First thing this morning, I accompanied the hotel manager to the barber. The guy completely avoided eye contact with me, so I think he knew this was coming. A brief argument ensued, during which the owner said that the price was completely wrong and that I would be going to the police if I didn't get a partial refund. The barber eventually coughed up Rs 100, and attempted to apologise to me, which I was loth to accept. So I ended up paying the right(ish) price for a (bad) haircut, but I didn't make any friends in the process, and the whole experience left quite a bitter taste. Since I had visited almost everything in Orchha yesterday, I only had a few outlying monuments on the agenda for today. None of them were of more interest
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