Having left the comfort of Marie's embrace, I made my way to Bangalore's Kempegowda bus station. (yeah I know... :p )
The bus station was maddening. Tons of people, I happened to catch them just in time for rush hour...bleh! Walking there I had a chance to practice my Frogger skills and I must say I did quite well dodging motorbikes, autorickshaws, cars and buses. You just need to have a bit of faith that the vehicles aren't there to run you over. Perhaps, but it felt good nonetheless that I could do as the locals did. Anyways, after walking around a bit I located platform 7 and proceeded to wait for my Volvo A/C bus. Meanwhile I was treated to a barrage of sounds, smells and visuals. There were people conversing everywhere, loud Indian music blaring, yummy aromas of fried Indian snacks, other not so pleasant smells, and a wave of bright colored saris going this way and that.
The actual bus ride wasn't too bad. The only exception was sitting on my bony ass got painful real quick going into hour 4 of the 9.25 hr ride over some tough terrain. The bus ride got really hairy with what seemed like a 2 hr descent through 27 hairpin turns in our Greyhound sized bus. I'm sure glad it was dark out. Not sure how I would take seeing the cliff side as we made our way down.
I'll post pictures soon. This netcafe's computers aren't accepting my camera's usb.
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