TajMahal

Delhi day 8. Today was a whirlwind day. Up early at 6 am to get ready for breakfast with our new Canadian friend at 7am, then ready to leave for the taj at 8am. A quick stop off to pick up Our other new friends "australia 1" from india luxury homes and we were on our way. The car journey to the taj mahal was totally an experience in itself. Over 3 hours sitting in this tiny Toyota van. It had air con which was certainly a prerequisite. Once he sound of car horns beeping had all but gone we were on a massive 3 lane freeway, ALONE! Seriously there were next to no cars using this road, apart from the odd car that was traveling at about 180kmh. Loooooong Boring straight road.

We arrived in Agra and were greeted by a tour guide who pushed his way into the van. Hahahahaha next to Tim. This bloke had mega amounts of hair growing from his ears so we subtly stopped referring to him via his real name "jac" and renamed him "alf" (for those that remember from the tv show). Alf seemed nice enough and genuine so we went with the flow. He gave us advice not to talk to or shop at any of the shops along the road and to not even look at people if they spoke to us??? We trusted he had our best interests in mind. He was adamant that when he speak we stop taking photos and be quiet?? Wtf were we back in school?? But we all still went along. The taj mahal was really a fabulous place to visit, we highly recommend a visit. Alf (mr tour guide) then took us to a shop that sold all sorts of over priced things and we spent $310.00 on gifts. (all part of the experience). Only thing to note is that we would have preferred to visit without the guide, I don't think you really need him.

So back in Rahul's little Toyota van the 5 of us "crammed" and off we went for our long journey back to Delhi. On the way back our Canadian friend had to pop by SCI as his surrogate had changed and therefore so did his contract. So after a quick detour there we headed backs to the svelte to get ready and head out to the spice market for dinner.