Smog: It's Goin' Round

TigerHawk has some nice pix up re smog in Shanghai (link).

I'll see him Shanghai and raise him with this:


Got it? That's the Taj Mahal in Agra, as seen from the Taj View Hotel, taken about noontime one day last month (for a more benign view, go here). It's out there, honest. Apptly if you want to see the Taj at sunrise, you have to come in, e.g, June, when the temperature may easily reach 115 degrees.

General Thought: I guess it is some kind of irony that this greatest of all architectural monuments reposes in which has to be one of India's ugliest and most unpleasant cities.