
This was not my bus. It’s a school bus, and a smarter version. Sadly, I forgot to take a picture of the one I travelled in.
…. 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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