We left Agra it was mercilessly hot visited the Taj and the Red fort both impressive.
Shouuld have got Air con in Hotel Sheela as the rooms were very hot. Much laying about under wet sarongs. Meredith and I decided to go to Dargeeling from here and John went to Varanessi.
We got a bus to Marthua which is a holy town where Lord Krishna visited or may have even been born there. Small population and all appeared very devout. Hotel was pretty ghastly though we did have noisy air con and they cooked us a very nice Vege Thali. Had a boat trip round the river before dinner all very beautiful farland on one side and town on the other . Needless to say there were more animals in the town than on the grazing land cows and monkeys wandered the narrow streets and of course the usual number of dogs everywhere
Next morning we got up early to be driven to Delhi to get a flite on the spice jet to Bagdogra. While sitting waiting for the car in the early dawn we watched the families going to work and also going down to bathe in the river. The women looked beautiful in their coloured saris and so graceful. Perfect posture I think carrying large loads on your head help this maybe!
It is impossible to capture all this on camera one man had set up his shaving stall on a sheet of paper on the terrace by the river. Our car arrived and we were off
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