Up at 5am and we left in taxi w/Ranveer, Shalini (also from office) and Naren, her husband, who also works at the same office in a different department. We are having drinks of vodka with Limca (kind of a cross between 7-up and Squirt) and snacks of potato chips, crunchy string potatoes, spicy peanuts and moong dal (dried lentil or split green gran in India). We stopped and ate breakfast of opma or suji which is from flour and is kind of like rice served on a plate after shaping in a cup, and vada w/chutney (vada is like a plain - non sweet donut). Chutney was coconut and mint. Soup was sambahr but was spicy so i didn't eat much.
When stopped in traffic at one point, some beggar kids knocked on window and pointed to their legless brother on the median. As taught, we ignored.
We made it to the closest parking lot which was not full. I could only guess it was because it cost more.
We entered from the west. It cost $15 US for us but 70Rupees for Indians. We had to go through metal detectors and were patted down by guard. There are 2 other entrance gates, east and south. To the north is a building before you get to Taj. The Taj has a building on both sides that are exact mirror images. North side of Taj is a very wide riverbed.
On the way out I bought 2 magic bracelets for the girls which were 10 rupees each. I also bought a book of post cards.
We stopped for beer and snacks at restaurant right outside of Taj. We drove a ways and then stopped for dinner. I slept the entire way back to hotel and then another 7 or so hours at hotel.
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