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28th April 2006 - Day 28
Today was a very relaxing and chilled out day. Got up late and strolled down to the Ganga Field cafe for a late brunch. Where they throw together anything they have in the kitchen and serve it up. Sat around playing dominos for the rest of the afternoon. Met "Angel" the hippy lady again, whose had been travelling around India since Nov 2005. Spent the last evening eating in the lovely Madras cafe. Had a lovely Aloo Dom - which tasted like a Tikka Masala back home.
29th April 2006 - Day 29
What a horrible start to the day - woke up food poisoning, so much for a lovely meal last night!! But this is not the worst - have to travel to Varanasi today by train for 22 1/2 hours!!!! Was feeling very sick as were trekked across Rishikesh to catch the bus to the train station in Hardwar (an hours bus ride away). Arrived at the train station and boarded the train, we booked a non a/c sleeper - which was a bad idea considering i didn't feel well and considering our beds were on the top bunks - very cramped. The train was filled floor to ceiling with beds and people, like sardines in a tin. We had to lie with our big rucksacks at the end of our beds - which meant sleeping with crooked necks - very uncomfortable!!!
30th April 2006 - Day 30
Woke early after a very uncomfortable nights sleep. The train was now empty which meant we could sit for the rest of the journey with a view out of the window - which was much more pleasant. The journey seemed to go ok at first, we then realised that for some reason the train stopped every half an hour at nowhere in particular for no particular reason for about an hour - very strange. Arrived at Varanasi 2 1/2 hours late and very exhausted and sick. Were met by a 'friendly' tout who insisted we follow him to a rickshaw, which we did were very wary that he may drag us to an overpriced hotel where he get commission - but we were very insistant that we had booked already and managed to get him to take us to our hotel. (Although he did throughout the journey insist that the hotel we were staying at was very dodgy and in a bad area of Varanasi, where drug dealers hang out). Arrived at the hotel which was ok - basic but we were very tired and anything would have done. Very bad night! no sleep, the guy was right!!
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