Things you should know before travelling in incredible India

Taj Mahal, Agra, India.

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India is a vast, dynamic, enigmatic, historic, modern, and incredible country. It has many faces to it. Its diversity is unmatched. Its mystery is un-measured. It’s dynamism and intrigue is profound and inexplicable.India has always been the seat of unique culture. Nowhere in the world will you see such contrasts. Some of them pleasant. Some glaring. Some of them incomprehensible.

When you are travelling in India, you are safe and un-safe at the same time. Especially if you are travelling India’s vast rural stretches. It would not be much of a problem if you were in the urban centers of India.You should understand some core Indian ways. India is a huge country, with enormous population, and enormous proportions of change that need to be handled.

Trains

A train-time in India is subject to change. You cannot bank on the timetable you saw one month ago in a catalog at the airport. Before booking a seat on a train in India, check its arrival and departure times. Also check the route it’s going to follow, and if it runs on the days which you are expecting to travel.

Check with people about places

Since India is such a diverse country, there could be conflicting opinions on the choice of places. Some people may prefer a particular place, and some may hate it. You should always ask people who have visited this place. Better ask people back in your home country to give you their recommendation. Do not ask recommendations from people in India. Because if you do, you will end up confused!

 

 

 

Transportation – Impact On The Common Man

Different modes of transportation available for the common man in cities are buses – private or public, taxis, auto-rickshaws. Some of the metros have trams, underground metros, local trains etc. Almost every Indian family has a two wheeler or a bicycle of their own. Many use their private cars for traveling. The rich and the famous use their helicopters, chartered aircrafts, yachts etc. for traveling from one place to another. To travels across from one place to another in the country we can use the roadways, waterways, railways and airways whereas to travel across countries – waterways and the airways are commonly used.

These several modes of transportation in a city, as big as the metros, are one of the major causes of traffic congestion and pollution. It has become increasingly impossible to travel in the public transport and not getting stuck for endless hours in a traffic jam. Your woes do not end here; you could be traveling for long distances, standing on your two legs because you have not found a place to sit. Such are the plights of traveling in a public transport, almost in all big cities. Furthermore, the sky rocketing prices of fuel have made it difficult to afford private taxis, auto rickshaws or even metros for the common man to travel.

On a longer duration, such kind of traveling only eats into the monthly income, making the term “saving” only a term and nothing more. To make the matters worse, in the name of development, you will find numerous roads being dug up and the work is left unfinished. The blame game starts across the various works department but the common man has to suffer in silence. Such conditions of the roads only add to traffic congestion, inaccessibility to public transport etc. It leads to lot of chaos and turmoil if there is no traffic control system at the necessary points and junctions. The chaos increases in the peak hours and to reach home is the biggest nightmare of every driver in the car, stuck amidst in the traffic.