When you find somewhere clean to stay in india, it becomes quite difficult to leave but leave I did today because as much as I like clean, my budget doesn't! So I hopped on train to gokarna. What an interesting experience! Firstly I managed to bargain down from 400 to 250 ruppees for my taxi then the train to gokarna cost all of 30 ruppees, for a 130 km train trip! Second class train travel is super cheap over here! (you can see from my pictures why). There are loads of people selling good and drinks and snacks, the train is contrasted by energetic sellers walking up and down shouting their merchandise for sale and the travellers who sit weary eyed and half asleep in the rows and rows of (very hard) seats.
I met a couple of german tourists on the train and they bargained ruthlessly for the taxi ride here, we paid only 70 ruppees each... I almost felt bad for the taxi driver, but he could've said no I guess. Ashley listening to them I feel like I'm always being ripped off! They seem to be leaving india with an intense dislike of indians. What a shame!
After trawling the beach looking for the cheapest room to stay in that was the least shitty, I ended up at the first place I went to. So typical! It had the cleanest bathrooms by far! I'm not too fussy about sleeping arrangements, a bed is a bed, but bathrooms I find hard to compromise! When a bathroom door half closes with a piece of string I have to decline. I'll pay those extra 50 ruppees a night!
I'm on a beach called om beach, gokarna is a group of beaches clustered together and separated by forests. As of yet I have just experienced a lot of little bungalows that all look similar and a few cows on the beach. Quite a few hippy looking tourists who seem to belong to the landscape. Full on om beach assessment tomorrow, as well as report on showers here. I suspect there its no hot water. I can deal with that though, when its 30° outside!
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