Third Day, after one touring Delhi in a AutoRickshaw, and the second, off to Taj Mahal.
Sunday, yesterday, we left YMCA before dawn at 6:30 for the four hour drive to Agra. Each corner brought a new view, sights and sounds of downtown Delhi, Donkeys carrying bricks, camels pulling carts, horses with larger carts, often piled high with straw. Lorries would have people and cows in the back with dung dribbling out. Road tactic is to drive fast, find the gap, and hit the horn. If you overtake, or undertake, you use the horn and accelerator, or you just hit the horn anyway. All of life passed by babies, children, mothers, teenagers, wives hurrting to shop, men standing around, or sitting and being shaved, or facing the road or wall and p..........g.
Arrived in Agra around midday, and headed towards the Taj Mahal. Stops at lights or road crossing brought road side sellers banging on the windows.
Into Taj, and quiteness, symmetrical gardens, buildings and the Taj itself made entirely in white marble. Huge, impressive and awe inspiring. Clear blue skies with Red Kites (you don't see many of those in England) swooping and soaring. Time to go, returned to Delhi, and on to tomorrow.......
This morning we are off to Asha, to start what we have come for.
Nigel and Sue.
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