Travelling - road trip

Travelling round india theres many sights to see which is an experience in itself. From seeing whole families on one motor bike or 20ft ladders being carried on a different bike to cows just chilling in the middle of the road. Expect the unusual and embrace it. Rules don't seem to apply just honk your horn - the more musical the better and find the gap in the direction you want to go! I haven't yet experienced driving myself around, however it was always an interesting experience as a passenger and none of the journeys I went on were uneventful.

Dhruv - Nice Hat!

At the start of my internship myself and fellow intern and Uni friend Ben, along with the boss and fellow staff were fortunate to spend several days travelling around to recce some places for us to run programs out of. The travels started out from Delhi - where the roads were packed full of drivers and roads in pretty good condition - apart from it being hot and my amusement in seeing the cows everywhere it was pretty uneventful. Although saying that there was some pretty interesting ways of driving and transporting things to be observed. Upon Ben enquiring about how long roughly the journey would take we were informed it would take about 6 hours. At that moment in time that was a fairly satisfactory answer - and conversation followed along with a mix of mostly Hindi music - although not understanding what the music was saying we got rough translations which satisfied our curiosity. 

Making a road - Lots of dust!

Once leaving Delhi we were able to see many different sights that India has to offer, beautiful scenery, mixed in with some fascinating animals, houses made out of what could be classed as rubbish to some westerners, little shops and restaurants. The roads ranged from nice Tarmac roads to potholes that were so big you couldn't avoid them. Well on the journey one of these potholes did damage the rim of the wheel on the car - Unfortunately. However, coincidently and luckily for us there was help not too far away as a few hundred meters down the road there was a man who can fix this. So we pulled over to these guys on the side of the road who - pretty quickly beat the tyre back into the right shape with a hammer and blew it back up and put it back on pretty quickly. They could rival the formula 1 people but without the fancy tools. After negotiating the price - We were on our way again fortunately. As it was dark and quite a crowd of men had gathered around from nearby who had all been drinking- maybe the sight of myself and Ben caused their interest or the whole group of us did who knows I didn't understand a word they were saying! We were back on our travels which was good and making progress to our destination.

That was the start of what we became to refer to as the six hour journeys - inspiration for a book that could be written about just journeying around India as it never seems as straight forward as you want it to be. 

Cows!!!