I left Pushkar this morning at 8:30am and arrived in Agra around 5:30pm. Todays driving was the least stressful of all my drives in India so far. There were some parts where two lanes were dedicated to a particular direction which was nice, but that didn’t stop some drivers from driving on the wrong side of the divided highway.

I am writing this post just outside of my hotel in Agra in a  Internet cafe that is more dungeon than cafe. Next to this computer filled dungeon is a narrow alley with several weaving looms with what looks like young teenagers weaving rugs. They have thier bare feet and hands in action. Similar to spiders weaving a web. I wouldn’t call it a sweatshop but it doesn’t look far from it.

Agra is certainly nothing to get excited about. It really seems like the worst of India. The pollution here is extreme. I can’t see much more than 400 yards if that. The only reason I am here is so that I can see the Taj Mahal early tomorrow morning. My plan is to get to the Taj Mahal around 6:30am. The sun will rise around 7:00am. I aim to spend about an hour and half at the Taj Mahal. Then I will drive to the Delhi airport (about a four hour drive) where I will fly to Varanasi, where I will spend my remaining four nights in India.