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Published: April 19th 2016
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We woke up a bit later this morning and had our breakfast in the hotel. We had to pack up our bags for transfer to the train station later. With nothing planned for today, and a 3pm departure, we were in no hurry, so we just went out strolling. At Assi Ghat, we watched the yoga class for a bit, since two of our ladies were participating. I’ve circled them in the photo. What we saw was not what we thought of as normal yoga, in that many of the folks were sitting in chairs pretty much the whole time. I think a lot of it had to do with breathing and … enlightenment. After watching the yoga class, we strolled around a bit, then headed back to the hotel. Our bags would be brought down and stored until we were ready to leave for the train to Agra. Most of the folks on our tour wanted to go back to eat lunch at the Vaatika Café and Pizzeria where we ate dinner before. I had a rather spicy dish with bread and a banana milkshake. The milkshake helped neutralize the spiciness, and tasted very good too! Manoli had a green
salad.
After a slow, relaxing lunch, we all went back to the hotel to wait our transfer to the train station. This trip, to Agra, was going to be even longer, about 13 hours, or so. Remember the “or so.” Our guide reminded us that we would not be able to get much to eat on the train and recommended we order something from the hotel to take with us. Manoli and I both opted for mixed fruit, which we figured would keep well, and be refreshing. Our bags were loaded onto several tuk-tuks and away we went. The trip was quite long, and stifling hot, but we got there in one piece. Again, our platform was the very last one out, up and down several flights of stairs. We arrived at our platform with time to spare and all congregated around a snack stand. It was funny to watch all the young Indian men staring at our young ladies. One young kid was trying to covertly take an iPhone photo of them, but got caught and embarrassed. While we were waiting for the train, I spotted a monkey sitting on the wall with a little baby.
Check out the photo. We only seen a couple of monkeys up to this point, but would see many more later in the trip. Our train arrived and we all piled on, this time almost all of us were together, plus one Indian lady that arrived late, and a Japanese girl that spent a lot of time talking and playing with our only guy, Kaeren from Australia. We kidded him about when the wedding was going to be and such.
Knowing the ride was going to be long (but not just how long at this point), after chatting for a while and eating our dinners, we all turned in around 8pm. Tomorrow, Agra, the Red Fort and the Taj Mahal!
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