So to date, we have seen and driven among the following things on the tiny little smelly dirty noisy hazardous roads of India:
cars
goats
buses
cows
cycles
camels
auto-rickshaws
tuk tuks
cycle-rickshaws
dogs
trucks
holy men
scooters
beggars
even elephants!!!
It certainly takes a bit of getting used to, hooning as fast as humanly possible down streets where you just can't tell which way the traffic should be going, loudest horn gives right of way, dodging women with enormous loads on their heads and sometimes running over goat hooves. Bit of a shock to hurtle round a corner straight into an elephant...
Moved on from the gorgeous little fortified city of Jaisalmer to the heart of the Thar desert (about 100kms from Pakistan). Spent a magical evening on a camel safari. Had a bonfire and ate spicy food, watched the tribal dancing and heard the singing. Fell asleep under the most starry sky in complete silence apart from the wind blowing - just spectacular.
Very long bus ride to Jodhpur (where the horse riding pants come from). Not so impressed with this city - just a more intense version of all the dirt/smell/rubbish that was in Delhi. Think walking along the street being harassed by kids, avoiding cow pee (and worse), dodging cows covered in flies...
Despite this, the Mehengarh Fort from the 14th century was pretty cool to explore. Then it was another long bus ride (imagine 4 wheel driving through mountainous desert on a bus that had seen better days in the late 1970s..) to Udaipur, still in Rajasthan (the land of kings).
