335 Rps or a chai and beer

from Agra, I went to a small town called Fatipur Sikri, which has an enormous fort (well, all the forts are enormous...) which was abandoned after only 7 years of use.
as usual, guides come up and want you to hire them for 85Rp, but i shied away from them. but after entering the huge gates and seeing all these things in the fort, i was wishing for a guide, since there was much to understand.

i approached several tourists to see if they wanted to share a guide, but they all ran away from me. then i knew i was in trouble, since the guides knew i wanted a guide and i had lost all bargaining power.

but then a man with very good english started talking to me and said he's paid by the fort holy family and doesn't need money. i could pay "as i wish". i didn't really believe him, but his english was very good, so i'd be willing to pay something.

off we went, and turns out, he just likes to hang out with tourists. he took me around the fort and showed me great views of the palace (which helped me avoid the special foreigner entrance fee of 250 Rps).

to finish off the evening, we shared a chai then a beer. all was very good.