Spent today on the train to Puri which gets in a 3am tomorrow morning. Had a surprisingly good nights sleep. The train is very slow and frequently stops at stations for 10 or 20 minutes. Each time we stop lots of beggars and hawkers come onto the train – the street kids are the worst as they are really persistent and you’re not supposed to give them money as they are usually working for somebody else (like in Slumdog Millionaire). Spent lots of time looking at the countryside and listening to the ipod. Always something interesting to see from the window – never wilderness. Saw rice paddies, cows ploughing waterlogged fields, buses bursting with people (including on the roof!).
We ordered lunch on the train but it was pretty uninspiring and very messy – we had to sacrifice a bed sheet to stay clean. There are no bins on the train so we put our empty polystyrene trays in a pile as directed by an official but then he just pushed the whole pile out the door onto the tracks! Everybody just throws rubbish on the ground and assumes somebody will pick it up (to be fair, there often is somebody who picks it up, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there were people sweeping the tracks – it’s just not very clean).
Going to try and sleep a bit before we get to Puri but there are cockroaches in my bed. Louise still has a cold.
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