On our way to Sawai Madhopur.

It was so nice to leave Agra! We had booked a train at six in the morning and had agreed with a rickshaw driver who we had met the day before that he would pick us up at 5:00 am and he was there when we came out of the hotel in the morning. It has actually never happened that a taxi driver or rickshaw driver has not appeared when we booked them in advance – so nice!

At the station we were a little confused as our train was not showed on any sign in the station. After asking a number of people, we realized that the train was delayed and for some strange reason delayed trains disappear from the signs and no information is to be found anywhere. However, we found a man at some kind of information desk who told us that the train would depart from track 2, so there we went.

 

An hour delayed our train finally arrived and we found our seats. We were a bit nervous about the booking of the seats on this train. When we bought the tickets we were put on some kind of waitinglist and was not quite sure we had gotten seats as we had not received any confirmation from the company we used for our online booking. But on India railways website we was marked as confirmed so we believe it all was in order but as no one actually checked our tickets on the entire trip we will never find out. We got a great cabin with four beds (two beds downstairs and two upstairs) to ourselves and we had a great trip. We occupied one bed each, with our feet by the window, and then we could comfortably lay down and look out on the Indian landscape that flew by outside the window.

On this trip we had no breakfast included in the fee so we had some biscuits and soft drinks we had bought at the station and a cup of chai (20 rupees) which I bought from a chai-boy who walked past us in the train.