Up at 5 am away at 7am, said goodbyes to the monks at the Asoka Mission just south of Delhi. Left the camp nearly empty, left the 2 Swiss blokes in the Volkswagen they lost a wheel 3 times, had it welded in Delhi. Then we meet them again in Agra just outside the Taj Mahal same problem, we tried to sell it for 1500 rupee but there was to much import duty to be paid. We had a meal in town with them and slept near the Taj. They stayed at a tourist home 14 rupee a 3 bed room. Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan commissioned the Taj Mahal as a mausoleum for his favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal. Its made of pure white marble and in the centre is the tomb of his wife who died after 12 years of marriage and 14 children he died 5 years later and is buried beside her. The temperature in the sun was unbearable but in the tomb it was really cool, everything was solid white marble.
The 3 of us outside the Taj Mahal Agra
Me at Taj Mahal Agra India 1970