Roads are fully paved; many people
live in beautiful modern stone houses
and the amount of traffic is nothing
compared to riding through towns
and cities in India.
It may be the country of scooters,
but in contrast, never in our life did
we see so many accidents! Somehow
people tend to randomly topple over
while riding.
The situations causing these strange
events vary widely. Sometimes the
person just falls in the middle of the
road due to texting and driving, some-
times the person decides to drive
straight into a lamppost or sometimes
they are the only ones on the road, but
decide to go directly for the walkway
with the common result of losing con-
trol and crashing. And then we only
mention the people strangely falling
over, not the people crashing into
each other.
Up unti now, we don't know how
this is possible, is it just a coincidence
that we saw all this or is there some
driving improvement required? Any-
how, this doesn't take away the beauty
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this country has to offer.
Karst mountains up north, an end-
less coastline and traditional rice
fields. Wherever we went the bikes
were a good conversation start-
er. Compared to many bikes riding
around ours were huge. With huge I
really mean, high from the ground.
Especially when women see another
woman riding it they cannot hide their
admiration.
When offered to sit on the bike the
first reaction always was 'no', but even-
tually they climbed into the saddle