WE BOARDED INDIA’S $28,000 LUXURY TRAIN (Maharajas' Express 7 day journey)

Today we will board the most luxurious

train

in India, the Maharaja Express, which is the best way for the next seven days, we will travel through this fascinating country from Mumbai to Delhi and wake up in a new city every day, it is like a cruise . but on land we have traveled on

train

s all over the world and this will be the second longest train

journey

we have ever taken, just behind the Trans-Siberian Railway, which we traveled on through Russia, so it is also related to so many berries and pigeons. The most expensive tram we've ever ridden, the Orient Express we wrote about earlier this year from Budapest to Paris, costs 28,000 for just 24 hours, but the difference is twenty-eight thousand dollars, it buys you a whole week on the

express

of the

maharajas

, besides this trip is everything. -It includes everything from food to drinks to entertainment, so join us for this three-part series as we mark this once-in-a-lifetime trip.

Travel off our foreign bucket list number two, there are only four suites on the entire train. A suite takes up half a train car, these rooms are gigantic, by far the largest train room we have ever had. As soon as you walk in, there is seating area number one. We have these two comfortable chairs right next to the window. We can see the world go by. Alright, we have a desk with two outlets and all these sweet little gifts, including a cookbook. It says here that we are going to try more than 500 local dishes this week.

I don't even know how it's possible, but all your favorites are. here in case you want to make them when you get home here we have a small snack corner included super American Pringles we have this huge beautiful bouquet of fresh flowers good afternoon ladies and gentlemen welcome everyone steam guests at maharaja's

express

thank you follow me in our room, the bed is quite comfortable, all the light controls are right behind my pillow, but most importantly we have our own personal Wi-Fi router here. If I'm picky there are missing sockets in the apartment next to the bed but we can show this we also have a phone where we can call the staff if we need something or we can just send a WhatsApp to our butler and we also have a remote menu this one goes to the TV this one goes to the DVD player and this is a mystery around in front of the bed we have another big beautiful wind which is without a doubt my favorite part of train travel because we get to see a lot of India this week here we have some storage where we will probably end up unpacking some of our stuff and hanging up the dress clothes we didn't bring we both wore the fanciest thing we packed which is awesome this is where things get a little more exciting we have our tv they gave us a dvd to watch in the drawers They are full of amenities, fresh dental kit, boom, everything you could want and down here we have a mini bar stocked with soft drinks and three different types of chocolate including Snickers, many of us have told you that there is quite a bit under the bed. of storage we have our two huge suitcases and our two backpacks down here, which is good because you just have to wait until you see our bathroom, just keep in mind we're on a train right now, watch this space, we have a shower. sink another mirror, all your usual amenities Plus that was noisy, a bathtub, we've definitely never had this on a train before, but the best part is the full size amenities, also ropes, and that makes it for our tour of the suite, we are clearly delighted to be able to call us our home for next week.

I am very grateful, excited and hungry. It's lunchtime for some context. This is not our first trip to India. We actually traveled here in 2018, but that trip looked very different. We did the traditional backpacking trip. I traveled on many public trains and ate all the street food, but on this trip we are going to experience a very different side of India, so to get from our room to lunch is only three cars, but depending on where you go. train, it could be a very long trip, the train has 23 cars and from front to back it is almost half a mile long.

My favorite herb is cilantro, oh great, so if you just want to put cilantro in everything I eat, not the cilantro. Is not perfect? I love them, thank you, how elegant, starting with a vegetable soup broth, it has so much flavor, man, that's because there are too many ingredients. Yes, I have used the broth of all the vegetables and then cooked them for exactly 45 minutes. in boiling water, the strong flavors of thyme and the third ingredient is love. Thank you foreigner for supporting our adventures all this year, from swimming in Alcatraz to traveling on a

luxury

train through India.

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This flag we are on now will be the longest trip we will take without stopping. Almost 24 hours from Mumbai to Udapore, so since we have the rest of the afternoon here on the train, we thought we'd use it to show you around the train. Each carriage we have access to on the Maharaja Express has 23 carriages. I don't have access to four of them, but we'll show you the other 18. Starting from the back and working your way to the front, it's going to take a while, but I have this little map that tells me where everything is.

