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A 12 Hour Bus Ride

5/27/2014

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I survived the 12 hour bus ride from Delhi to Dharamsala! It was fine, in truth. I fitfully slept through most of it.

Stopping for dinner was the only actual adventure. We pulled into an intimidating rest stop area. It was particularly fragrant thanks to the over-used and under-cleaned toilets. Along with the toilets, the rest of the area was a restaurant. Not a very clean restaurant, either... The back was a kitchen, with people everywhere. I had no idea how this whole thing worked, so I stood back and watched for a while. I finally sat next to a lovely English woman. We waited for a while and then a man came over an spoke very quickly and (to us) unintelligibly. We hopefully indicated that we wanted some food. A few minutes later some food arrived. It was surprisingly good, daal (lentils) and naan (flat bread). A bill for ₹200 ($3.40) showed up next. As it happened, we were sitting next to a female monk and she immediately complained it was too expensive. The bill was whisked away and came back as ₹170 ($2.90) for no obvious reason. We paid our bill, but the monk lady went up to haggle a lower price. She came back happy, having only paid ₹120 ($2). The whole experience was rather intimidating and I was quite glad to be back on the bus.
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