The next day (after our day
at the Amber Fort) we woke up and decided breakfast in bed sounded delightful. We thought getting room service would be a
good way to enjoy our breakfast while avoiding people staring at us! Ha ha ha take that annoying stare people! After our breakfast we took a rigshaw ride
back to the jewelry store we had been taken to the day before, to get some
jewelry as a souvenir. The rigshaw
driver that took us to the store waited for us outside. We wanted him to take us right back to our
hotel so that we could pack and be ready to go when our driver to Agra came to
pick us up, but the guy wanted to take us and drive us to a bunch of tourist
places and other random places so we would have to pay him more. We kept telling him NO! and to just take us
back to our hotel! So he started driving
but not back to the hotel. He made a stop
in front of a cool looking museum for us to take pictures of and then he drove
us to see the Hawa Mahal which was awesome to get to see and take some pictures
of too.
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| Cool museum! |
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| Hawa Mahal! It's like a giant Indian gingerbread house! |
But after he did that we started
getting nervous and kept telling him to take us back to our hotel. He finally half-way agreed and started
driving, but while he was driving he started showing us pictures of his wife
and saying that she was really good at drawing henna, and then he started
telling us he wanted to take us back to his house to meet his family and have
his wife draw henna on us. Doesn’t that
sound like a great and totally safe idea?!
Of course we started panicking and freaking out because he wasn’t taking
us to our hotel and wanted to take us to his house instead, so (in our angry
voices) we told him to take us back to our hotel because we had a meeting we
had to go to and couldn’t be late. He
finally gave up and took us back, what a relief! Once he pulled up to the hotel, we hurried
and paid him and then ran into the hotel and up to our safe room. Not long after that our driver came to take
us back to our hotel in Agra, I was so happy to see that man! It was nice being able to have a driver come
and take us straight from Jaipur to Agra because the drive was only 4 hours (instead
of the bus which took 6 hours). But even
on this drive back our driver took us to some random place, parked the car, and
wanted us to take a shopping and tea break. We went into this little store place where a
bunch of other poor tourists were dropped off, convinced that they needed to
buy more stuff here. We walked around
for a little while but wanted to get going again so we waited by the car till
our driver decided to reappear. He drove
for another 45 minutes and then decided he needed more tea haha so we stopped
again for another tea break. Well we
finally made it back to our hotel which was lovely! We wanted to find a nice restaurant to go to
for dinner since it was our last night there; and we also thought going to a
place that served north Indian food would be a fun food experience to have. We decided to go to a place called Pinch of
Spice. So we went out and found another
rigshaw driver who said he knew where that restaurant was. The little fibber! Anyways after much driving around, he finally
found it! It was a nice restaurant that
had north Indian, Chinese, and some Italian food! Being in north India, I should have ordered
some north Indian food…. But…. I got my Italian pasta instead! (I know! Shameful!) Not gonna lie, it was super delicious! The other girls did the same too! So here we are at a north Indian restaurant
eating our Italian pasta! It was fun,
and the food was super good! After that
we made our way back to our safe hotel.
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