Katni

Our last India Railway experience (maybe forever?) was a good one, even though we had to get up at 4am to catch the train. We managed to end up in the same carriage and next to each other, which had not happened before (tickets are hard to come by). The train was clean, by IR standards (even the toilets), our cabin mates were quiet and we had a comfortable 11-hour ride to the town of Katni.
We ended up staying the night at a pretty disappointingly grungy hotel that we’d booked online. It was next to a highway overpass and we even had to ask the management to give us clean sheets. Somehow we managed to sleep before being picked up for a 2-hour drive to Bandavgarh National Park.Read more