Day two was the start to my adventures to the Taj Mahal. We had to fly to Delhi. They don’t have gates at their airport and so you just take a bus straight to the plane. We watched Friends on the airplane, which made me laugh…HAHA. It was a super nice flight. Then we got in and took a bus to the hotel. The hotel was so excited that we were coming that they met us at the doors with flower necklaces and blessed us as we came in and had a HUGE flower welcome arrangement in the lobby. The next day we took a train (the Taj Express) to Agra. The train is wild. There were monkeys (like the ones you see at the zoo (BEHIND GLASS)) just wandering around looking for food. The station is so crowded with billions of people going all directions. We rode first class…but India just smells, and so it was smelly—not our version of first class. They sell Chai and tomato soup and all kinds of Indian food…none of which I was adventurous to try... all of it totally random. Nothing on the train is labeled and there are no announcements for where you are or where you are going and so you have to just ask people around you…lucky for me, I was traveling with SAS and so I didn’t have to stress out trying to figure out where we were. It was so early in the morning that everyone outside was waking up and so as we were traveling I watched people wake up out the window, look through trash for food, and gathered around small fires. The poverty here is so heartbreaking.
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