I now know what 18 million people looks like in one city with no traffic rules. Arrived at Indira Gandhi airport and was immediately struck by the slow ambling pace at which everyone walks, I guess this is due to the heat. After waiting about half an hour for our free pickup service from the hotel to arrive, we were greeted by our driver who spoke very limited english but was a very pleasant man. He was from Nepal and had lived in New Delhi for 16 years( that was about all I could get out of him). We hopped into his mini van for what we thought would be a quick and easy drive to the hotel, little did we know there is no such thing in New Delhi. On the way we saw five different types of animals, a heard of buffalo, cows(everywhere), monkeys, dogs and an Ox pulling a cart in mainstream traffic, children under 5 sitting on the side of the road and running up to our van to beg and cars going offroad and overtaking us on the left hand side. It was like a ride out of a theme park, but in real life. Cars seemed to have no regard for any road rules, just ignoring lanes. We came close to crashing at least 10 times, often into people on bikes or just walking in amongst the traffic. Our driver wasn't in the least bit phased by anything, but we were jumping up and down and holding on to our seats. Nicole managed to get sick on the first day,but despite this she still rates India 10/10 so far. More posts to come and photos.
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