Saturday 12 December It's just a quiet day. Malcolm still feels awful so he rests and I read. The most interesting thing was a monkey walking by on our balcony! At first in thought it was a cat or dog, but we are two stories up! The guide comes to check on us a few times. In the afternoon we go and get some money exchanged, and Malcolm rests again when we get back. In the evening we have drinks and dinner with the Aussie couple before retiring to our room. We...

Friday 11 December The train trip keeps going and going! I thought it was supposed to be about 12 hours. But it's more like 15. It's about 12:30 by the time we get off and into tok tok's. At the hotel our rooms are not ready so we go have lunch. I do not feel like food at all. But it tastes alright. In our room we have pathetic, but warm showers. Soon it's 3pm and we are off through the city. The noise and craziness of the roads is not fun. Apparently the presid...

Thursday 10 December How Mosquitos get into a shut room I'm not sure. And they are huge! We get up and ready before 6 am so we can leave for the Taj Mahal. They have blocked the petrol and like motors and factories for about 1 km to try and help with the smog and pollution around the Taj. We take the bus, then an electric golf cart thingy. It's dark when we get in line and it slowly lightens up. Once through security we hurry to the first platform in order to g...

Wednesday 9 December Such a good sleep. Up, packed and breakfasted by 7:45 and off we go to the bus station. We have to wait for the bus to arrive and ppl to board then we are off. The horn on the bus is awful and the driver uses it a lot. We have one stop for toilets and food. There are monkeys at the rest area. They are interesting to watch. I try and snooze in the bus and do more reading. At the stop in Agra we then take a small bus to the hotel. We decide n...

Tuesday 8 December It's so nice to not get up early! The buffet breakfast is good and we try and get enough so we won't need lunch. When the tok tok's arrive we head off to the main fort and palace. It's a new driver and he talks and asks lots of questions. We pass the floating palace on the way. We walk up the fort and there are lots of elephants walking up too. It's a little sad to see them in this way. At the fort we get a guide and spend a few hours wanderi...