
…. was the sort you see in all the pictures. Unglazed windows with bars across, and an engine that had probably been put together c.1953. If this coach had been a human body, you’d probably have called it ‘lived in’. As it was in fact a bus, I’d say it had had a long history of ‘near misses’. Oh, and it may not have been cleaned since 1953 either.
But the big excitement was a motorway. Well, perhaps not a motorway, but a toll road anyway, with dual carriageway, a hard shoulder and a central reservation. The road surface was indifferent, but so superior to anything I had met previously that I could understand why everyone described it as ‘the fast road to Chennai’. Here’s what I found out:

- 2 lanes doesn’t mean slow and fast. Everyone uses both lanes indiscriminately and over or undertakes at will.
- Goats use the ‘fast’ lane.
- Cows use the central reservation.
- Bicycles going the opposite way to the prevailing traffic use the hard shoulder. As do pedestrians.
- Men pushing handcarts use the main highway.
- The hard shoulder is also for bus stops.
- There are zebra crossings. God knows why, nobody ever uses them.
- Pedestrians cross whenever they want to. Not at the zebra crossings, obviously.
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Wow! What a journey you must have had, I continue to marvel at your courage.
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You wait till the next one……
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Let’s have it then, I can’t wait!
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Oh my,you have nerves of steel, Margaret…. and the motorway sounds like the one in Cuba well over a decade ago…had very little traffic on then
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Honestly, it wasn’t scary. Just fascinating.
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Which is actually probably whatI would have thought!
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So many interesting and fascinating photo opportunities. Were the ‘speedy’ goats eating the paper or licking the glue?
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A bit of both I think….
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Total and utter chaos! Were you a nervous wreck the whole time?!
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I was into my fourth week by then. Nothing fazed me.
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Love the photo of the goats. 🙂 🙂 Sounds like they might have needed a few zebra.
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Tee hee! Who knows?
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I’m planning an India trip for the end of the year. Thanks for some lovely ‘insights’ both visual and verbal!
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Don’t forget that this was over ten years ago. I’m sure a lot has changed. I hope you’ll have as wonderful an experince as I did, and I’m looking forward to reading all about it.
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Hadn’t realised it was 10 years ago 🤣
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I’m amazed that humans, goats, cows and zebras survive at all! 😉
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It wasn’t half as hairy as you might think!
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great photos!
what a riot, those goats
😄🌾
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Oh, I wasn’t so sure. I felt rather sorry for them.
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