From Akbar’s Tomb it is back through traffic towards our hotel. However our driver proposes that on the way we should stop to see an Inlayed Marble store where they would perform a short demonstration showing us how the inlayed marble we see everywhere in Agra is made. It sounds like an interesting idea and maybe, maybe we can even find something to buy as a souvenir.
The demo is first showing us the different types of stones that are used and how they are inserted into the marble creating the beautiful inlayed marble. But of course they are much more eager to take us downstairs to their showroom and not let us from their sight trying to sell us something/anything.
The exhibits are beautiful but expensive and in the end we choose a small table that we can actually carry to the US even though they are trying hard to push us towards the larger tables. And then they show us the second showroom with smaller and cheaper objects that we asked them for repeatedly and said they don’t have, quite a scam in a way. But what we bought is beautiful enough and we leave for the hotel without buying anything else.
And then it is time to eat dinner, our last dinner outside Delhi, and we celebrate it with a good homemade dinner with gulab jamun from the homestay. They are quite good at making it less spicy and the food is that much better for it. And then we go to sleep or so we assume but we have another unexpected experience, the shower drain, not used by us at all, backs up, and of course the shower here is lumped together with the toilet. As the level of water/sewage grows we run downstairs to bring help and they come up and fix it after an hour of fighting and cleaning afterwards. And so we go to sleep only around midnight after quite an eventful day.
