- when all else fails go to sleep
It never ceases to amaze me just how much can be moved by a cycle rickshaw. Anything between 1 and 6 people manage to get on a cycle rickshaw that is meant for 2 people! Even that is pushing i. Can you believe it I often have to take a rickshaw, not to carry anything, but to enable me to cross the road!
Take Jaipur as a good example, main road 2 lanes, solid and impossible to cross, why because of what is on the road. Jeeps, cars,bicycles, horses, horse and cart, camels,elephant, dogs, goats, buses, lorries, people,children and usually someone playing a flute and selling yellow dusters at the same time. Holy men in orange making their way to the temple. What do you find at the roundabout a policeman puffing away on a biddi scratching his scrotum. A regular pastime in India. I have never been sure as to whether they are just checking that all is ok or there really is an itch.
Unfortunately I fell off a rickshaw on my last tour only to see all of the above coming towards me as I lay on the road. Moving as swiftly as possible and climbing back on the rickshaw, I was just in time to see the driver straighten his turban, have a scratch, nod his head and peddle off! Watch this space for more tales from the tour leader!!!
- oil drums – no problem
- well, this takes the biscuit the boss said it was a small load!
- keep your mind on the traffic
casamulo 