We booked a 15 hour night train from Palolem Beach in Goa to Fort Cochin in Kerala, set to depart at 11:20pm. It was an hour late, but not so bad considering some of the horror stories I’ve heard about Indian train delays. Since it was our first train ride without the group, we were a bit apprehensive about finding the ride compartment and getting on quick. That part was surprisingly easy.
The floor in our compartment was covered in newspaper, and smelled really bad. Like puke. Someone had gotten sick all over the floor and just covered it in newspaper, and this is where we were supposed to spend the next 15 hours? We tried talking to the guy working on the train, and his solution was to just lay down more newspaper on top of what was already on the floor. Not exactly an ideal solution! He didn’t really seem overly concerned about the mess or the smell.
With our shoes on pushed all the newspaper out. We were in the first sleeping compartment right near a door, so the guy working just pushed all the newspaper out onto the track. We splashed water on the floor and then wiped that up with more newspaper and shoved it all out the door.
In the end it smelled a bit better, but still smelled faintly of puke. That night we slept with our bags up on our beds.
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