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Up at 6.30 a.m. Breakfast at 7.45. I drove to the station for the 9.20 a.m. train for Agra. The train was more than an hour late & I did not reach Agra till past 2 p.m. Agra is 100 miles from Delhi (Fares came to 22R4as for a first class & a third class from Delhi). After lunch at the Hotel Cecil, which is a long way from the Cantonment station where I had arrived, I walked two miles to the Taj Mahal, which I found immensely fascinating. Looking from it down onto the Jumna I could see scores of huge river-tortoises swimming about. Their numbers were accounted for by a priest of the adjacent Mosque by the fact that the Burning Ghats of the Hindus lie just above this part of the river! The Hotel Cecil is very nicely appointed. |
