The most popular form of transport in India is the train. There are about 11,000 trains and most of them run on steam. Of course the trains tend to run between cities and large towns, not the small villages, making these places very difficult to get to.

Although there are cars and motorbikes in this area the roads are not good.	The roads are getting better in India but only the ones in big towns and cities are covered like our roads. This photo shows that the people living in this town do have bikes, motorbikes and even cars but they must find it very difficult because the roads are not good.
This taxi works in rural areas. Most of his customers are probably tourists because not many of the Indian people living here can afford to pay him.

Many villages are a long way away from the good roads and because very few people in India can afford to buy their own car they don’t travel very far. The roads between small villages are usually just covered in dirt. So in the countryside people travel from one village to another by camel, tonga (horse drawn cart) or a cart pulled by a bullock.

Other transport that might be seen in the bigger areas are rickshaws. These are normally pulled by hand but some now have small motorbike engines in them making them faster or they have a bicycle at the front and have to be peddled.

This rickshaw is a better one. It has an engine and a roof.

Buses going from city to city can get very crowded.

City street crowded with vehicles, people and animals.

City streets are crowded with scooters, motorbikes, lorries, buses, taxis, cycle rickshaws and ones with engines, hundreds of people on bikes and even cows!

India has 4 international airports that aeroplanes can use to fly in and out of the country. There are also nearly 100 other airports that are used for travelling from one part of India to another.

Ships use Bombay to load and unload goods. It is the largest port in India. It handles a quarter of all the ships and boats that come in to India.