NH1

The nation hightway #1. Please, don't exaggerate of the "grand" project. It was such a crappy road, not even funny. The first picture was taken from our car, the second was on the side of NH1.

That's as wide as the road will go. 2 lane of traffic to allow anything from donkey carts to tutu to different sized of lorries, to Suzuki Swifts, to 4x4's all fighting for the 2 lane road. And drivers practice being a pilot directing a plane to runway taxing by following the "dotted" line rather than staying IN THE LANE! Many times, we had to slow down because there were oncoming traffic towards us in the wrong direction because the driver wanted to get to somewhere. All I could say was utterly chaos.

We were on NH1 because Kingfisher cancel our flight from Shimla back to Delhi. We started at 6am, made it to the outskirt of Delhi by 11:40am or so. But then, took us till 2pm before we reached our Delhi hotel in the South. Traffic. That was all. And tolls. Some were blatantly a rip-off. One we had to pay had only a small sign on the road; then we made a sharp left turn, all I saw was broken road with potholes that needed a 4wheel drive to conquer. Then the toll booth was totally falling apart with no maintenance. And the approach to the toll booth was not paved so that I saw two big ruts just as deep as my knees. Then after we paid, we were stopped by these inspectors to check the ticket that we just bought about 10 feet away. He checked the ticket and then stamped it. We were on our way again. Pathetic was all I could say. O yeah, forget about signs. It was more an afterthought. I always complained about the US highway signs, well this place took first place.

Coming here is just like "how much these people going to rip me off?".