Sunday morning, 30 May 2010: The Shivganga Express brings us a little late to Delhi. With all our bags and baggage we take the next steps to get from the train station. Strangely, it is in this conversion in one direction only, so we make no idea whether it is the right one. In any case, we are at the taxi stand out and a guy offered us the ride for 30 rupees. That's pretty low, but there is off-season and our hotel is quite close to Anoop. With the greatest need we bring ourselves and our luggage into the vehicle. Hardly left us wants to make the first type, that the Anoop Hotel is 12 km away and that he knew us better. When we do not give in, he runs into a tourist office, going in and coming out says that Anoop was already full. This idiot thinks well, we would not know this scam already. On the map I see him again, where we want to go. Okay, we realize now that we have landed on the wrong side of the station, but this is just a detail. I tell him that he should now to discuss and bring us to stop Anoop. Well, for 150 rupees. What? Yes, it costs 30 rupees per person (suddenly?). His trick to get us into one of "his" hotel, where he had got a thick Commission, went into the pants. I do it one last offer of 100 rupees. He will not go away. So we load our baggage back off and let the stupid types with an empty car and quickly without having earned 100 rupees, leave again. We take 3 Veloritschkas that we pay but 50 rupees, but we like to do, because the kick in the sweltering heat, so it is also afforded us and do not cheat.
The Main Bazaar, where our hotel is located, is barely recognizable. It looks as if a bomb had struck. Actually missing only the rubble women and one would be somewhere in Germany, at the end of the 2nd World War I imagine.
As it stands, is simply widened the road. The houses have now all soft by about two-three meters and are therefore easy to the street partially demolished, stripped back, or whatever you call it.
In Anoop we check not only the store but a large part of our luggage and make us walk then again, back to the station where we catch the train to Agra . Take
In Agra, it is brutally hot, and yet we take the Hotel Sheela, which is only a few meters from the Taj Mahal is located, no AC room, because our children do not even cold to return to Switzerland. From a rooftop restaurant, we see for the first time the most famous building in the world.
Taj Mahal from the rooftop of
The next day we visit the Taj, the Taj, certainly not the Taj, then from up close. The entrance fee was increased in 2000 from a previous 15 rupees to 500. The many protests were effective. The entry was further increased to an incredible 750 rupees per person. That's India! Of course, only for Foreigners. At least, children are free up to 15 years, this is really great. There is also a bottle of water for free. Well then ...
We grab us a leader, not just anybody outside the entrance, but one that is waiting inside the Taj premises and pay for that less than half. The Taj Mahal is truly an impressive monument, even if the heat nearly overwhelmed us.
ski ski Gaga's and the Taj
Marble inlaid ornaments
The southern gateway to the Taj Mahal
Then we visit the Red Fort, the Baby Taj and look at the Taj Mahal yet from the other river.
Baby Taj
Taj Mahal from the river from
the evening, we are pretty much on the snout, but it was nice.
Since we announced our first Agratag "full power", we propose to us on Tuesday the time by taking a "pickling Tour", combined with dice and draw around the ears, because our first train leaves at 17.55 h. ..
dice until you drop
... would go at 17.55 hours. For our last train ride in India, we want to show the Indian Railways I guess we have that not all trains run on time in India. Our train comes with a half-hour delay in Agra, and the fact three and a half hour drive come again to one and a half hours late. Okay, we understand having! Would have been funny if we were told at home that go in India, all trains were on time ...
(Rémy)
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