A Russian traveller’s experience aboard an Indian Railways Third AC coach is going popular online. Alena Makush, a digital content creator from Russia who has been documenting her India travels on Instagram, recently shared a video of her first journey in a 3AC coach, and the clip quickly gained traction on social media.
Reflecting on her first impressions of the country, she admitted that adjusting initially was not easy. “The first day was difficult for me. The atmosphere here was completely different from the tranquility of Bali,” she wrote. “In India, opposites seem to exist side by side: poverty and wealth, noise and silence, chaos and peace. Here, poverty and wealth, noise and silence, chaos and remarkable peace can exist side by side. At first, these differences caught my attention.”
Alena arrived in India on July 12 after spending time in Bali, according to her Instagram profile. In the caption of a video shared on July 17, she wrote, as translated from Russian: “India brings together many contrasts.
