Travel Blog: Those Roads...

India, Day 9

India has some unique roads.  They even did a series of IRT Deadliest Roads in India.  Because the roads in India are crazy dangerous.  It's not just due to an east-versus-west difference in driving styles, it's also because the roads themselves run the gamut from muddy sloughs snaking between village huts to crumbling shelfs niched into the sides of snowy mountains.  In the low country, the roads are peppered with cattle.  In the mountains, you have to look out for suicidal goats running headfirst down the mountainside.

There will be some more stories toward the end of my recap that show off the seriously dangerous mountain roads of northwest India--those roads in particular were memorable enough to warrant their own documentary at some point--but for now, enjoy a few selections from the "Monsoon Mud Collection."

India By the Numbers

8,252 miles

• Pensacola to New Delhi.

6 locations

• The number of unique places in India where I will serve.

3,375 miles

• Number of miles I will travel within India.

6 meters

• Lowest elevation I will visit.

2,205 meters

• Highest elevation I will visit.

1,028,610,328 souls

• Total population of India.

827,578,868 (80.5%)

• Hindu population.

138,188,240 (13.4%)

• Muslim population.

24,080,016 (2.3%)

• Christian population.

19,215,730 (1.9%)

• Sikh population.

7,955,207 (0.8%)

• Buddhist population.

4,225,053 (0.4%)

• Jain population.

6,639,626 (0.6%)

• Other religious affiliations.

727,588 (0.1%)

• Population of unstated religious affiliation.

There is work to be done.  It's wheels up for India in a matter of days.