Day 630 - Kickin' it in Kolkata

We woke up on the train for our second morning in a row after not getting much sleep at all - Indian train etiquette requires you to make as much noise as possible during the night by shouting into cell phones, yelling down to your friends down the carriage and spitting an hoiking as often as you can. Nice sounds to accompany our dreams ...

We rolled into Kolkata 3 hours behind schedule (not bad really considering we been on the train for 2 whole nights), and set off to the Bangladesh High Commission. Turns out that while we were rolling on the train, Border Guards and the army had a bit of a skirmish with open fire in Dhaka - this compounded with the excessive $200 each for a visa and the fact we're ready to leave the Indian sub-continent, made our decision to skip Bangladesh and head straight to Bangkok.

The only kind of sightseeing we did in Kolkata was wandering the streets where we witnessed the dying generation of man-powered rickshaws roaming the streets.

As we have another train tonight (yes, we enjoy punishing ourselves - we might get a shower and a bed tomorrow night, 5 nights after our last one!), we spent the day organising trains to met some friends for a few days and our plane outa here!!

We made it to the train station witnessing an awesome sunset as our bus cruised over the bridge, but the enjoyment factor was crushed when we realised our passports were gone. With only one place they could be we forked out for a taxi to take us back to town to pick them up! We made it back to the station with plenty of time for a quick feed, and soon we were rolling out of Kolkata.

Adlibing tickets.