sleeper to udaipur

on march 10 we commenced our whirlwind tour of rahjahstan (north-west state of india), agra (taj mahal) and dehli (capital). the day before we had been to see a lovely indian travel agent who informed us that our planned itinerary was ridiculous and we should do it his way. we said ok.

after a significant amount of confusion on the night of our scheduled departure, we ended up at a random metro bustop somewhere in bandra. we made a new friend who rang the bus for us and he said that everything was all good and the bus was coming. we were slightly sceptical. suprisingly, it did eventually arrive, and the (at least) four bus drivers kindly allowed us at least 10 seconds to embark the bus. our relief was brief; see photos below of first impressions of our sleeper. the extremely loud bollywood music started promptly. this was coupled with erratic indian driving, which involves honking the horn when overtaking/turning/reversing/when tailgating/stopping/starting. it is also not sufficient to have a normal horn in india. the bus' horn seemed to be an indian version of la cocharacha (we have also have observed reversing music such as 'santa claus is coming to town').

after 16 hours of travel on the bus (which had no toilet) we arrived in udaipur, where the james bond film 'octopussy' was shot.