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Wow, very nice post! I was thinking about visiting India myself, where in India did you visit?
Wow, very nice post! I was thinking about visiting India myself, where in India did you visit?
Thanks! As others say - India is not a country for everyone, but I would definitely recommend you to visit it anyway. I spent 1 week in Puri (Odisha) and almost 2 weeks in Vrindavan (small city near Agra where Taj Mahal is).
Did you see the Taj Mahal? I always wanted to see it, one of my main reasons of wanting to go to India.
Yes, I've seen it. I don't want to ruin your hopes, but trip to Taj Mahal wasn't one of the greatest trips. First of all, everything is so overpriced there. Then we have people who follow your every step and try to sell you something. With every no that you say they drop the price drastically. It's really hard to hold on against them. Also, I think it was just mine and my group's mistake, but we got a scammer guide. He told that he is there for us to get rid of the fake guides who charge a lot. So we trusted him since he said he won't take any money from us because his service is included in the ticket price and also he takes pictures for free. After a really bad tour around Taj Mahal (he was always in a hurry, didn't let us enjoy it and didn't let me take a lot of pictures) we were charged with ₹2600 (about 32 euro). It doesn't seem much, but it was our last day there and we were pretty much packed all of our stuff to leave and also didn't had any cash left. We had to pay to driver to get us home also. After arguing for about half an hour we had to give him money. So I somehow managed to find ₹2000 and he accepted it and quickly ran away.
My god! Didn't know there were these kind of people, you'd expect these kind of people to be not allowed around such a beautiful stucture which has lots of foreign tourists as well.