Finally in Varanasi

Charly freezing on train from Agra to Varanasi

The train journey was nowhere near as comfortable as the previous one as we were in ‘Sleeper Class’ which is lower than third class!

Station retirement rooms

More poo cakes

Agra train station, jobs going for rubbish collectors !

Charly' interview smile

It was freezing cold and no one would give us any blankets to use so we used our thin travel towels and shivered to sleep.

Nice clean village by train track

But then after a restless sleep we finally made it to Varanasi. It wasn’t at all what we had expected. We knew that it was a big city so prepared ourselves as best as we could, but to be honest it was a right hole.

More pollution on the Ganges

Boating on the Ganges

Bathing in the Ganges, nice !

After taking a rick-shaw and a very long walk we gladly found our hotel, had something to eat and fall fast asleep even though it was only 3pm in the afternoon.

Chilling in our lovely room with mice, rats, lizards and mozzies

Our lovely room ?!

When we had woken up we discovered that a monkey had been into our room through our windows and stolen all our cigarettes as well as a candle! Then not much later we saw a tiny mouse run across our room, shortly followed by a huge rat! Our room to be honest fits right into Varanasi; just take a look at the photos! There are also tons of mosquitoes which have even bitten me a few times on my face and loads of lizards which we don’t mind as much and even a cow in the front room!

The cow that followed us into our hotel, honest !

But regardless of all that we have an amazing view and stayed in watching films in the evening on our laptop.

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chrischarly on December 29, 2010 from Lucknow, India

from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Indian Odyssey

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