Leaving India
Trip Start
Sep 19, 2007
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Trip End
Jan 19, 2008
Gorakhpur,
India
Thursday, October 25, 2007
finally after we took a rickshaw and went through all the back streets, we arrived to the station about 40 minutes before and our train was nowhere to be found. It was 2 hours delayed, i think. I was so tired that i was really falling sleep everywhere.
We finally took the train and I had a lower berth and chiel an upper one. In this train there was only one sleeper class wagon, the rest was all second class, that means that people might have a ticket or not and they just seat in whatever space they might find.
You could see many poor people on this train, and even on our carriage, i found one guy sleeping on the floor during the night.
When i woke up they were already seating on my seat, because i had the lower berth, and after a little while they asked me if i was going to get up because they were people who wanted to seat. I felt sorry because many people might have spent the whole night standing or seating by the toilets, or on the floor.
So i got up and lots of people sat there. Anyway after a while they all starting having a really serious argument, or so i understood, because i could only hear the name of countries.
We arrived to Gorakphur and took a bus directly to Sornauli, that is the border point to katmandhu. I spent the whole three or four hours sleeping, but poor chiel was awake and did not have enough space for his legs. I think that the first part of the bus ride was a detour to pick the driver's friend, because we were driving on a road which was smaller than the bus itself. That's why i decided to fall sleep, i did not want to see more really....
