Of course I did not know if anything had gone wrong and if they would even BE there, but as I walked into the restuarant, there sat Jo with our tickets. We happily swapped stories of our travels over the past few days and ordered oodles of Chinese food as we were practically starving by this point.
Chad and Maxine, who had struck up a romance (ie the last time I saw her she stumbled out of his room at 9am) arrived together about 20 minutes later.
We discussed how all our various nationalities had heroes such as Jean Claude Van Damme from Belgium and I said South Africa had none. "What about Tarzan?" remarked Chad.... hmmmmm......
So we decided we needed snacks! We were not gonna party as we all wanted to chill on the train and read, but stocked up on chocolates, chips etc etc
Let me introduce you to the backpacker squat... the position most comfortable when waiting with a heavy backpack on ur shoulders.... (snacks in the packets)
The trainWe booked into second class, nothing fancy, but clean and comfortable!
Reading - bliss
View from the train
It was a tiring journey, I couldn't sleep despite taking a sleeping pill. Seems when lying down feeling the movement of the train I imagine it derailing - and actually had a nightmare to this extent. It was also really hot! Everyone else was fine however. We had to wander around a bit to find accomodation, eventually settled at TK's guesthouse. Nice, clean, but at least one of us were kept up by an all night disco which had the whole room vibrating!!
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