You just never run out of homes, villages, towns, cities, rice paddies, lotus ponds, and corn. The heavy, chocking smog is almost as bad as Bangkok, Thailand, or at times, worse. The price of the new industrial revolution. You cannot believe the traffic. It is death-defying.
Shanghai is ultra-modern by comparison.
At one point, in an area where there are two lanes in each direction, we faced up to five lanes of traffic coming at us, and we kept on going, just found a space and kept moving. The sea of people mesmerize you into thinking a river is flowing. Everything is hauled by bike in the middle of the crowded streets, rickshaws, trucks, busses, people, scooters, all just pointing and going, the only rule is not to stop. In every town, and that's every km, there are open markets taking up two lanes on each side of the road, leaving only a trail to thread through. Among all this chaos you will find 3 to 5 year old children standing on the back of a bike hanging on the shoulders of their dad.