It was not difficult to find the monument of Lenin in Vijayavada. It stands in the little garden surrounded
by the food stalls and street kitchens.
Poor Lenin! Bad smell od the urine is around. In India it is
common to piss on the side of the street even it the daytime… On the other side of the monument it is written in russian: canarade V I Lenin. 5hey say that 80 % od the population of Vijayawada are ehe communist…
Today I took the train from Vija to Hyderabad.
Well… not exactly… I had reserved seat to Hyderabad. Some 50 kms before Hyd the train stopped and they said that we have to go onward by the local bus. Works!
Can you imagine the crowd of 400+ people running to the road in front if the station!
Heat, dust, 20 kgs backpack and I try to get in to the junk bus with the others…
After some 80 minutes on the road I did.
Long life Indian Railways!
It was late afternoon when I landed in Mahatma Ghandi Bus Stand in Hyd. (Worth to remember: they call bus terminal *bus stand* in India.
