Might interest some of you. here's some old pictures from 1987 & 1988 of indian transport & roads. Sorry, quality is not that good as scanned from colourslides.
First the roads; back then roads were a single lane paved with brittle and broken asphalt at most as seen here in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh on the way to Dharamsala:
By then the best way to go up there was by "bus", just imagine what it looked inside........Every pass of another vehicle was a 'near miss' by that time as they kept on speeding towards each other and only in the last minute both moved to a very uneven & unstable side of the road:
Common transport on buses and trains came down to this:
Advantage was always once the bus crashed you could get easily off the roof and not so seriously injured like the ones inside.....
Standard transportation in Vadodara looked like this:
You took ice in your drinks only once until you saw how it was delivered:
The daily downpours in Udaipur looked something like this and you avoided contact with the brownish smelly mess that was flowing down the roads...........
In Kathamndu/Nepal, the most common truck looked like this:
So whenever you go to India or Nepal, don't expect too much of a comfort while travelling, things have changed, I know but would be very short of the comfort & standard we have here in Thailand. Cheers, Franz
First the roads; back then roads were a single lane paved with brittle and broken asphalt at most as seen here in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh on the way to Dharamsala:
By then the best way to go up there was by "bus", just imagine what it looked inside........Every pass of another vehicle was a 'near miss' by that time as they kept on speeding towards each other and only in the last minute both moved to a very uneven & unstable side of the road:
Common transport on buses and trains came down to this:
Advantage was always once the bus crashed you could get easily off the roof and not so seriously injured like the ones inside.....
Standard transportation in Vadodara looked like this:
You took ice in your drinks only once until you saw how it was delivered:
The daily downpours in Udaipur looked something like this and you avoided contact with the brownish smelly mess that was flowing down the roads...........
In Kathamndu/Nepal, the most common truck looked like this:
So whenever you go to India or Nepal, don't expect too much of a comfort while travelling, things have changed, I know but would be very short of the comfort & standard we have here in Thailand. Cheers, Franz