This last car is the generator and then it is the staff corner, so technically we are in car number three of the train that has the Junior Suites. There are three Junior Suites per cart, so they are a little smaller than the suite we stayed in, but. They are still super spacious. The biggest difference is that the Junior Suites do not have a separate living room or bathtub. Car number four has Lux rooms, which are the cheapest rooms you can get on the train, but there are still only one and two. three four of them that occupy an entire train car no one on this train is mistreated cars number six and seven are more rooms this is car number eight and this is our suite and there is another sweet in this car this is the second Suite, but I'm pretty sure no one will stay here, which means we have this whole train car to ourselves.

Car number nine is the only room in the presidential suite that occupies this entire car. Car number 10 is another nice car identical to ours and car number 11. It is the first bar car, where we picked up Chef John. Good evening and Namaste, welcome on the Maharaja's express. This train was built in 2010. All the artifacts you see are original, including those two crystals out there. those are from the Portuguese restaurant when the Portuguese invaded India. I'll explain it to you now, you get it, man, it's okay, because you've memorized it, you know something when girls talk, they have a different voice and that's captivating. a voice like a horse visa hand carved chairs made of mahogany these tiles are individual chips baked at 578 degrees centigrade now this is just for your information okay so don't record it come here come closer you will see the glitters the reds , this man's yellows and blues this is not color these are semi-precious stones crushed to powder and really embedded this makes it the most expensive artifact on the tree I think we're going to take a private tour of John's kitchen welcome to my kitchen this is a complete trainer my most important and expensive equipment the combi oven does everything from boiling rice to baking bread all the ingredients are here the best part about this little kitchen is that if you were korean and wanted korean food we could give you Korean food similarly, if you are from any part of the world, we could do something to satisfy your stomach.

These water bottles. I am not using water from outside. I use portable water to cook your food. It's very good to know so that no one does it. sick, you are very talented, you should be an actress, ma'am, you should be, but unfortunately I'm not that tall, I'm not that fair, so I would be more or less a villain, rather this is very, very special and is the epitome. A 68-year-old gentleman painted this restaurant by hand and these are not oil pastels or watercolors, these are colors made by crushing stones. The rest of the train, from cars 16 to 21, are all guest rooms.

The Maharaja Express can carry up to 88 passengers. she's a guitar oh you ate that was mine very personal this game has an extra level of difficulty when we're on a moving train two in a row there's no way we're going to be the winner thank you very much it's awesome on a moving train Wow omg , this is too much, this plate weighs like 20 pounds. I would eat this every day for the rest of my life. We are officially two for two on 10 out of 10 meals. Yes, I'm so full in the best way, oh God. God, this is the cutest thing ever.

He left his eye mask and earplugs on the bed because you know, I think the mystery remote is solved. Yes, it is a smart TV. And he put the remote control here with all our sleeping gifts. Sleeping chocolates. Can't. I think this is my life for the next seven days. What are we going to take care of? I wanted to remember our first time here. Good morning. I wish I had better news to report about the dream. I thought I was going to be able to say that I was. rocked like a baby all night, but more like one of those weight loss machines from the 70s or 80s, machines do everything.

I'm not comfortable with that kind of vibration around my hip, that's how I felt lying in bed. all night last night so we'll be all over this morning but this should bring us back to life oh my gosh it was hot thank you yeah that's my kind of breakfast this is the first non

india

n food I've ever had . do this, these are all fresh flower petals, thank you. I wonder if it's right every time we get tormented when we get off the train, so the biggest advantage of being in one of the four suites after getting off the train is instead of getting on the bus with everyone else, you get your own driver private to and from the different places, so from here we go to the City Palace complex, there are two parts, the museum park and the Crystal Gallery park, and then we drive around the city where we started. the morning on Lake Coachella where we got on a boat with an oversized life jacket, but it was worth drowning to see this beautiful city from the water, don't confuse my calm, quiet voice with a lack of enthusiasm about this place where we are. simply in a very beautiful palace, everyone is relaxed, the atmosphere here is pleasant and calm.

