Taj Mahal and onwards.

Can't remember what my last entry was... Finished our driver tour, went to Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary on Wednesday (sounds dy as dust) it was and it was brill, hired bikes and had a relaxing cycle around the park, originally set up more to provide shooting opportunities for the Maharaja (shot about 4000 duck one day) then converted to protect them. Drove to Agra and saw sunrise at the Taj Mahal, incredible (and at 630 in the morning not too busy thankfully) Photos are cool but still don't do it justice.
Just after leaving Dehli, on a train to Kanpur where we're meeting Shashi (dentist and now lecturer who I worked with in Cambridge). Train journey is actually first place we've chatted with Indian people who do office jobs and the like. Everyone so friendly here, sometimes you tend to be a bit too suspicious with people cos you're waiting for the pitch but it's really more the touristy areas. Wrong to give the impression that everyone's like that, this is a big country rapidly modernising with lots of bit business and foreign investment which means offices and stuff just like everywhere else.. It's kind of like an industrial revolution here, and the associated pollution is incredible, if you want to do something for the environment, lobby for compulsory emmissions monitoring in Indian industry, cheap sale of modern auto technology (lots of US, German and Japanese cars here, though apparently it's their old engineering stock from the 80's, I may be wrong on this), and cheaper education which most people can't afford. When I achieve my goal of world dictator....
Just had a lovely train breatfast and tea, the jam tasted like Calpol, yummy!! Anyway that's all for now. Later.
Taj photos to follow btw cos only uploading last weeks photos now, this tech stuff is a work in progress and it’s dependent on my lack of knowledge combined with the lack of facilities J