Monday : fine Well it was a quiet train trip, the Japanese ladies were a lot better to share the cabin with than the Vietnamese ladies. I just couldn't get a decent sleep going, maybe because the bed was rock hard. Being tired wasn't the annoying thing, the train being 5hrs late to Varanasi that was. Thankfully we weren't in the over crowded part of the train. We hopped off the train and were approached by this slick looking character. He was a taxi driver, we ...

Sunday : fine The room was great, but was so noisy with all the horns. So after the late night, noisy tractors at 3am then up at 6am I was not feeling great. That didn't matter because today we were off to see the Taj Mahal. We got driven as far as the Indian officials would let us. They have laws saying no petrol cars closer than 1km away, then we have to catch an electric car 700m, then walk the rest of the way to the entry. It's for protecting the taj from ...