Up early, a quick breakfast and on the road by 8am. For the first hour, through Agra and outside, it was a slow, slow journey. As always it was people of all kinds, vehicles of all sorts and animals galore, cows, monkeys, goats everywhere. Shops and street sellers all around and, sadly, the ever present piles of rubbish wherever you look.

We had a very quick breakfast and were out in the minibus and on our way by 8.30am. It was already quite hot and promised to get much hotter before long. Jaipur is much smaller than Mumbai, but still home to around 5 million people. Even early in the day the traffic is crazy with people of all types, cows, camels, cars, buses, pony carts, tuk tuks, all kinds of humanity in every direction. All very lively and certainly very noisy! We turned in through a gateway ...