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25 Feb 2005
After we had arrived in Surat at 7am, I headed straight to the state bus stand to catch the 8am service to Aurangabad. It is really easy to move around India, as there is always a means of transport. But sometimes due to lack of options you have to face it and take the state bus...I guess, I don't have to tell you much about a 10hr trip on a prison bus with temperatures around 40 degrees Celsius.

The smog above the city was so dense in the morning that it was impossible to read a traffic sign from any distance of more than 100m!

In front of me sat a young mother with her baby daughter. Everytime the baby pissed herself, the mother changed nappies and put the wet ones to dry on the iron rail outside the bus (I don't know what the rail is for, but I assume it is supposed to hold the vehicle together). Well, I'm sure this makes nice, dry, and dusty little nappies!

About 2 hours before we arrived in Aurangabad, the scenery became quite pleasant with hills and fields of sunflowers, corn, barley and cotton. Women were harvesting in the cotton fields and I could see huge mountains of cotton on the way.
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