"Tranquil everyday" felt by traveling in India and "No Order" next to each other

Occurred in Delhi, India in 2012Group rape caseNot only in India but also in the whole world called riots. Even if you read the blogs of those who traveled in India, there are a lot of stories, such as theft, fraud, extortion, and desire to close their ears. Still I wanted to travel in India, so I paid close attention and got on board. However, when you come down, you do not have a bad person. If you have something in trouble, mostly you will be kind. Nevertheless "Because India is a dangerous country, we can not take care of itI came to the conclusion that.

Hello,Takuya Sudo @ circle around the world bicycle @ Charridermanis. After I landed in Mumbai on March 20, I stayed in India for 55 days, with Nepal and Bangladesh in between. It is a country where people vote for pros and cons, but I was a similar impression. It was healed by free air, but irritated by a society without order.

No, it is normal otherwise ...?
There is no destination guide at the bus stop, so you can not tell which bus goes where you go by just the number of the bus. In the city of Kolkata, the way to come back to the inn is to ask the next person "I want to go to here, which bus do you want to board?" When the target bus approaches, it tells me "I can get on this". Even at the hospital, even at the train station, I borrowed the help of Indian people if I had trouble. When I did not have a cheap hotel in the town, I got local people to lend me a room.

The couple who took care of us.


People in a friendly city.


What makes you feel more relaxed is the appearance of an old man sitting by crossing a little shop. Like Central and South America, I will not exchange money through steel fences. The only drunkard is dangerous, only the liquor store was surrounded by a cage. However, most shops are open mildly. Would you like to go out somewhere, some shops without the appearance of the Lord. What I doubted my eyes was a bundle of cards casually stacked on the currency exchange desk at the border with Nepal. Compared with the countries such as Guatemala and Honduras where the guns were everyday, I do not feel the air that made the city feel terrible.

General Indian shops.


Because supermarkets are not spreading, I was worried about shopping at a shop without price tags as to whether I could not get rid of it. However, if the shop does not attach a price tag, the government will price the item. The price of MRP (Maximum Retail Price) was printed on Indian food and daily necessities, so shopping was smoother than I thought.Taj MahalAgra which is located in the shrine of Varanasi in the Ganges river, I was told somewhat high price, but in doubt it is only good to check with the hands. If I was told a price that is not a list price, I bought a shop searching for a store to sell at a fixed price.

MRP 25 rupees (about 50 yen) and the price are written on the back of the package of the toothbrush.


Some packages appealed the price like this mini-maid.


◆ However, manners are bad
Unexpectedly calm daily life, however, there was nothing to relax. Unfortunately, manners are too bad.

I think that there are not so many countries that many urinate people in the city as much as India. Moreover, there was a person sitting and making utility, it was a considerable culture shock. Crouch down and urinate while hiding male instruments between both feet. It is a feeling that there is no danger even if people are walking around. As expected there was not a person who did a big deal in the city, but a small child crowded on the roadside in the countryside with a crouching squat. The traces of the large puff remaining on the roadside are highly likely not children, so I was careful not to tread over. By the way, the toilet in the Indian train has a hole only, the thing that comes out falls on the railroad track.

I sit and urinate at these places.


Traffic manners were also horrible. It is troubled even if you hit a horn like madly. Since every vehicle bends at the shortest distance, it goes round and roundRound aboutThe intersection does not work. The mirror of the bike is in a state of being folded in fear of colliding. It is good to ride three or four people on one bike, but let's get over the helmet at least. And do not run in the reverse direction. Despite the progress lane, the oncoming car runs with our own face. Those who parked on the street were obliged to park, but could not they stop at the end? The car behind can not move forward due to your car. ...... There are many such freak-fair people, so if you get to an intersection, traffic jam will occur. It stopped when the car stopped, a motorcycle that snow falls into the open space to us. Fortunately I was never caught in an accident, but when I was running I was forced several times.

The breakers are descending, but bikes crossing the railroad crossing through the gaps.


Congestion caused by political assembly. I do not see it as thought of parking space.


The common sense of the world does not pass, the folded bike mirror.


Since the garbage is thrown away all over the place, the city was dirty and there was no choice. The dark-colored ditch looks like something wanders around the Puspuspus. Ogawa flowing downtown also has a strange color that I do not want to step on foot. The cow worshiped as a sacred existence of Hinduism drips excretion, pigs running around the roadside catch fish and remaining food. A new unsanitary element called a puddle that joins the roadside full of garbage as it rains. Rats will come and visit the room when staying at the cheap hotel. In the meantime, because some people cleanse the city, they are not dirty all the time, but because the bad manners surpass such things, they are forced to live in daily life in an unsanitary environment.

In the immediate vicinity of the garbage, a food stall to open.


A swine piggy rice.


The river is full of garbage.


puddle.


ATM also has this.


A state of handling chickens while flies are growing.


