Nothing like a train station full of men waiting to buy tickets in the men-only lines on the first day tickets were available for Eid Break (5 days in advance). Off to the right corner there was a line with 5 or 6 women waiting to buy tickets. Upon our arrival we were quickly noticed and watched over (literally) by all armed-forces members working at the train station - we weren't certain who the threat was - us or them - but nonetheless, they got an up-close-and-personal view of the foreigners. When purchasing tickets each individual can only buy 4 tickets at a time, so Calynn, Trishna, and I waited patiently in line to purchase our 10 tickets. When it came time for the transaction we just stood there as the assistant from AUW (a male) handled our transaction. Clearly we were only needed to hold a place in the women's line and speed the process up (I can't imagine how long most of the men in the station had to wait for tickets - there were 100s). Upon returning to AUW we learned that there had been a mistake with our tickets and we were charged more because the ticket attendant had charged us for his mistake (he printed our tickets with a start destination of Dhaka instead of Chittagong...??? and then had to reprint them - costing us about $6)
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