You can ride the bus anywhere for around $0.15. The thing I most noticed about traffic in the daytime was the NOISE! They say that over here their horn is connected to the accelerater, because if they are moving, they are honking! People everywhere! On bikes, on three wheeled bikes, carts, cars, 3-wheeled minivans, mopeds, everybody blasting through town on their horns.
The bus can be nearly empty one minute, then SLAM on the brake the next and completely fill up. And I mean COMPLETELY fill up! Standing room only doesn't do it justice!
We went to a street where the whole street was full of vendors selling food. Very unhygenic, I'm sure, but most of it was really yummy. The mutton was the best; on skewers over charcoal. Most have makeshift ovens heated by coal, you can smell coal smoke everywhere; the smog is bad enough you cannot see the sun most of the day, I only saw it briefly for about 10 minutes.
Interesting that there is still places on this earth that natives will stop and stare at foreigners. One example was a guy that was walking close by us as we were standing in the street eating and as he noticed one of us round eyes, he stopped short and did a double take and stared for a whole minute, just about two feet away from us. Then, after he apparently got an eyefull, he moved on another foot, only to have to go through the whole thing again when he saw the next one of us; this happened like 5 times til he got me, then just stopped and stared and just grinned from ear to ear, like he has never seen any thing so wild!
We had great tour guides, they showed us a lot in just 1 day. I'm really feeling the jet lag now, but I'm determined to not go to sleep til bed time...
We are just getting ready to sit down and eat some home made Mexican food at Elvis' house, so I had better go.
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