Buses

Getting a bus in India is always a lottery. It doesn't matter if you take a local bus or a deluxe one, if you take a seat or if you take a sleeper. However, there is something that is for sure, a night bus will be very cold.

I got a sleeper from Bikaner to Udaipur and could not sleep because it was too cold. My jumper and the high vent weren't enough. Innocent as I was in getting this kind of buses, I though it would be better than the government night buses, but I was wrong. So I got to Udaipur with hardly no sleep.

Having learned my lesson, the sleeper from Udaipur to Rajkot, on my way to Diu, I did not hesitate to take my sleeping bag with me. And it turned out to be a good idea. Though it was a better trip, the compartment was smaller, and so, fitting in there, though I'm small enough, wasn't that easy and comfortable.

About local buses, you never know how long is it going to take to get to your destination. If someone says 8 hours, it might as well be 12 or 6. On the case of the bus from Shimla to Dharamsala, it took 2 hours less. On the latest cases, from Rajkot to Diu, it took 3 more hours. As I said, a lottery.