“the density of people in India is extreme.”
Yes, it is mindboggling. What are they, the 3rd or 4th most populous country? But they are much smaller than other big countries.
India is the dirtiest, most filthy country in the world. In all my travels, nothing even comes close.
Landing in Mumbai and picked up by private car, you see nothing by gray. Grays trees, gray homes(cardboard shanties),
gray streaks of water used for cooking and urination, air so
bad that every morning I tied a clean T-shirt around my face and soaked it with bottled water. Pollution 10 times worse
than China. Birds fall from the ski dead!
Climbing up the Nats to higher elevations, like in Pune, The air gets a little better, like LA twenty years ago
on a hot summer day.
You live on bottled water. Always bought at your hotel because there is a huge market for refilling empties with
local water and selling them on the street. Even from
the hotel, you always check the seals.
I’ve been in a lot of countries, drank the water and eaten
off of street cars. Gotten sick, recovered and never gotten
sick again in the same places. India? no way!!
Last trip I took the express train from Agra to New Delhi ti catch a flight home and made a very stupid mistake. I ordered a drink. And yes, the ice cubes were contaminated. I spent four days in Zurich until I felt good enough to get on a plane for the states.
My Doc took stool samples and called me later to tell me that the lab couldn’t even begin to identify three types
of bacteria that now lived in my gut....
No more trips. The internet is a life saver!