We've been traveling for days....

Ant and I wanted to very much see the smutty temples at Khajaraho. However, they are a major pain to get to. The nearest train is 4-6 hours away in Jhansi, a dump of a transit hub. Jhansi is also 21 hours by train from Mumbai, our last port of call.

Mumbai was fun, right to the end. We took one of the CRAZY hectic suburban trains to get to our station, Dadar. I feel like I didn't get off the suburban train, I was violently expelled. I feel like it squeezed me out like toothpaste out of a tube, but at 100 miles per hour. It was quite the experience. People were really helpful though and for once our backpacks were helpful rather than a hindrance. They created a buffer zone and acted as something heavy to heave at someone who wouldn't move.

Finally we boarded our train and got comfy, but not before I tripped over a piece of metal and hurt my ankle pretty bad. It's fine now, but I thought I was going to cry when I did it. :(

We met some really cool people on the train who we chatted with for much of the following day. They even fed us!! I'm sure Ant will discuss them in detail so I'll leave that to him. After much laughing and joking, we left them to camp out in Jhansi for the night.

Our hotel dude told us there were several buses to Khaj, the earliest at 5:30AM. Oh, how I WISH we had caught that one. It was right nearby, at the train station, and was an express to Khaj. But no, we didn't. We took a 9AM and we didn't arrive in Khaj until almost 4. Our asshole driver told us it was a direct bus, but no, there was a small 1.5 hour extra bus tacked on the end. Grrrrrr.

But anyway, we are here. It's a chill little town, and we have found a good hotel, a good restaurant, and our rickshaw driver was a chill little dude. Ant picked him because he was the least annoying. Tomorrow we will head out to the temples and I will take many many photos.

It's hard to imagine we are in the home stretch of India. I think I'm going to be sad when we actually leave now.