Visit of Taj Mahal

I appologize for the lack of updates. We have pretty full schedules and so far the internet costs about $4/hour and I'm cheap.

We visited the Taj Mahal today for sunset. It was amazing. This is a touch out of order, but it's bigger than it even looks in person. A couple things you don't know is that outside the main gates their are small/poor people trying to sell you everything and behind the Taj, the king was planning on building an additional Mosk for himself in black marble. (the Taj is a morgue for his 3rd wife.) Wives one and two gave him no children. It wasn't finished because is son took over the kingdom. Long story.

We were in Jaipur, Pathcar (over 1,000 shrines in this small town), and Ajmur (Muslim and close to Pathcar which is Hindi) on the way to the temple in Ajmur this little 3 wheeled, lawn mower type taxi we were in stalled and he had to push it down the hill to kick start it. It was a two way road between 3 and 4 feet wide up a windy hill. It was Friday (holy day for the Muslim religion) so the roads were packed.

Every day our driver takes us 3-4 hours. Two reasons we have a driver. 1. Americans could never drive in India (no one follows rules and cattle just walk across the road randomly) and 2. their inexpensive.

Tomorrow we're going to see the sun rise over the Taj Mahal. It should be nice. They charge Americans $15 to enter and Indians and most other Asian countries ten cents....It's crazy!

It's about 10pm on Saturday night here, 11:30am EDT...heading to bed, gotta get up at 6am. Oh yeah, one of the girls in my group is not feeling well...my bowels are suprisingly doing better than at home. Knock on wood...I'm drinking only bottled water and being safe as possible.