India 2017, part 4 - Rajasthan (and Mumbai)

Rajasthan and last day in Mumbai, August 12-15.
August 12.

We left early in the morning, a bit begrudgingly because Agra was by far our best experience in India up to that point.  The guide, the hotel, the city itself far surpassed our expectations.  But we had an itinerary to keep, so we headed off on the national highway towards Jaipur, a cultural and historical capital in Rajasthan, a few hundred miles to the southeast.  It seemed that the city of Agra itself was never-ending, and a few people kept asking when we'd end up on the highway.  My best friend's husband pointed out that we were on a highway.  It was just a national highway, and since the Agra-Jaipur road isn't as touristy as New Delhi-Agra, it wasn't a fancy Western-style highway like the one we'd been on on our way to Agra.  It was basically like driving through back roads, with no lane dividers, so you'd get experiences like this:

Yeah...

Seriously, roads in India technically have the same rules we do in the West (only they drive on the left side instead of the right, like in the UK), only they're really more "guidelines than actual rules", to quote Pirates of the Caribbean.  I really don't think I could ever complain about traffic in New York City or New Jersey ever again.