Gorakhpur If there is one message i would shout to the world at the top of my voice, it would be to avoid this hellhole at all costs. it took us about 3 hours to change american dollars at a bank, and they would not take pounds? or visa??... then we -by the grace of god- managed to secure berths on the train THAT evening to dehra dun, so we had one whole afternoon to kill in hell. thankfully we managed to somehow end up in some air conditioned hotel and basically sat there the entire afternoon, eating food and drinking sodas, until about 2 hours before our train left.. then the funniest thing happened.. a waiter came over to us stealthily and with a serious face and asked "do you want the booze?". all of
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