little different though as his hair had grown, and was quite curly!! We said hello and were introduced to two of his friends, but being quite crap with names we’ve forgotten them! We’ll update this as soon as we’ve asked Noah!! They had arranged Rickshaws for the day to see all the sights of Agra, and even though we were quite tired we decided to go with them that day, and another rickshaw was arranged. Noah’s girlfriend, Melissa, was feeling a bit iffy as she’d got food poisoning almost as soon as she arrived in India, and after the camel camp I really did sympathise!!

So off we went in a three rickshaw convoy to explore Agra. We had been advised to leave the Taj Mahal till last as it looked far better at sunset. This seemed reasonable, so we headed off to the Itimad-ud-Daulah, which has the nickname of “Baby Taj”, as it has many of the design elements of the Taj, and was built

22 years earlier. On the way, we passed Agra fort, which looked quite impressive, and got our first glimpse of the Taj from quite a way off. We got stuck in a traffic jam on the bridge over the river Yamuna as there was a rickshaw whose front wheel had fallen off!!!

Although Agra was obviously a very busy and industrial city, and the Yamuna was a polluted river, it did seem to have a charm of it’s own, particularly if you squinted and ignored the rough edges!!! We sat on the banks of the river at the baby Taj, and it seemed almost peaceful! We also saw the friendliest chipmunk so far, he was almost eating nuts out of our hands!!

Onwards to Agra fort after that, and although it was quite expensive to get in, and Noah and I weren’t really sure we were that bothered about seeing