Saturday 23 April, 10:30am.
Nearing the end of another 20 hour rail journey – this one from Mumbai to Agra. The usual chaos of families, children, vendors, ticket inspectors. The landscape is mostly flat and rocky with little green life apart from some spindly bushes and a few trees. Mountain ranges in the distance and the occasional village, cattle sheltering from the heat under the trees.
Mumbai was busy and chaotic and our time there too short except to see a little of the Colaba district – around the Gate of India and the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. Our plans to have coffee there were thwarted by the news that the coffee shop didn’t open until 4:30pm Or at least that’s what they told this rag-tag group of backpackers. The leafy streets behind there are full of decaying imperial splendour – 4 or 5 storey houses now rotting back into the ground.
In 2 hours we arrive in Agra and join the queue to see the Taj Mahal.
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