A 5am wake up to straighten the hair, put on the make up and select the wardrobe for the Taj photoshoot. Finally, I was ready. We walked down to the Main Street to meet our driver who too us the short distance to the Taj Mahal. We gave him a note from us both, and a toothbrush and shaving kit from the hotel. I'm not sure he understood why we gave them to him but we quite liked him! He waited for us in the car park while we got a rickshaw down and explored for the...

After demolishing the buffet breakfast, we went for a swim and a wonder around the hotel. Getting bored of the western world, we decided to head out to find some local food and buy our train tickets to Varanasi. We elected to go for a package station/meal combo deal with our 64 year old man who was teaching his friends sons to drive tuktuks. We got our tickets then went for a delicious dinner of paneer and mushroom mutter. On the way back we stopped off at a souv...