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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

The shortest night...

... of my life. Backtracking slightly to Mysore. After visiting Mysore we bought a ticket for the nightbus to Hospet, since there is no other public transport connection on this route. The only bus doing this 10hour ride is a semi-deluxe (yes it sounds good but it's actually 3rd class behind Volvo and Deluxe - they just use nice words for this class). Well, the bus wasn't too bad, it had 4 wheels, chairs and windows and we didn't change one tire along the route! As we were waiting for the departure a police men came to us and said 'take care of your luggage on this bus'. We followed his advice. Finally neither the bus nor thieves were a problem but the driver combined with the roads! We have driven quite a bit in Africa and other countries but this one was special. He drove like crazy and the roads were obviously unsealed making it really bumpy. You can imagine the feeling of waking up due to a huge bump and seeing two headlights of a truck a couple of meters in front of you...! In short, we arrived.

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