Driving in India is INSANE and more thrilling and scarier than a roller coaster ride. Not only are you sharing the road with large animals and tons of pedestrians, but people here don't seem to abide by traffic laws if they exist at all. There are no marked traffic lanes and very few crosswalks. What normally would be a 2-lane street can fit up to 10 cars/scooters/auto rickshaws. At any given point you're surrounded by automobiles coming at you from all directions so you just have to keep driving. And there's no such thing as a fender bender - if you accidentally bump someone or are bumped by someone, you just keep on driving. You only stop if it is a major accident where someone is seriously or fatally injured. The honking is constant - they honk when they want to pass someone or don't want to be passed or a pedestrian is too close or for no reason at all. From 6:30am to 11pm, all you hear on the road is honking and more honking. I would not even dare to get behind the wheel here (but Justin seems to think that he can). Luckily we don't have to as the family driver takes us anywhere we wish to go. Words cannot describe what is like to ride in a car here - just imagine being in a real-life Mario Kart race (I'd be Princess Peach and Justin would be Toad).
Pictures: 1) Taken from inside our car: all those cars were moving right at us. 2) Just look at all those cars and scooters centimeters away from each other. 3) Sharing the road with cows.P.S. We're leaving for a 2-week trip to Pune ("Poona") and will not have Internet access. Will blog again when I come back!
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