Picked up from the hotel by the grumpy taxi driver - not a happy chappy! Were dropped at the Varanasi roadways bus station to start a very long and dusty bus journey to Sonauli. Unless you have experienced the local bus journeys in India, it is really hard to appreciate what a 10 hour journey feels like! It only cost 172 Rps (about 2 GBP), but was quite hard work. The first part of the journey was fine, but ended up having to change bus at Ghorkapur, which we didn't really understand and finally got the message after the guy waved at us for the 10th time! Transferred onto a really busy bus with our big bags - was really crazy and busy! Had people climbing / sitting / standing / sleeping on our bags, were
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