I’m in Bhopal, one of the most fascinating cities I’ve discovered until the moment in my journey all over India. And why is so fascinating? Well, to tell the truth is because it has nothing special. Few pages about Bhopal are written in the guides and you can see tourists hardly ever walking around the city.
For sure, the inhabitants of Bhopal feel proud of their city. They boast of having a city with two lakes (with dirty water, of course) and also with one of the biggest mosques in all Asia. This is true but Bhopal is a typical industrial Indian city: dirty, chaotic, overcrowded and overhyped. But this is quite advantageous for me. On one hand, it means that the prices are even cheaper than in other Indian cities. For instance, I got lodging for 100 rupees (1,5 euros), I can eat for 25 rupees (40 cents) and a cup of tea costs just 3 rupees (5 cents).
On the other hand, having a walk around the city you can watch a lot of fascinating scenes such as colourful dressed women waiting the bus, baggers, Muslim women totally covered and dressed on black and wretched children with broken clothes playing in the dump. There are lots of incredible beautiful and really hard images at every corner of the city. But my main interest to come to Bhopal is to visit the place where, 25 years ago, the world’s worst industrial disaster happened.
I’m in Bhopal, one of the most fascinating cities I’ve discovered until the moment in my journey all over India. And why is so fascinating? Well, to tell the truth is because it has nothing special. Few pages about Bhopal are written in the guides and you can see tourists hardly ever walking around the city. 
For sure, the inhabitants of Bhopal feel proud of their city. They boast of having a city with two lakes (with dirty water, of course) and also with one of the biggest mosques in all Asia. This is true but Bhopal is a typical industrial Indian city: dirty, chaotic, overcrowded and overhyped. But this is quite advantageous for me. On one hand, it means that the prices are even cheaper than in other Indian cities. For instance, I got lodging for 100 rupees (1,5 euros), I can eat for 25 rupees (40 cents) and a cup of tea costs just 3 rupees (5 cents).
On the other hand, having a walk around the city you can watch a lot of fascinating scenes such as colourful dressed women waiting the bus, baggers, Muslim women totally covered and dressed on black and wretched children with broken clothes playing in the dump. There are lots of incredible beautiful and really hard images at every corner of the city. But my main interest to come to Bhopal is to visit the place where, 25 years ago, the world’s worst industrial disaster happened.
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