Delhi has been and eye opener, and hopefully it is what someone from the west should be expecting from the stories you hear. Everything is so surprising that eventually nothing comes as a surprise.
We boarded the Rajastani express, train 12424 at 14.00 from New Delhi to NJP to arrive at 10.00 in the morning, time to find a share jeep to Gangtok. The train itself was one of the best trains we were told, and to be honest it was very good. In 3rd AC sleeper 1800 rs we started off with lunch, then afternoon tea, followed by dinner and pudding. After a peaceful sleep we woken at 06.00 for tea and breakfast, a bit early but it allowed plenty of time for Jerry to hang him self outside the train to take some more amazing pictures. It was a bit like playing time crisis trying to get things in focus on the fast moving train, haha it was really fun.
Arriving in NJP was pretty intense, it was very hot that day, and Jerry straight away was befriended by young begining indian boy, he stayed with us for about 20mins until he was shewed away by the guys running to jeeps to Gangtok but he was quickly replaced by an old lady that very little vocab, stood by the car with her hand out and repeated "ah hello, hello, ah hello, hello" we drove away whilst she continued her chant. We ended up paying 250 rs a head for a 5 hour journey to Gangtok I think we overpaid, but it was money well spent, it was cramped and unconfortable but the scenery quickly let you forget those things.
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