Hard Sleeper Train

Today we took a hard sleeper train to Yichang. After the luxurious soft sleeper, my expectations were high. It was a long 14 hours. Six people are crammed into a small, open compartment, with probably around 100 people on a car. At the beginning it was pleasant: everyone was happy, walking around, and socializing. But as the hours passed everyone became more restless. Little kids were running around crying and it started to smell really bad. So far we’ve been traveling via very nice buses, planes, and the most expensive type of train around China but the hard sleepers are a more affordable type of transportation so we were with more average citizens.Although it wasn’t the most enjoyable 14 hours of my life, it was really cool to see how more average Chinese people travel, also because everything was open I was able to interact with some of the people.