We left Birganj around 7.30am, this time on the Sundowners bus that was to take us all the way to London. Customs hassles took all of an hour, but this was mainly to check out the bus so in fact it was just free time for us paying passengers. Once again, the trip took us through some pretty dreary countryside. The occasional wells and mango orchards broke the monotony of rice fields and barren ground. We got our first view of the Ganges mid-afternoon – it was a sizable river, but we understood we would be seeing a lot more of it in the near future. We finally reached Patna, a large, busy but drab city, around 6pm, where we booked into the Hotel Aspara. Before alighting the bus, we had a period of ‘zoo-like’ entertainment
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