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| Susan visited the Chithra Cultural Center south of Chennai. Here her guide poses in front of a cart used to parade around the temple idols during festivals.
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| Temple complex at Chithra.
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| Dance group. They travel India presenting the Mahabarita. It takes 6 hours, so they also offer an abridged, one hour version for ignorant, impatient westerners.
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| Agra is the home of the Taj Mahal. But first we got dragged to a shopping exposition. They did show us a loom and made one knot on it. This unusual rug features designs from the Taj Mahal. I bought nothing.
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| Next we visited the Red Fort. I was eager to see it since it features in the Sherlock Holmes novel, The Sign of the Four. However, 80% of the fort is still in use by the Indian army and is closed to the public.
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| The Taj is visible from the Red Fort. In Agra, the majority of tourists were Indian.
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| Sometimes my camera is of no interest to my subjects.
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| As everywhere in India, we found wild monkeys in the fort.
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| Transport and drivers were everywhere in India. Espcially in tourist areas.
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