On the road

Indian traffic rules (are there any?) are quite odd to us sometimes, and what happens along indian roads always strikes (not phisically, hopefully) western visitors.I believe it's not even possible for foreigners to privately rent a car without including a driver! Roaming the net I stumbled upon a funny decalogue for would-be indian drivers, written by Mr. Nimisha Mittal, and I asked him the permission to quote him, hope you'll enjoy the thing as much as I did. In this small gallery you'll find out how much indian vehicles can be loaded both with persons and with goods, incredible for us. People often travel on the bus climbing on its roof, and there'as a special fee for that accommodation!. A three-wheeler can carry as much as ten or more poeple, and the average number of people travelling on a motorcicle is 3.5 according to my personal experience, with peaks of five persons sharing a single motorcycle. The picture in the gallery shows a load of apparently three people, but there was a kid in one of the women's arms, unfortunately I wasn't able to catch the view. Another amazing sight is the trucks' decorations. In full harmony with indian taste for hypercoloured and a bit kitsch arrangements, they are lavishly decorated with paintings, laces, flags, tails and every other embellishment. The paintings on their back almost always have suggestions for people traveling behind them. One often accepted suggestion is to "BLOW HORN!", one less accepted one is "WAIT FOR SIDE"... The other shots show the crowds of people, animals, cars, bicycles, buses, carts, tuc-tucs, the normal street life in India. Most of the shots are done from aboard the running car, so their quality is less than acceptable, sorry...

Help yourself bus	Colorful load	Top class travel	Motorcycle riding
Passengers	Only seven?	Traveling ladies	Tuc Tuc
Tuc Tuc	Load	Heavy load	Closer
Face view	Scrap iron load	Help!	Truck
Another one	Back side	Truck back	Truck
Painted back	A truck and its driver	Railroad crossing	Railway crossing
Camel cart	Camel caravan	Street scene	Young bull
From the rickshaw	Street scene	Street scene	Street scene
Street scene	Hut	Lord Shiva

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