Day 569 - Love at first sight

As we expected yesterday, the overnight bus ride was extremely uncomfortable - lucky for Liv she probably got a combined hours worth of sleep, while Adam spent the night bracing himself to avoid slipping off his broken seat! After 12 hours on the bus we arrived on the outskirts of Delhi and the hassle attacked us at full force, with rickshaw drivers surrounding us, all wanting to take us somewhere for ridiculous prices! In the end we managed to bargain the price down for a ride to the bus stand where we caught a much cheaper local bus to the station.

As if the 12 hours of pain wasn't enough, we pretty much immediately jumped on another 5 hour bus to take us to Agra, the home of the Taj Mahal, and the beginning of a love affair. All the effort was worth it when we climbed the stairs to our hotel rooftop, had some food in our empty tummies, and got phenomenal views of the pearl of India. When our adlibing tour began there were a few destinations that we were really looking forward to, and in a sense they provided the fuel to keep going when our spirits or energy were low, and the Taj is one of those places. We feel privileged to be here, and our eyes can hardly cope. We're not sure how we're going to feel when we get a close up view at dawn tomorrow ...

Adlibing views of the pearl.