Breakfast over we took to the bus for the short trip to the ‘battery bus”. Diesel busses are not allowed within a kilometre or so of the Taj Mahal to cut down the pollution so electric vehicles are required to convey tourists to within 300 metres of the entrance gate. As you can imagine it was a very busy approach road with camel carts, horse drawn carriages, bicycle rickshaws to name but a few of the other conveyances all-plying for trade.
Our driver set of at break neck speed down the centre of this road, horn blazing and he did not lift his foot off the pedal for one second. Susie and Hugh – a couple I got to know – were sitting next to the driver and were both shaking by the time we got to the entrance!! Dorrinder told us that this is why most Indians are Hindus since they all can have their personal gods to look after them in this mayhem.
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