Yeah that's me...I'm pretty much a celebrity here (well my mom too but I pose for the pictures). I guess people have never seen white girls before (it's probably the ink too). They stare everywhere I go but you know me I don't really like attention. So I said it was hot when we arrived, well that doesn't compare to yesterday and today. I've never sweat so much in my life...you move you sweat you breathe you sweat....see where I'm going with this? The monsoon rain come 1-2 tome a day. The environment goes really still, you can feel it....and then it rains hard for 15-20 min, but it's quite refreshing.
Yesterday we went on a 3hr train ride, there and back, to Agra which plays hos to the TAJ MAHAL!!! and the Agra fort. Indian Railways is pretty sketch, especially the stations where some people just live and beg. It's really impovershied in some (most) places and it's hard to ignore the starving children on the streets, especally when you come back to a lovely hotel and are treated to well by the tour guides.
The Taj Mahal is as beautiful as in my first year Art History textbook and it was worth the long day to see it. We had our first real Indian meal, butter chicken which they made mild spicy for me because I'm lame, rice and naan bread. I could eat it all day.
Today we went around New and Old Delhi which was interesting. We saw alot of important monuments (Ghandi's Memorial, Qunb Minar which is a sandstone tower). My favourite was probably the rickshaw ride in the Bazaar of Old Delhi where the streets are as narrow as 4ft wide, filled with sari stalls, jewellery, wedding stalls, food and spices. Incredible and scary....my mom got hit in the head with passing merchandise.
So tomorrow were off to Kolkata to see L'Arche.
Beautiful photos
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