CRAZYJOURNEY ARRIVES IN INDIA!
A disguised Jamie MacDonough is allowed on to the flight without his face being seen!Severely hungover and still clad in our turtle outfits, we headed on the Tokyo metro one last time to catch a train to the airport. Dave, Rhys, Sokhi and Jamie ended up missing the train despite being on the right platform and just got the flight by skin of their teeth after catching the next train. Jamie MacDonough managed to check in for his flight with his turtle mask still on over his head!
Calcutta Taxis!We arrived to a run down Calcutta airport in the evening. After exiting the plane we had to wait for 20 minutes on the runway for some buses to pick us up and bring us inside. After all the airport formalities, we grabbed one of the old school yellow taxis and headed to our hostel in Sudder Street, Calcutta’s equivalent of the Khao San Road, Bangkok.
Heading towards the city from the airport, it suddenly hit us how mad and run down the city is. Its every man for himself on the roads in Calcutta, and there’s total disregard for any rules of the road. Our taxi driver was a complete lunatic, constantly driving on the wrong side of the road and cutting off other cars presuming they were going to stop. Any communication on the road is done through beeping, and they do plenty of it, adding to the mayhem of Calcutta’s run down streets.
We finally arrived at the hotel, situated on a street that can only be described as a complete mess! Porverty is extremely evident in this city with hundreds of people begging and sleeping rough on the streets everywhere you look. We all went straight to bed, knackered from the last 36 hours.
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