A full day on the train. Uneventful except for getting conned into buying dinner twice – hawkers dress in the same shirts as the official train staff and after we ordered dinner one of them came up and looked to be delivering it so we paid him. Later on the official guy came around and we realised our mistake – fortunately we had only ordered one dinner to share so it wasn’t too bad that we paid twice.
The landscape north of Mumbai is different from the south. For the first time we saw uncultivated land – dry and stubby hillocks like moorland. We’re due to arrive in Ahmedabad at 7am tomorrow. The Rough Guide describes it as “appallingly polluted, renowned for its dreadful congestion and repeated outbreaks of communal violence”. Should be fun!
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