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Train journey number 2
Arrive at Dimapur train station with enough food to feed an army.
Navigate our way through hundreds of homeless people asleep on the platform.
Clamber up the stairs across the bridge to the other side.
Train arrives, embark into a dark curtained abyss to find no numbers on the seats and snoring people!
Finally find our compartments: Four bunks to a cabin with just a curtain across. Ann volunteers to take the bunk on its own in the corridor due to snoring and farting man and woman in 4 bunk area.
Put ear plugs in...... Does sleep come? No, too wired and the motion of the train is pushing me out the bed and the bed has a huge gap in the middle. Prison bunks must be more comfortable than this!
Try sleeping on my back the only way I can sleep, wake myself up snoring!
Awake now as the sun come up at 4:30 am, peek out my window and I'm at eye level with a platform so people can see me. Quickly shut curtains!
Just getting comfortable and hear a succession of chai, breakfast and coffee sellers all vying for our business (no free food on this train).
Curtain is roughly yanked open at a station where it seems like half the Indian army are doing security baggage checks, don't know why all the guards have to open my curtain.
Give up on sleep and devour a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Laugh at Jon who has six men sitting opposite doing their paperwork and trying to share his bed!
Justine blissfully unaware and comfortably asleep on her nirvana top bunk!
Sit back and enjoy the beautiful view from my window, it really is stunning countryside.
Mid morning it's now mayhem as girly boys clap their hands for money, every type of hawker known to man is selling their wares including: Chinese bombs, flip flops, lanterns, children's hats and games. 14 hours of this to enjoy!
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C walsh So glad you are having the trip of a life time, so many unusual memories to enjoy. Miss you my friend!!!!