We have finally made it to India after our 20 hour trip on planes and in airports! Hurray! The only downside is that we have two more forms of transportation (train and bus) and 11 more hours to go until we reach our final destination of Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu. One silver lining though is that we picked up some more 2 week special volunteers who arrived the previous night and earlier in the morning than everyone else on the escorted flight.

Amrita and Courtney waiting for our train to Maddurai with the other volunteers

The diversity of India is readily apparent from this sign on our train. You can see the route laid out from left to right in Hindi, English and Tamil.

Amrita and Olivia on the train. Although we we were traveling 1st Class in the air conditioned car I don’t think the train was built to handle all of our luggage! But with some scrunched knees and basic geometry we got them all on!

Even after numerous flights and a 9 hour train journey everyone was in good spirits although very tired! Here everyone is for the last leg of our trip, a bus ride to Sivakasi.

On an aside, do you know who is the largest employer is in the world? If you do, please drop your answer in the comments. I will reveal the answer in one week.