Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Indian Train Experience

So a few days ago I had my first Indian train experience. The train was from Mumbai to Delhi and took approximately 24 hours. To save money I rode in the sleeper class, which has no air conditioning. This turned out to be a bad choice, considering the majority of the trip was through the desserts of Rajasthan and the temperature in the train had to be at least 100 degrees.

The extreme heat aside, it was a good experience. Tamir (who was also headed to Delhi) and I got the top bunks, so we did not have to deal with the confusion of the bottom bunk shuffle. The bottom 2 bunks fold down in to a bench, so when you are not sleeping people can sit. People who are riding stand-by sit on any open bench seat. This causes a bit of confusion and hassle when it is time to sleep or if you want your seat back after going to the bathroom.

A picture of the top bunk.


On the Indian train, everything is brought to you. Constantly. People walk down the isles selling different food and drink items the entire time, yelling the name of the item they are selling. You never really need to leave your bunk the entire train ride.

Unfortunately, none of our 4 bunk mates spoke English. They seemed confused that we were riding sleeper class in this extreme heat. They were all pretty nice, and I think the old guy felt protective of (or sorry for) me. I know this because when a street kid came in to ask me for money (thank you white skin), the old man not only yelled at the kid, but he also took off his shoe and threatened to hit the kid with it. If that is not bunk-mate love, I don’t know what is.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Try to get the 3rd AC tickets for your next train ride or you will get fried.

kshitij said...

I told you it was a bad choice :P

Carnage said...

Dude if you are going somewhere, Get an AC ticket or else .. ppl will crush you .. LOL ...

Indian Train network is so damn complicated .. its hard to understand and harder to get along ..

Anonymous said...

You write very well.

ayush said...
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ayush said...

I don't think it was a choice of regret because in one way or the other, it still was an experience. I hope you would have had a chance of travelling in the locals of Mumbai. The experience you got in a sleeper class might have been bad due to weather or some other reasons but it also showed you one of the many aspects of India which cannot be experienced while traveling AC. :)

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