So, now we've survived India, my summary... I'll try to state 'facts' first and save my personal opinions until the end of each bit. Place We've had a good share of coast, mountains and city. Cities - pretty much the India you hear and read about. Crap everywhere, cows and dogs wandering round, in varying states of health. Street food aplenty, cheap and tasty. Rickshaws all over the place (except Mumbai, where they're banned in the main bit of the city and it's wall to wall taxis), which are noisy smelly two-strokes, vastly inferior to their Thai counterparts, the tuk-tuk. Roads and pavements are generally pretty knackered. Horn use is universal - but it works. Traffic moves, I never saw an accident, and the driving skills and awareness are vastly better than in the UK (they
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