Today we are getting a bus to Udaipur, which is an eight
hour journey away. Originally we were
supposed to be getting a train, but in all the hassle at Delhi station this was
the one train we couldn’t get a reservation for. So instead we are getting a private bus. Private busses are supposed to be faster and
more comfortable than state busses, but they do have reliability issues.
The timing of our trip is supposed to be the bus leaving at 13:30 and arriving in Udaipur at 22:00, giving us a leisurely morning to pack and do some more internet. The place from where the bus is leaving is a bit out of the way, vaguely described as opposite Sun and Moon tower, but the drop off organised by our hotel finds it, and there is a bus from our bus company there. However there is no driver. This is at 13:00, so by 13:15 we decide to call the company to find out what’s happening. This is where they then tell us that we should go to opposite some cinema for the pick-up.
So now we are in a frantic rickshaw dash to get our bus. We get to the place they told us to go to only to find no bus. After another phone call, and some helpful intervention from a passer-by (as we could no longer understand the guy on the other end of the phone) we end up back in another rickshaw, and back almost where we started. We were probably only 300m away the first time, but we had travelled about 5km around the city before getting there. Even though it was now 13:55 there was no chance of the bus leaving without us, it doesn’t more until 14:10 and then with many more stops we aren’t really on our way until close to 15:00.
All this wouldn’t have been too bad if it wasn’t for the discovery just after we start moving, that during all the rushing about in rickshaws, my sunglasses have fallen out of my bag, and are gone. So this has turned out to be a very expensive journey. The journey itself is OK, but slow, so that we are not in Udaipur until midnight. But our hotel is very nice and have waited up for us so we just go straight to bed.
The timing of our trip is supposed to be the bus leaving at 13:30 and arriving in Udaipur at 22:00, giving us a leisurely morning to pack and do some more internet. The place from where the bus is leaving is a bit out of the way, vaguely described as opposite Sun and Moon tower, but the drop off organised by our hotel finds it, and there is a bus from our bus company there. However there is no driver. This is at 13:00, so by 13:15 we decide to call the company to find out what’s happening. This is where they then tell us that we should go to opposite some cinema for the pick-up.
So now we are in a frantic rickshaw dash to get our bus. We get to the place they told us to go to only to find no bus. After another phone call, and some helpful intervention from a passer-by (as we could no longer understand the guy on the other end of the phone) we end up back in another rickshaw, and back almost where we started. We were probably only 300m away the first time, but we had travelled about 5km around the city before getting there. Even though it was now 13:55 there was no chance of the bus leaving without us, it doesn’t more until 14:10 and then with many more stops we aren’t really on our way until close to 15:00.
All this wouldn’t have been too bad if it wasn’t for the discovery just after we start moving, that during all the rushing about in rickshaws, my sunglasses have fallen out of my bag, and are gone. So this has turned out to be a very expensive journey. The journey itself is OK, but slow, so that we are not in Udaipur until midnight. But our hotel is very nice and have waited up for us so we just go straight to bed.
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