After an early start leaving Bishkek we headed across the border to Kazakhstan, being careful not to mention Borat or mankinis to the guards! Slept most of the way to Almaty, apparently it's quite flat with some hilly bits if you were wondering. Had an interesting conversation with a guy at a fuel station, he started by asking how much his Merc would cost in London, then continued to tell us we didn't want to go to India as there's just elephants there - we should go to Moscow and go on the Metro as it's far better than the London Underground (he's been on that too, great traveller that he is...). Then he started asking about Osama Bin Laden (maybe he was related?). He liked it when I said George Bush was terrorist no. 2 though so I think we ended up on good terms!
Played Uno at the airport, then jumped on a plane (the first of the trip so far!) and landed in Delhi at about 11. Stepped out of the air conditioned airport and was covered in a layer of sweat within seconds - it seems monsoon season is probably not the best time to turn up here...
Apart from the incredible sweating from places I didn't know sweated, Delhi was great in a crazy way - went on TukTuks and Rickshaws and cheated death on many occasions, nearly got ripped off by just about anyone who talked to us, then collapsed at the hotel after about 3 hours outside. Had 2 curries, then got up at 5 this morning to get a taxi to the train station to train it to Agra, home of the Taj Mahal! I now hate trains even more than ever, having had a very fidgety guy's arse wedged on my shoulder for 3 hours. At least it was cheap.
Spent the rest of the day resting in our prison cell-like room (at least it has a fan), then wandered to the Taj Mahal for sunset. Shame it's cloudy and we missed it, fingers crossed for tomorrow mornings sunrise...
First impressions are that it's quite big and that's about it, but our vantage point had a big wall and a tree in the way, hopefully it'll look more impressive tomorrow when we battle our way in there to have a look around...
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