The sights we see on the roads are one of the most surprising and entertaining aspects of our trip. Most of them go past too fast to be photographed, but here are some of the road users we saw.
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| Delivering the milk |
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| A temple entrance in a village |
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| A pig's breakfast |
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| Working camels. Many seemed to be towing bricks. |
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| Three (and more) on a scooter is very common. |
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| Goats wander on all roads, including the major highways. |
There are thousands of animals everywhere, on the country roads (above) and in the towns and cities, mostly wandering about or sitting on or beside the road. Cows, goats, pigs, dogs, and buffalo are very common, and there are also many camels and occasionally sheep. In towns the roads are even more chaotic, with vehicles of every shape and size going in all directions, and people on foot wandering across busy intersections and roundabouts regardless of the traffic. Lane markings are generally completely ignored. Somehow everyone seems to emerge unscathed.
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| A cow dozing on a busy four lane road, between our van and the median strip. |
Even on major highways you encounter goats and cows wandering across the road. On a four lane road we passed a cow standing on the dotted line in the middle of our lanes with traffic whistling past on each side. The traffic just parts around any such animals, and they seem to plod across the roads without injury. Mind you they are sacred cows, of course.
