Our day of travel from Darjeeling to Nepal was fairly interesting. First we had to take a jeep from Darjeeling to Sigulri which took about 3 hours (much less time then when we took the bus there). Then we had to get another taxi to the border of Nepal which is really just a bridge going from India to Nepal. The Taxi driver had to point out the immigration office or we would have just started walking across the border - the officer was watching us the entire time with a look like he did not want to do anything and would prefer we just walked across. After he took down our Passport information, etc we walked across the bridge towards Nepal - no security search or security questions asked. There was a crazy man walking towards India kicking, shouting, and punching the air. When he walked by us he punched both of us in the stomachs (not very hard) and then started his kicking and screaming routine over agian. As weirded out as we were, we laughed with everyone walking with us about how crazy he was. The immigration office on the other side of the bridge was also hard to find - just a small shack. They took our passport information and we paid for our Visas in American dollars. Not once were we asked what was in our bags or go through any sort of security.
From there we caught a local night bus to Kathmandu - it was awful!! They would not put our bags on top of the bus so we had to keep them in the aisle where people were stepping on them and using them as seats since it was completely overbooked. The seats in front of us did not work and reclined so far that the seats were in our laps. The guys behind my always pulled my seat down and pulled my hair while I was splattered with bugs and dirt from the window being open.
Ben was a pillow for about 3 people and had no where to put his legs because of the reclining seats. This went on for 15 hours before we arrived in Kathmandu & the roads in Nepal are even worse than India! We were frustrated, dirty, tired from being awake for 30 hours; so we splurged on a hotel in Kathmandu that had hot showers, a tub, TV, a huge comfortable bed, and did nothing for the rest of the day. It was a long trip but we finally made it!
From there we caught a local night bus to Kathmandu - it was awful!! They would not put our bags on top of the bus so we had to keep them in the aisle where people were stepping on them and using them as seats since it was completely overbooked. The seats in front of us did not work and reclined so far that the seats were in our laps. The guys behind my always pulled my seat down and pulled my hair while I was splattered with bugs and dirt from the window being open.
Ben was a pillow for about 3 people and had no where to put his legs because of the reclining seats. This went on for 15 hours before we arrived in Kathmandu & the roads in Nepal are even worse than India! We were frustrated, dirty, tired from being awake for 30 hours; so we splurged on a hotel in Kathmandu that had hot showers, a tub, TV, a huge comfortable bed, and did nothing for the rest of the day. It was a long trip but we finally made it!
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