Many of the seasoned travelers I met chose to bring their own cocoon-style travel sheet.ĬHECK OUT INTREPID’S INDIA TRIPS AND EMBARK ON THE ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME Don’t expect privacy You’ll be provided with clean sheets that come in paper packets, blankets, and a pillow.
The accommodations aren’t spotless, but they aren’t dirty, either. With vinyl seats, metal walls and fluorescent lighting, it’s definitely not a design marvel, but I ended up getting a decent night’s sleep as the beds are actually quite sturdy. The ambiance on Indian trains falls somewhere on a sliding scale of slightly tattered to dorm room drab. READ MORE: THE MAGIC OF MOVING OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE IN INDIA Fellow train travelers always have the best food tips for each city, too! The thing all these experiences with local travelers have in common is the genuine interest about our journey across India, and desire to learn where we were all from. While it sometimes feels exhausting to take long trains, it’s hard to turn down homemade desserts!
Part of my group took the North India Revealed trip before I met up with them in the south, and told me about their shared meals and late-night conversation with a family sharing the quarters.
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Our group met a variety of passengers along the way, including a professional web developer who was traveling for work, and a young couple on holiday. There’s a chance you’ll be sharing a compartment with local travelers of either gender. Here’s what to expect on your own rail adventures across India: You’ll make new friends They were, however, equally quirky and rewarding immersive experiences, and I would gladly take the train again (now that I’m prepared). My overnight train journeys, both solo and as part of Intrepid’s South India Revealed trip, looked nothing like the cinematic masterpiece.
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Remember that scene where the impeccably-dressed steward brings the brothers sweet lime juice on a silver tray, and they sip while sitting on opulent orange upholstery? The movie is absolute eye candy. The camera pans across lush landscapes as the train with three troubled brothers slowly snakes through the Eastern Himalayas. I watched my favorite Wes Anderson movie, The Darjeeling Limited, on repeat prior to my first trip to India more than two years ago.
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