We arrived in Agra half a day later than planned, but fortunately we immediately got a private taxi driver for the rest of the day. For about 13 euro he will drive you wereever you wánt, or he will make an itinary. After dropping our stuff at the hotel and a quick lunch we went to the one thing to do in Agra: visit the Taj Mahal.... For Indians it is 30 cents, for non-Indians 10 euro, but in return you don't need to wait in line. As it was Saturday and super crowded, that was a great benefit.... We were more popular here than ever, and got approached many many times for people that wanted to take a picture with us.... When here, you have to take a picture of yourself holding the Taj Mahal between your fingers..... people almost take your camera to show you....
After that we visited the baby Taj Mahal, which was built before the real Taj Mahal for the family of the minister of finances.... not sure weather any of our ministers would ever be able to afford such a tomb....It was actually more beautifully decorated than the real one, with pretty patterns in marbel and colourd half gems.
We drove to sunset lookout, from where you had a very pretty view of the Taj Mahal. And then it was factory time again...this time one that sold Kasjmeer and other clothing. We still don't know how it exactly works, but they do sell beautiful things for reasonable prices, so yet again we bought some Christmas presents. We had dinner at our guesthouse with all the guests, which was nice and super tasty!
Our train was supposed to leave at 6.00 in the morning, but we now have the link to a website that tell you about the delays....so we knew in advance it had a 6 hour delay :)
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