Northern India Journey - Day 16 Jodhpur & Train Station - 28/12/2010

After a good sleep in the train, the train stopped at Jodhpur in the morning. I got off the because I needed to take another train to Varanasi. I, then, was going to wait for 4 hours for the next one in the station. However, I'd heard something about the train. The announcement was the train had been cancelled!! Oh No!! I went to the counter and asked the staff why the train was cancelled. But, as expected, he shook his head in their Indian way and said No. I was so frustrated that my plan was interrupted in such way. I could only ask for refund and went to the ticket centre to book another ticket. Another bad news was there was no place for the other train to Varanasi on the same day! But I didn't want to stay in Jodhpur for 1 more day. So, I decided to went to Allahabad. I didn't know that was the best solution. But that was what I could do in that situation.

As the next train would depart at 8pm, I had a whole afternoon in Jodhpur. I went to rent a room so that I could have a nap and a bath. Actually I did really need a bath. I hadn't had one since the day I joined the camel safari. Finished all these thing, I still had some time to kill. So I went out and prepared something for the next train. Coincidently I met the Hong Konger I met last time. After a chat and visited a temple together, we went separated and continued our own journey.

The temple wasn't mentioned in the travel book. But we thought that's interesting to visit.

I didn't know at what time I provoked the dogs in Jodhpur. When I walked on a street (the same one as last time I "met" the dogs), they came and barked at me again!! And one of them even tried to bit me. Suddenly, also very luckily, a man came to me and took it out off me. He also kicked the dog few times. He smiled at me and showed as if everything was alright and don't worry. That made me so unforgettable about this city.

In the evening, I went to the station to wait for the train. At 8, the train supposed arrival time, I didn't hear and announcement and there was nothing on the electric notice board. I asked the station officer about the train. He said the train would technically arrived in 10. Come on! Technically? What's meant by technically?! I could just wait and wait. At 10, again, nothing showed. I went to the counter and saw a white board. It wrote that my train would arrive at 5am!! It was so terrible. I needed to stay in the railway station overnight! Luckily, there was a waiting room so I didn't need to wait outside (That night was cold and even drizzling.). In the waiting room, I was the only traveller there. The man sat in front of me was really curious about me. I thought that was rare to see a Chinese in this situation. He asked me questions like how long I would visit India and so on. But, generally, he was very nice person. Then I slept as I saw people in the room slept. I thought that's meant there was safe.