Surat
One of the most heavily populated places I stayed at when I went to India was a city called Surat. Surat is located around six hours North of Bombay. Surat has an urban-like setting and temperatures can reach well above one hundred degrees.
Walking through Surat you will notice that it is very loud. It is as loud as Wall Street in America. The streets of Surat are very small with only one lane in most places and are packed with yellow and black taxis called rikshas. The houses are small in area, very close together, and are assembled in a line. Also, most houses are made of wood and concrete and consist of two floors. The buildings are tall and many are skyscrapers that get over one hundred feet off the ground.
Just as you step outside the house in Surat there are many stores and stands that you can do all your grocery and clothing shopping at bargain prices. Since cars are very rare and expensive, people in Surat ride their bikes, walk, use a riksha, or travel in scooters to get around town. Almost everything in Surat is walking distance away so many citizens don’t have vehicles at their home.
Surat has many factories and rikshas that produce a lot of pollution. This means that the air in this city is not very clean and is polluted from the burning of diesel by rikshas and smoke from factories. As rikshas drive by, you are able to see the large cloud of smoke that they leave behind and smell the odor of diesel.
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