From Vrindavan, I took the same train I’d arrived on the night before, meaning I’d planned to stop there for 24 hours. That was a fair amount of time. As soon as I arrived at the station, I saw the notice that my train was running 20 minutes late. No big deal. What I was…
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After some awesome times in Varanasi, I took my long taxi ride back to the airport and checked in for EasyJet. This boarding process was much simpler than in Kolkata (smaller city), and the airport was laughably small. 5 gates total. I had no idea such a cheap flight would serve a meal, so I…
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I can’t express how excited I was to be finally going to India. This is a place I’ve romanticized in my mind, ever since I was a child, but it always seemed so far away. From Bangkok, I flew on the exciting-sounding Spice Jet to Kolkata. Don’t call it Calcutta 🙂 Anyway, I was 100%,…
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From Koh Tao, I got picked up in a back-of-a-pickup-truck taxi, rode down to the ferry port, fought through the crowds at the main/express ferry, and went to the slower/cheaper ferry. After waiting there, I rode the freezing cold ferry (people were literally getting out their sleeping bags and blankets). On the way to Koh…
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From Bangkok, I took the night train to Chumphon (9 hours), where I would get off, catch a bus to the ferry port (1 hour), and then take the ferry to the island of Koh Tao (2 hours). Overall travel time: too much. The train was definitely my worst in Thailand. There was a Thai…
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