India, Day 5 - 7, Sunday-Tuesday early The Taj Mahal - its very name conjures up visions of beauty, purity, perfection, and gleaming clean whiteness. What a shame then that the town it's located in doesn't! What a hovel, steaming, turgid, turd ridden, falling down, traffic jammed, cess pit mess Agra is. The 'rough' areas of Delhi that we walked through weren't a patch on grotty Agra. At least the hotel we were booked into was geared up for tourists, though internet was, once again, flaky and practically inaccessible in our room even though there was a router in the corridor immediately above our door. We had an early start on Monday for sunrise at the Taj Mahal before breakfast. Not so early as to join the queue for 2 hours before opening, as apparently many
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