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Yay, finally we get to see a world famous site in India - apart from its world famous stinkiness and dirtiness.
Tajjing the Taj Mahal
K.thambi2006-01-06 13:54:33
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Yay, finally we get to see a world famous site in India - apart from its world famous stinkiness and dirtiness.
However before that, a quick update on food. We have been eating, and eating a lot. So much so that I have developed noticable new pockets of fat on my stomach. Melenie however has managed to remain immaculately skinny thanks to her regularly bouts of food poisoning and vomiting. I am hoping to get some food poisoning soon as this may be the only way of trimming down before the end of this holiday.
Okay, so back to Agra. We started the day with breakfast. The first in India because up till now we haven't really had time for breakfast. But this breakfast was free, and it was buffet!!
The day started badly. We hopped in an autorickshaw to go to the train station to book our ticket to Varanasi that night. However, the scheming indian drove us to some other train station that was nearby but tried to charge us the full price. Luckily I guessed it was the wrong station (since it looked like some local suburban station) and refused to pay full price. I'm getting very good at being
rude to taxi drivers.
Anyway, we finally arrived at the right station only to discover that the train that we HAD to be on that night was fully booked. However, a kind taxi driver (yeah right, as if any of these Indian taxi drivers are kind) offered to help by driving us to a travel agent which had prebooked tickets we could buy. Well, since we had no other hope, we went to the travel agent and as expected had to pay almost double to get our ticket. It turns out that the way this travel agent actually ends up getting you a ticket is by bribing the train guard. I pretended that my conscience didn't hear anything about bribing and just paid the guy - you have no idea how much time we had already wasted just trying to get this ticket. The actual final break down of our ticket price
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