Traveling from Agra (home of the Taj Mahal) to Ludhiana is a distance of 528Km. The trains were booked solid; standing room only. The planes schedules required a stop over in New Delhi so the only other choice was a car and driver. That way we get to see some country side. Let me try to describe the 12 hr trip. You have to try and imagine a highway that has many modes of transportation; pedestrians, (buffalo, horses, oxen, camels - these four are pulling carts) farm tractors, farm trucks, bicycles, scooters, motorcycles, three wheeled taxi's, small cars, crv trucks, small buses, big buses, 1-ton trucks, 3-ton trucks, and semi trailers. Now put some sheep, dogs, cows an the road sides and creating 6 lanes on a 2 lane highway. During this trip we saw three trucks over turned because of top heavy loads. Traveling through Delhi, a motorcycle ran into another motorcycle right behind us. A woman and child (no helmets) riding on one of the bikes ended up on the medium (amazingly unhurt). North of Delhi (about 3hrs) as we sitting waiting for the stop light, a car rear ended another car next to us. ( It turned out the driver of the car that ran into the back end of the other car was drunk). It is amazing that the mother with her 9 month old child on her lap were not hurt. I am sure that none of the people were wearing seat belts. The good Lord protected us again on this adventure and we saw some beautiful agricultural countryside and arrived safely.
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