Another a 13 hr train trip compliments of India Rail we landed at Agra in the early hours of the morning. India can probably be characterised by describing the sights, sounds, smells and crowds that greet the traveller at a railway station. Everyone appears to have a destination they need to get to in a hurry and inevitably try to make a few rupees while they are at it. There are families laden down with what appears to be their worldly possessions, would-be businessmen, people going on pilgrimage, touts, coolies, holy men determined to place an orange dot on your forehead (for a price of course) and at the bottom of the food chain are the beggars of all ages. On arrival at our hotel we were greeted with the inevitable power blackout. Without warning the
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