Friday 11th November 2016
I am sure that this bicycle rickshaw ride through a Delhi bazaar will be one of the highlights for me of the whole tour. It was remarkable in that the bazaar was set in very narrow lanes completely packed with people with no space visible for a person even to walk. Somehow the pedallers found not only room to travel, but to travel at speed! It was quite a surreal experience on a number of occasions to glimpse another small vehicle heading straight for us at similar speed, but just melt away a second before what seemed like an inevitable head-on collision. Our rider was particularly athletic and even managed to overtake several other rickshaws.
Jan and Ros setting off.
The alleys were narrow.
A goat in a cart, and part of a queue (male side) at an ATM. After the “demonetisation”, people were only allowed to exchange up to 2.000 rupees ($AUD 80) of the old money in banks or ATMs. This resulted in very long queues and long hours of waiting, and the facilities would often run out before everyone had a turn.
In the bazaar:
Marigolds for making garlands.
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