Our primary mode of transport here is the auto-rickshaw. As opposed to the old fashioned cycle-rickshaws, which I hear are still more common in the north of India, these ones are more like little three-wheeled motor cycles. The driver sits in the front and controls the vehicle with the handle bars (no steering wheel or pedals), and there’s room for 3 people squeezed in the back. We take one to work every day, and this is the one we hired for the day to go to Ellora.
In some of the larger cities, like Mumbai and Delhi, rickshaws are not allowed in the downtown area so you take a taxi. To be honest they are not that different from rickshaws; they are the same color, they’re cooled by the air flowing around the vehicle, the driver always tries to rip you off, and they are small. Euan and Chris were too tall to sit in the taxi properly when we were in Mumbai.
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