How hot is India?

Except for high-altitude mountainous areas like Darjeeling, almost all India has a high temperature above 40 degrees.

Two places are quite impressive.

One is the holy city of varanasi on the banks of the Yokogawa River. The highest temperature is 48 degrees, and power is often cut off in the morning and evening. Air conditioning is a luxury. The travel schedule must be adjusted. I have to get up at 5 o'clock every morning. I have to find a restaurant or cafe with a generator before 10 and come out after 4 pm. There are two kinds of so-called air conditioners in the local area, one is air conditioner and the other is air conditioner. Air conditioning is to put ice cubes in the machine to send out cool air, which is probably more energy-saving, and many open-air restaurants will use it.

One day at noon, in order to taste the apple pie recommended by LP, I walked up the steps along Yokogawa, completely barrier-free. I bought a bottle of frozen mineral water on the way and stuck it on my body to cool down. When I arrived at the restaurant, I was told that there were only outdoor dining seats, but there was air conditioning. Because it was too hot for dogs, I had to sit down. Although there are four air conditioners blowing on the opposite side, it is only circulating hot air, and the body is scorching heat wave, and all the sweat evaporates, so I can't feel a trace of coolness at all. Not far away is the Ganges crematorium. A group of people carried the body to the funeral. Probably, the deceased was someone who could not be buried in water, so he chose to be cremated by the river. Through that fire, they felt that the whole surface of the Ganges was burning, and they could clearly see the tumbling and transpiration at the junction of water and air.

How to experience that feeling? Maybe you can try to stay in the courtyard of an office building with four or five outdoor air conditioners in summer.

The second place is Agra, the city where the Taj Mahal is located. The day we went was about 45 degrees, because we had to go barefoot during the tour, but how hot the white marble was after a day's sun exposure! That's ants on hot bricks! Later, regardless of the image, I jumped up like a zombie to relieve some pain.

Then let's talk about why India is so hot.

1. Just like people in India can freeze to death in winter, most of the dead live in slums, usually naked and sleep in the open air, and may freeze to death as soon as they sleep, or they are too hot to have the consciousness of heatstroke.

Many Indians earn money by coolies. At the high temperature of 48 degrees, you can still see many elderly people pulling three rounds of manpower, charging 5 yuan for 2 kilometers. If they don't work, they will have no source of food and drink. Extreme weather is prone to sudden death.

3. Dehydration is also an important reason. I once witnessed a little girl washing her hair and taking a bath in a pool full of green water. There is no running water in many areas, and drinking water is very scarce in the western region. Many people died of lack of water.