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Mangalore is my first taste of a non touristic every day working Indian city. I'm stopping here for a day enroute from Goa to Kerala. I got here at 7am and I had planned to stay here the night to recover from the overnight bus trip. The bus to Kerala doesn't leave until 8.30 at night though, so I am out of here tonight as there is no reason to spend two whole days here.

Indian urban infrastructure is jerry-built at best, and in Mangalore you can see it in all its shambolic glory. You will be lucky to find 3 contiguous metres of unbroken footpath.



I passed a building site, while not typical, that's not out of place in the way things are done in India. On a normal construction site, demolishing and clearing the old structure first is de rigueur. As this photo shows, the construction of the new building is going on the same time as the demolition of the old building on the same block.



There is nothing much to see here but I thought I would go walkabout. The combination of dishevelled footpaths and a night without sleep defeated quickly. So I went back to the hotel to have an afternoon snooze to prepare for tonights overnight bus trip.

Labels: india, infrastructure, mangalore

Posted by James Clark - editor of itravelnet.com
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