Some people plan their vacations far in advance and know
where they’re going when. We aren’t those people. I like the idea of being
flexible and sticking around a place we fancy and ditching a place that rubs us
wrong. Only problem is there are 1.2 BILLION people in India and a lot of them
like to ride trains. So it quickly became clear that booking a last minute long
haul train ride wasn’t going to be easy.
Thankfully there are tourist quota tickets. At some point,
someone must have figured out that it is bad for tourism if tourists can never
get anywhere because all the trains are booked 90 days in advance by local
people in the know. Enter Tourist Quota Tickets. It is unclear to me how many
of these exist, for which trains, and which compartments. All I know is that if
you want in a special tourist quota line and give a request for where you’d
like to go, when, and by what class, a guy behind the counter can usually find
you something that meets only the first criterion but is better than nothing.
We were hoping for 1st class tickets on Thursday to Goa. We got
third class tickets to Goa on Friday. Close enough.
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