I'm just trying not to interrupt you but let me tell you a little bit about the Slate we're on, it's called lake pachola and udupor is generally described as the Venice of the East because the city is super green and there's tons of water and a lot of the city is actually built around water. I would say Lake Pachola is probably the most beautiful place we visited in all of India and it is beautiful. In a totally different way I normally love the beautiful chaos of India but this place is calm and serene and there are these amazing newly built palaces on the banks of this beautiful lake and even in the middle of the lake palaces that are their own foreign islands.

I used to play chess and apparently chess and polo originated here in India so the main part of the tour was over but we asked our guy before we parted if we could see the local side of udovore so which took us to the vegetable market and This is the side of India that I remember and I fell in love with the beautiful Chaos in the streets. Oh, this didn't happen last time we were here or we didn't understand it, but we're walking through this market and all the ladies. They're asking if we just got married and I think it's customary that if you just got married you're supposed to hand out candy.So everyone is trick-or-treating.

I love them and we asked our guide if we should get some and he. he said that would cause a lot of problems, the whole market would be on top of us, let's do it right oh wow this is awesome wow magic wow three colors how many will you get? I don't know 12. I'm going yeah, she wants one of mine, I'm so happy now we passed by that street stall and I thought, oh yeah, I'll buy one, they're made of glass, they're so pretty, it better be a nice souvenir, it turns out that you have to buy them. in packs of 15.

God, I missed this. Okay, we just parted ways with our tour guide. We have about an hour until the sun sets, so we'll spend some time walking around the old city and reserving the suite. the private driver and the private guide. I didn't realize how good it was going to be but everyone else on the train was traveling in a large group on a bus with headphones and we had a personalized guide, we had to ask all our questions every time you came to India you would see cows wandering the streets, is it bad to touch them?

So learning more about cows was fascinating. To me, even though they are wandering the streets, people actually own the cows and it is good karma to feed the cows, he said in the Hindu religion, feeding one cow is like feeding a hundred humans, so if you want efficient Karma just go out and feed a cow, a woman just got hit by a motorcycle, it was very gently, no one was hurt, you literally never know what you're going to see here on the streets, I was just a kid who was dragged in a golden lion chariot in the middle of a whole procession of people. singing in front of him and waving flags, okay, I'm having a moment right now, we're turning the corner and I saw there was no sunset, the clouds were just gray and I was so bummed because I'd been waiting for all this. day and then we find something much better than a sunset all these candles are being thrown into the water the women are wearing these beautiful dresses lighting candles to the god apparently today is the last day of Diwali, which is a big holiday here in India and women are lighting handles and sending them into the water so that their husbands may live a long life.

I'm sure it's more elegant than that, but that's what a local tried to tell us with his broken necklace, it's so beautiful and me. I'm so happy we didn't get back on the train with the beat, I have to wear this hanging in front of the leather store. Wow, okay, we're leaving, thanks for the help, let's go, okay, back to the The train back is a little more exciting than leaving. I missed this. Ubers are so boring. Our guide also told us this morning that honking here doesn't mean anything like at home, it just means I'm coming and sometimes if you don't.

Let people know you're coming, maybe they'll get angrier if you don't fuck you. Thank you so much. An unnegotiated 15-minute ride to the train station costs less than two dollars. Whatever the best care is, I would say that. about any city in India right now she is very excited to return you have been waiting for us all the time no doubt we are the last ones on the train we are the last ones yes yes so cheers oh my god oh my god thank you I could have done that. I totally missed them on our tour yesterday but there are two foot massagers in the middle of the train, they are not watching a movie, it doesn't get any better than this, oh my god Rohit, this is too.

In the next episode, our train continues to Joe Purr, where we spent the day exploring the beautiful blue city of India and then Nate convinced me to visit one of the most unique and, in some ways, terrifying places I've ever seen: this temple full of rats, be careful.