We got a night train from Varanasi to Gorakpur (north India, on our way to the boader with Nepal). The people in Varanasi train station must have know we were to be leaving India because they pulled out all the stops to give us an extra 'special' send off......late train, begging by the poorliest children we've ever seen, so much staring, drunks, people wanting photos of us, constant ''hello, where are you from?''.....we were even sketched by somone. We were warn out afterwards! 3 hour chicken bus north from Gorakpur to Sunauli, the boarder town between India and Nepal. It's like a big truck stop so we didn't linger. Got stamped out of India by the arrogant, sour faced Indian Immigration Officials and then stamped into Nepal by the smiling, welcoming Nepalese Immigration Officials......we liked Nepal
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