The Mad Adventures of Zach and Robynn: India, Part दो (That means two)

Obligatory comment about how I'm the worst at updating. I actually wrote a bunch of stuff, thought I posted it and it somehow disappeared, so I gave up for a bit. There were pictures and everything, it's very sad. But I'm feeling motivated again so let's see what happens.

It's been an interesting few months. Nepal is amazing, stuff happened. There's pics.

Oh, you wanted details? My bad. Okay, here we go.

So after the Taj Mahal, we thought "Hey, you know what's fun? A safari." So off we flew to Guwahati, which is in the North East of India, above Bangladesh.

We arrived in the evening, and loaded into another super tiny taxi to get to our hotel. Only there was a little problem. The hotel didn't exist. We drove around for what felt like hours and hours but was probably only two, asked a million people, nothing. We even found the building the place was supposed to be in, and still, no hotel. The location is a mystery even now.

On the bright side, there were other hotels open at 11pm and we did not have to stay squished in the taxi forever. Not that I'd mind a Donna pillow, but she might.

From Guwahati we took a train. I was really looking forward to this, because I've seen tons of photos of completely full trains and people riding on the roof and hanging out the door, and I wanted to know if it's an actual common thing. Turns out the answer is yes.

When our train arrived at the station, it hadn't even stopped before people were prying open the doors and climbing through the windows to get a seat. It was a madhouse. You'll be happy to know that we managed to get seats without going anywhere near the roof. You'll also be thrilled to know that the 4 hour trip cost 25 cents, which makes it the cheapest transportation I've ever taken.

And off to Manas National Park for our safari, where we'll ride elephants and see tigers and bears and... a pig. Oh, just the pig. No wait, there's a deer too. So maybe we got there a bit late in the day. The elephants were napping so we took a jeep instead. It was nice though, lots of trees and bushes, man with gun in the jeep to protect us from nonexistent tigers, and what may have been an elephant or a rhino or a large moving rock reallllllllllly far in the distance.

After that, we had this great plan to go to Darjeeling and ride the train up to the tea plantations and it was gonna be amazing. Instead, there was a little skirmish near the border and the locals decided to go on strike for some reason I'm not sure of, so we decided to skip the area since we couldn't get in anyway. Our cup overfloweth with practicality and common sense. So we headed to Nepal a bit early. And you'll have to read all about that later.

Pictures!