Drove on and on and on south. We were driving along a new motorway called Yamuna expressway. After a couple of hours we spotted some common cranes. Then after another half hour some Sarus cranes. The expressway ended and we turned back in the national road 2 and straight into the traffic hell of Agra. It took about an hour to get through but the bonus was the Taj Mahal.
After Agra we bumped along a B road which made our poor road surfaces seem like a baby's bottom! Dogs, camels, water buffalo, bullocks, donkeys, horses, trishaws, tuk tuk, lorries, buses, carts, chai wallah, pedestrians, cars, hooting, braking, acceleration, swerve, brake, laugh, gasp.... It was sensory overload!
I turned on google maps and we eventually found the turning for chambal safari lodge. Seven and a half hours from New Delhi airport ..and we think there is a shorter road avoiding Agra. It should have taken five.
Everything felt damp in our room because it had rained recently for 10 days. We ate a delicious meal and flopped into bed with two hot water bottles each, utterly exhausted.
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