As we were coming into the town of Agra, I was a bit disappointed. I shouldn’t have been, but I kept thinking that for some reason, the home city of the Taj Mahal would be a bit nicer with less garbage, maybe something along the lines of Jaipur. It wasn’t. It wasn’t any worse either. It was just more of typical India. It was very crowded and busy, trashy, and the traffic was constant stop and go with lots of sitting still and waiting. People in Agra seemed to wear more Western clothing and seemed to dress nicer. The fruits and vegetables all looked good. The drivers in Agra could honk their horns as well as the rest of the people in India.

The first photo was on the road into town. This could have been taken any place. Any vehicle was always used to carry people, in addition to whatever else it was used for. This tractor and wagon was about as full as it could get. Several people had already exited by the time I snapped this photo.

The second photo was a side street from the street that we were on when entering Agra.

The third photo was just an area along the side of the road. All these photos were typical of India but just happened to be our introduction to the city of Agra, home of the Taj Mahal.