We recently completed our travels in Thailand and their obsession for cleanliness is mind boggling. They are remarkably looking at every fallen leaf and picking it up from the streets and pavements to make everything spic and span all the time.
We saw these elephants (video above) en route to the hotel and even they were walking on clean pavements.
We reached Krabi, it is a small beach town and if you see the cleanliness here, it is pretty exceptional.
We then jumped on a mini truck ride to our hotel and the streets in the town were outstanding well kept and didn't bump into any pot holes. As people of Indian origin and with British passports, this was a new thing for us!
Even the Highways are astonishingly of Western European standards, and in some cases better than European standards. However, in England we do see filth along the motorways, over here; we didn't see any garbage on multiple bus rides that we took.
Even in Bangkok, that is a very busy city; probably the busiest in South East Asia, they were able to keep pavements clean for people to park their bikes and get some sort of dinner sorted. Also the restaurants haven't encroached on to the pavements.
In Chiang Mai, we visited the Royal Gardens and they were spectacularly manicured gardens and looked extraordinary during our visit.
When visiting the White Temple of Chiang Rai, the whole journey looked like a movie set coming into the temple. Also within the temple, there was hardly any dirt or garbage seen anywhere.
If one visits the temples in India, they feel like a dumping ground and around the temples one would see the temple offerings were thrown in heaps. Why?
Now that was around the touristy area. When we took the train and came into Bangkok, the station is ready for the next level of growth. They have their main railway station Krung Thep Aphiwat Central Terminal ready for the high speed railway.
This station is better equipped than any Indian Train station or airport. India is doomed. Thailand is about 15-20 years ahead of India. How did India lose the race to Thailand?
And within the Bangkok city they have exceptionally well maintained parks and canal systems. People with kids and with grandparents jogging and running in early mornings & evenings. Can anyone show me one city in India with such clean canals or river systems?
These parks (Lumphini Park's video above) then get full in the evenings with people doing their exercises and enjoying their time with each other. It's an easy & cheaper way to create a healthier society. People of all capabilities and ages visit these parks to exercise. Indian government has no interest in making lives of the citizens healthier & the politicians are more corrupt than the British when they ruled India!
Even the malls are more aesthetic than the Indian malls.
....and better looking and more posh.
Those who say "India is growing" are as delusional as the cows grazing grass in the fields. The other countries have already grown and have surpassed India by decades. All India can do is dream about their past and gloat about it.
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