There are various means of local transportation in India. They range from buses over the famous auto-rickshaws to tongas (horse carts), taxis, share Jeeps and cycle-rikshaws. The most common and convenient way to travel varies from region to region and town to town. For longer travels the options are normally bus or taxi, out of which the bus journeys are very strainful. In some areas there are also sleeper busses available. They are comfortable but is has to be noted that one berth is shared by two persons. Taxis are very good to travel with but generally expensive. In mountain areas share Jeep systems are commoplace in which one can buy a ticket for one of the eight seats.

Some regions are having very special local transports like the fisher boats on the Kerala backwaters, the Calcutta tram or the narrow-gorge railways of Ooty or Darjeeling. It is even sometimes possible to use helicopter connections in mountaineous areas like Sikkim. Fares for those transportation methods vary, however as they are meant to serve local business people, they are usually not sky-rocketing high.