I spend the night before the 2nd in Gaya which is just a completely poor and fucked up town with a train station. Spend most of the time watching TV in the hotel. At 5am my train was leaving. 26 hours train ride. It was 30 hours in the end (4 hours too late).
But I was in 2AC which was cosy and quite and I met a couple of interesting people. Like a Brahmin who took over the compartment as soon as he entered (Brahmins never forget to mention that they are Brahmins in the first 15min of the conversation). And a former Oracle database admin who quit 10 years ago and went into mining! He is now fucking rich and told my a lot of funky stories about his life. Right now I’m in Rishikesh, the yoga capital of the universe (official title).