Bused to Besishar today, cost us 500 rupees each with locals maybe paying 50 if that. Guess we're supporting the local economy but can't help feel we could be inflating prices a bit for the next foreigner to come by. The bus took 8 hours, with the ride being pretty horrific. It was truly an experience I will hope to forget with the bus overloaded and all manners of people with goats chickens and everything but the kitchen sink. One thing I noticed were the black plastic bags they handed out for people to puke in, then just discarded out the window. It is a little disappointing to see as a kayaker from New Zealand I try to not to litter at all as it invariably ends up in a river somewhere down the line.
Got to Besishar with a few people telling us the bus station up the Marsyandi river was about 2km away, then after me going half way there almost found out after returning to the guys there happened to be a bus that was going up the river. Cost us 1200 rupees for 3 people, which was pretty steep considering the distance was maybe 10 or 15 km. This was a bit annoying, but after we found a few things had been nicked from our boats so we argued and managed to regain some of the money.
The annoying thing about the whole debacle was not the fact we had lost a few carabiners but that the bus driver and conductor stood around for 30 minutes looking like the were thinking about it really hard but not really moving or doing a thing until we relented our demands for a refund. It wasn't their fault but they did not help the situation but make it worse by creating a bigger scene.
I guess this is the fun part of traveling when you really never know what will happen.
Got to Besishar with a few people telling us the bus station up the Marsyandi river was about 2km away, then after me going half way there almost found out after returning to the guys there happened to be a bus that was going up the river. Cost us 1200 rupees for 3 people, which was pretty steep considering the distance was maybe 10 or 15 km. This was a bit annoying, but after we found a few things had been nicked from our boats so we argued and managed to regain some of the money.
The annoying thing about the whole debacle was not the fact we had lost a few carabiners but that the bus driver and conductor stood around for 30 minutes looking like the were thinking about it really hard but not really moving or doing a thing until we relented our demands for a refund. It wasn't their fault but they did not help the situation but make it worse by creating a bigger scene.
I guess this is the fun part of traveling when you really never know what will happen.
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