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Delhi and 26 hour train adventure

We left Agra at about 9:30 am...hopped on a bus with comfy seats and traveled for about 5 hours back to Delhi.  The bus ride went swiftly and smoothly, surprisingly so when I consider the ride to Agra.  We arrived in Delhi and made our way back to the Pahraganj, found a cheap cheap room and ran down to the train station to try and get a ticket for the following morning. Unfortunatly we couldn't get our ticket for the day we wanted, but this ended up being okay because we had some business to take care of in Delhi and we weren't done at the train station unitl 5:30.  We ate on our favortie rooftop and went to bed early.  We woke up and took care of our business, which required us to walk and walk and walk, my calves are so sore.  We did walk through the poshest hotel I have seen here I was in shock.  I thought we had been swept away out of India for a second.  Everything was so lavish and nice and CLEAN, and all the workers were "yes, sir" "yes, madam".  It was bizarre and I felt very out of place in my dirt ass clothes and sweaty face.  After all this walking niether me nor Andy were able to exchange our plane tickets and I decided against buying a new Digital Camera here...they just weren't a good enough deal.  After all that we need the taste of home again, so we gorged ourselves at Pizza Hut and went home happy!

We boarded our train at 6:30 in the morning and were delighted with our new home for teh next 26 hours.  We were in 3 bunk A/C sleeper class.  This means that in each little area there are six bunks three on each side. WE are ina area with our new Freinds Joss and Deb, a nursing couple from England-though Deb is Isrish, and a sweet indian family with a beautiful, well behavied, big eyed little girl.  We all settle in for our journey. I am a littel upset  with the situation becuase I had really hoped to be able to sleep most of the time or at least be in a somewhat horizontal position, but because of the way the seats are it appears that eveyone sits on the bottom bunk-my bunk- until it is time to sleep...this makes me grumpy-imagine that-but about 8:30 the indian family decide to put up the middle bunk and climb in for a little nap...yea I get to sleep for about 2 hours which is really all I needed and then sit hunched in my little den for a few more hours.  We ate lunch on the train-the ususal dhal and rice-wouldn't want to change a good thing, and had several cups of chai throughout the journey in these darling eathenware cups. This train ride passes surprisingly fast.  Joss and Deb are great and we all became fast freinds,which is incredible, especailly considering my misanthropic (thanks amanda!) nature.  At about 9pm I turned  in and slept the whole night through.  and then it was over.  Just like that.  I mean I have to say, it was a bit anti-climatic...I thought it was going to be so much worse and feel so long...but really I was sad when it was over! We all piled into a jeep and started the 3 hour journey to Darjeeling at about 10 am and that is were you'll fnd me next! 

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