A Sri Lankan train ride from hell
This post is about the journey from Kandy to negombo Sri Lanka. What I expected to be a relaxed ride turned out to be an endurance marathon to survive a Sri Lankan train ride.
We arrived at the station about 45min before the train would leave and we calmly bought a second class ticket for the first part of our journey to Colombo. We deliberately chose second class to avoid the crowds and get a seat for the 3,5h ride. However when we got to the platform we just found a very shabby looking train full of people. At this moment I still thought to myself “ah this is probably 3rd class let’s look for second.” We found second class and it was not any better than 3rd. About 30min before the train had to leave the people were already hanging outside of the doors and I started to panick on how to get onto the train. We found one wagon where we could squeeze in and this meant that we would have to hang out of the door too.
