footsie with me, and generally be an annoying pervert.  So I punched him in the arm.  He stopped.

Night buses......grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
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