Sunday, January 10, 2010

Wait a minute...

I just red what i wrote here earlier and i realized that it's quite funny how i suddenly find a 6h drive extremly long after travelling in Asia for up to 40h on trains and buses on the worst roads you can imagen. Not to think about the cages with chickens, constantly staring men, puking children and 3h long stops in the middle of nowhere without explanations; that you have to put up with. Here i freak out if the bus is 20 min late. Over there it's more likely the bus will be 3-6 h late. But i guess everything is different when you're home, back in the punctual reality.

Sleeping bed. Your lucky if you get the top one because if you don't you'll probably end up having illegal train riders sitting on you during the night.

Hours after hours of constantly staring men.
Don't be blond in india.


We arrived in Delhi on my birthday after a 40h train ride (not the same as above). This time we acctually ended up next to a nice Indian familly. I think both of the young girls got a crush on Chris.

Chinese trains are an upgrade. People are serving you tea and classical music is playing in the morning.

My favourite busrides is the one on the top of buses, like here in Nepal. The most thrilling ones are also the most dangerous ones. Nepal have the most bus accidents per capita in the world.

The roads in western Tibet is not great. Count
on getting at least 5h late.


Chris looks happy but this is probably the worst busride i've ever done. 35 h on a horrible, dirty, bumby bus going from 1200m above sealevel in western China to 5200m in western Tibet. A German guy died doing this illegal trip the year before. I had never herd about altitiude sickness. I have now.

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