Thank you for your comments! I enjoyed reading your travel story. They are always fun to swap. Yours sounds pretty extreme, even by backpacking standards.
Train travel is the traditional backpacker way, I suppose - that and buses. I did a whole bunch of Inter-railing as a youngster and I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a long cross-Europe train trip soon. But who knows? - as your experience makes clear, life is nothing if not unpredictable. India is a very long overland trip, and you have to pass through some questionable locations to get there. Plane seems the only way, I fear. I hope you can make it one day!
Thank you for your comments! I enjoyed reading your travel story. They are always fun to swap. Yours sounds pretty extreme, even by backpacking standards.
Train travel is the traditional backpacker way, I suppose - that and buses. I did a whole bunch of Inter-railing as a youngster and I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a long cross-Europe train trip soon. But who knows? - as your experience makes clear, life is nothing if not unpredictable. India is a very long overland trip, and you have to pass through some questionable locations to get there. Plane seems the only way, I fear. I hope you can make it one day!