Last day in Delhi

Well like it or not northern India is different to say the least.
We have stayed in the heart of Delhi ( the real thing, not some protected foreign tourist enclave, which there clearly are, just out of town, near the government buildings ) the first night here was mind blowing with streets by our hotel filled with people, street vendors, street food, shops and any kind of vehicle you could think of all going up and down the half metalled road with humps, bumps, holes, concrete stones protruding out of the roadway, puddles and lots of rubbish with not enough space to pass each other, all competing to get into the space to get through by edging forward and leaning on their horns to try ands frighten someone into giving in or getting out of the way, all this and people shouting to be heard gives a type of noise we are certainly not used to - it is almost deafening.
The rules of the road appear to be very different from ours too.  There are lane lines on the larger routes through the city, these appear to be to guide the user down the road rather than to separate vehicles into an orderly three lanes.  Here you can travel in any lane at any time, change lanes without signalling, you can overtake and undertake and each movement in any direction must begin with horn blowing.  When you get to traffic lights you wait as we do at the larger junctions with police controlling the masses, but on smaller junctions at a red light you can check if anyone is coming and continue your journey without stopping as long as you allow them to pass freely avoiding any collisions as they appear to do all the time.  tuck tuck travel is decidedly the bestvwaybto travel through the small streets of old Delhi but you need to have nerves of steel, and really trust the driver to get you to your destination safely.  So far we have been unharmed in any of our journeys although nerves have been on edge for most of them.
Along the routes there are also other obstacles to take into account, pedestrians take their life in their own hands when passing across a three lane highway to the middle and then another three lanes on the other side of the central reservation, confidence in the drivers is required to actually take the plungechance to get across, step forward and just keep going at the same pace and their radar will pick you up and avoiding action will be taken whilst tooting the horn in the process. Cows, bulls, dogs, goats and camels are also road hazards as these appear to be able to freely move anywhere on public roads.
The number of bikes that intersperse other forms of traffic is unbelievable, there are limillions of people most of whom travel on bikes, in all on the roads chaos rules