Feeling very smug about having not much to do this morning and a nice hotel to do it in, we spent a lazy morning sorting things out and watching cheesy films before heading off on our first solo adventure - catching the train from Delhi to Ramnagar.
We got our own cab and arrived at New Delhi station in good time - so far, so good. Then it all somewhat fell apart when we discovered that our train left from Old Delhi station (45 minutes away we were told) in an hour's time. Whoops! After some skilled negotiation with a cabby (well actually they shouted quite a lot, waved their arms in the air, asked for money and we just got in the dodgiest looking cab ever and hoped for the best) we did actually arrive at Old Delhi Station, life and limb intact and still in time for our train.
OD station is a sight to behold - quite shocking even to the many Indian tourists we have met from other parts of the country. All human (and much animal) life is there in very close quarters. Despite this, once placed skilfully exactly outside where our carriage would be on the platform, we also negotiated getting bags and children on to the train and into our berths without incident, and the train journey was very easy and quite pleasant. We were sat by a very pleasant Indian man and his inadvertently hilarious wife who looked just like an Indian character from The Simpsons and farted her way noisily (but thankfully, odourlessly) throughout the entire journey.
Rather late, we arrived back at Corbett national park for our few days of relaxation and peace in the countryside, to be told that we had to be up at 5.30am for our first jeep safari!! Ho Hum….
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