Early morning trains are always a pain, early starts, hotels having to unlock gates, but they are a part of the travellers lot. Mostly I take auto rickshaws alone or with friends, but it's great to mix it up and travel with more locals in shared rickshaws. So when we arrive at Chitrakoot we get chatting to an older guy sitting on the reception sofa and after asking him directions to head out on the holy walk, around the sacred hill. We joke about him joining us, and he says yes .... he works for the government in the tourist department! So we get a auto to the sacred Kamadgiri hill, where pilgrims walk along with monkey infested paves sacred path. Lord Rama spend over 11 years here in exile and Bhrama, Vishnu and Shiva took there incarnations here. Temples and shops line the paved circuit around the hill, and monkeys hang from the electricity wires, trees and fences.
On the way back we get a shared auto with 19 of us squeezed on for the journey. A different experience than just taking one alone at ten times the price. Later that evening we head to Ram Ghat, and take a decorated boat with sofas along the river, and rabbits laze around on the boat!
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