No way, I would not think that there is a dog at the foot I was walking on other than India. I am tired and distracted, distracted, dogs are not ground but trampled ... .... "Can っ", bleeding bleeding biting an ankle at the same time as crying. In India, more than 20,000 people per year are said to have died of rabies. It was night, so I got the next morning, but somehow I ingested the vaccine. On that day as the first day, I had my vaccine injected when I looked for a hospital five times in total, 3rd, 7th, 14th and 28th. For India stray dogs were part of everyday life, such as lying in the center of the way people go and going around, hunting around the garbage dumping area for fishing and feeding.

Vaccines and injections.


Stray dogs playing in the city.


As far as I was traveling, safe countries had free toilets, transportation manners were good, garbage was never falling down in the city, no worry about stray dogs was needed either. From such experiences, India is dangerous, so I try to be careful.

First of all, I do not understand Indians
When staying in a certain cheap hotel, a young man who can speak English steadily proceeded. When asking "I want to put a bicycle in the room", "Answer that it is useless, no good". I thought he was an employee of the inn, but it seems to be different when I check well well. When I asked the inhabitants again, "I have no problem" I put the bicycle in the room. He was a passing-through young man just waiting for the bus. The young man knocks on the door when he is absent in the room. If you open the door, you are stunned by the action of sitting on the bed rather than coming into the room though not saying anything. "I came to greetings soon, so it came to a greeting", so I will hear the story after expelling it outside the door. When you are doing a bland conversation, you are going to challenge yourself to compare power with yourself, saying, "Your English, it is kind of disgusting ~". Everything was a troublesome person. By the way, although I do not know whether I am in work or business, I was talking about working in the United Arab Emirates ....

That room. Of course the bicycle is inside.


From the prejudice that "Japanese can not speak English", I was irritated to have many Indians who said "You can speak only a little English" during the conversation. In the first place, their English is Indian accent is strong, so I do not know what they are talking about. Still, because I was speaking to you from the other side, I'm trying to hear it, but I will not hold back. I think that "I can not catch yourself", but people in India think that they are "bad partners are bad".

English is an official language, but it varies from person to person.


Indian people do not line up. Immigration in Bangladesh also interrupted me. To prevent it, many windows are made up of iron pipes and partitions are made. Hospital window is in RomeThe mouth of the truthAs was the case, it was a specification that only one hand could enter at a time. The window of the train is also at a distance that you have to raise your body from the table and extend your arms. Because of this, when I needed to line up in India, I had given up thinking that the row would be protected. If you give up from the beginning, you will not get frustrated that much.

I was surprised that the world will change completely when entering Nepal from such India. The car horn in Nepal is modest compared to India. People are also soft, keeping a reasonable distance. The restaurant in the mountain path of the country was also a bus stop. Two babies are mischievous when they are collecting information by bicycle. It is dangerous and dangerous as it will straddle the saddle. Even if I was injured and injured I was not able to take responsibility, and raising a voice saying "Hey he", the mother who became the form of a demon flew away and pulled the children without saying absence. A mother who tells something to the two who shoulder and shun. I'm sorry, but it is becoming an adult like this. Meanwhile, an adult who is old when it is India will tinker with a sticky person and a bicycle without permission.

It was calm Nepal.


I thought that "Indians are strongly pushing" while traveling. It is not an exaggeration to say that population pressure is not to say that if you walk on the road it will hit people. Anyway, I will go back and forward. A voice calling people unnecessarily though it is not for great use. Even though I want to talk, I do not even move from myself, even though I want to talk. Besides being strong pushing, it lacks humility. Despite the narrow back alley, I wonder how rushing around with a horny horn while ringing a horn. Like Sri Lanka and Nepal, I did not see how to add hands to money exchange. I felt the air that was bad, bad and bad.

Downtown strikes people.


It was messy.


Take care and have a nice trip
Although I spelled only complaints, the city of Kolkata, which became the last city, for India the city was beautiful and easy to spend. Since the cycle rickshaw can not come in the center, the flow of traffic is also really smooth. It seems there is an obligation to wear, everyone riding a motorcycle in town was doing a helmet. Since the southern part such as Chennai and Bangalore has not visited this time, there may be a different Indian there too.

Kolkata had a certain order maintained.


A sign for wearing a helmet.


I wish I had nothing on a trip, but in a border town with Nepal called Raxaul, I was involved with two young people despite being in the middle of the daytime, so I ran away to a nearby shop. There is eyes when walking, ignoring what was stopped, since then I will try to catch my arms and I do not understand the reason. I had an angry face throughout all the time. I do not know what I wanted to do.

People talking to sightseeing spots regardless of Japanese or English can not be trusted, so I ignored them. You have to defend yourself yourself. Those who visit India, please be careful. If India is a safe country, a more peaceful society should be built.

(Sentence / photo: Takuya S. Narou Charriderman
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