On the platform a western women in all the 'india' gear started playing bongos, and she was shit....I think I am going to have to try and be more tolerant of 'traveller' people.....they just seem like a bunch of tossers, but I had long hair and wore beads once so........
We got on the train and realised our 2nd class, non air-con ticket was a rip-off - the man had charged us 5 x the actual price of the tickets... The train carriage was like a morgue, one open carriage with bunkbeds like book shelves and people lying everywhere (and it totally stunk as the toilet was close-by). Locked our bags to our "beds" and slept for what felt like 10 mins. Arrived at Mangalore at 4:30am - we had been told 7am so you can imagine how happy we were to be on the station in what felt like the middle of the night.
Saldly so many homeless people at the station and around the streets of Mangalore sleeping on any patch of ground they can.
People are eager to help - we stood about looking lost and lots of people came to our rescue. A few hours later we were on bus towards Mysore. 5 1/2 hours on a bus through the mountains that rattled and bounced around so much our arses left the seats - the roads here are mental, huge craters and we were amazed that the bus made it. Amazing scenery though, rice paddy fields and rural villages with dogs and pigs and little kids running around.....and always people have a smile, at first they just stare but if you smile at them they give you a big grin and wave.
Mysore is cool - went to a huge extravagant OTT Palace built in 1930's with materials imported from around the world. Also went to an amazing colourful market selling insense and oils. Cows just wander the streets, so many smells and smiley folk. We got accosted in the Palace grounds by a bunch of school-kids who surrounded us wanting to shake hands and ask "which country you from?". Some people asked us if they could take our photo - it felt that we were more of a tourist attraction than the actual Palace.
Off tomorrow for a few days in this rainforest retreat http://www.jungleretreat.com/ for some trekking action.
....still solid, Jo is a bit loose.....
1 comment:
This blog is keeping me very entertained during my lunch hour here in cold, grey London - keep it up! Am fascinated to know when the "solid" status changes. How long can you hold off the inevitable?...
Please don't take up the bongos.
Cal
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