Thursday, September 13, 2007

From Varanasi to Darjeeling

Almost 50 hours of journey!!! Thanks to Mahananda Express!
Our train was supposed to come at 9 pm, but had 18 hours delay!!! The railway station was outside Varanasi so we arrived there 6 hours in advance cos we thought it could be a nice place to see. Actually it turned out to be a long street with many shops and nothing more! No hotels, no restaurants, nothing...
First we were told our train was ONLY 10 hours late, so we decided to spend the night at the station... Then in the morning we were said the delay is 18 hours! You can imagine how pissed off we were! But what could we do? Nothing except waiting , waiting and waiting... Finally 3pm, when our train arrived! Then another 20 hours in train and we got to Siliguri, from where we took a Jeep to Darjeeling, 3 hours... It was around 50 hours door to door. Dirty, hungry and extremely tired we finally reached our hotel. Ufff!!!! After shower we felt like reborn!!!

But we saw some nice things on the way...




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