Day 81

Day 81

Today is the day! we are excited because we’ll see the Taj Mahal! our expectations are high, so we hope it’ll fulfill them! We have to awake really early in the morning; We took the first tickets available to avoid the crowd, and maybe see the sunrise.

Our hotel is just 10 minutes walking from the Taj Mahal, so we arrive before they open the doors. And then, it’s there, just in front of us! It is a marvelous building, that can’t be denied. But for us it’s not as impressive as we thought… Maybe it’s because we are sleepy, or our expectations were to high, or due to the “silly tourists” posing dressed like locals and fighting for having the best selfie ever.

After visiting the Taj Mahal, we have breakfast and we go back to the room. Then, during the day we can’t go out… the monsoon is here and it’s raining heavily! At night we decide to go out to eat something, so we just go to grab some chicken in a fast food restaurant. Our Rickshaw driver waits for us while we have dinner. Then, we return to the hotel. On our way back a motorbike hits us. We were riding on the right lane. The motorbike appears and comes direct to us from the front; when the driver tries to avoid it, it hits my side of the rickshaw. Luckily we are fine, no injuries at all, it happens at low speed.

We hop off of the rickshaw to see how are the others (the driver and the pillion on the motorbike). They are fine too. Lots of people is coming and surrounds us, one of the guys on the motorbike starts threatening our driver. He is blaming him!!! Tià says that is not his fault, and the guy confronts him. He is totally drunk. We ask to the locals to call the police, and nobody does a thing. Then, we cannot believe what we see… The guy has a razor blade and starts threatening our driver with it near his eyes and throat!!!! What the hell is going on?!?!? We have to hide in a hotel and we try to call the police there. Everybody disappears. We spend like 15 eternal minutes trying to reach the police, NOTHING. Meanwhile the guy continues the threatening while our driver is begging, literally begging for his life. The drunk guy just stops when our driver gives him all the money that he has. That’s it. Here, a drunk rich guy hits your rickshaw, he threatens your life, nobody helps you (because you are poor), and he robs your day income (which probably menas that your family will not eat today).

The rickshaw driver fleets after paying, we still are at a hotel reception, and the drunken can’t leave because they are not capable to stand on the motorbike. We call another rickshaw and we go to the hotel. We feel like shit again, the situation was shitty, and we never paid our driver… What the FU+** just happened?! It’s hard to digest…

When we arrive to our hotel, the previous rickshaw driver comes. He is fine, and we are glad to see him. We have the opportunity to pay him. He says almost crying that the other took all his money… we give him what this disgusting “human being” robbed. At least his family will eat today.