Sunday, 14 September 2014

Bhagalpur: 9 September 2014

Bhagalpur: initially the streets seemed busy, but I think they were probably relatively pretty quiet

Bihar is the poorest state in India and in Bhagalpur there are more bicycles, motorbikes and rickshaws, and fewer cars, than we saw in towns in West Bengal.  It’s no less noisy though – and I was wandering round when there was a strike on (I couldn’t tell, apart from a few more closed shop fronts than usual)!

Another beautiful rickshaw


Bhagalpur is a small-medium sized Indian city, probably a largish city in most other places.  The afternoon we arrived it was hot, sticky, crowded and noisy.  We looked for a sim card for about an hour, before finding a shop selling them, at which point we realised we wouldn’t be be able to buy one without at least someone who spoke Hindi, and probably some sort of certificate of non-terrorism/good character/capability of sim ownership.  At which point I gave up and went back to the hotel for a nap with the cockroaches.









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