Today is my last day in India, and what a relief. The Taj was certainly the highlight of my time in India, but the country was not quite done with me. Delhi is famous for the hustle and bustle of New York transplanted onto dirt streets. Instead of taxis, there are rickshaws. Instead of businessmen, there are laborers with cattle-drawn carts (everything from oxen to camels). Instead of stunning models, there are women veiled behind the colors of the rainbow. At least the honking is the same.

Some of the day’s highlights were India’s largest mosque (standing capacity of over 25,000 people), the Red Fort, a Subway sandwich restaurant, and a fun afternoon with a rickshaw driver…

I had one last wish from India: to see a snake charmer. Although I hate snakes, and cobras in particular, it is something I could not miss. I hailed a driver and he agreed to help me out – if I helped him out.

He took me to five different emporiums, leaving me at each one for fifteen minutes to look around as a potential buyer (he received commission for bringing a tourist). It was a lot of fun because I adopted a new story at each location, and was free to look at all the best things for sale, including: a 10,000 pound marble elephant with inlaid gems, silver knives with sapphires and rubies (“for my father, the heart surgeon”), tremendous jade carvings, and so on. This was the perfect way to see all the city’s sights, as it cost me absolutely nothing.