The Golden Triangle in India is Delhi, Agra (Taj Mahal) and Jaipur (the Pink City). We traveled from Hyderabad to Jaipur by plane, then Jaipur to Agra by train and after Agra to Delhi by train. We stayed 2 days in Jaipur, 1 day in Agra and 1 day in Delhi.
In Agra, we concentrated on seeing the Taj Mahal and then the Agra Fort. The Taj Mahal was a mausoleum built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan for his wife who died after giving birth to their 14th child. She was one of his four wives, but apparently was his true love and on her death bed she asked him to build her a memorial of their love. The Taj Mahal took 22 years to build and both Shah Jahan and his wife are buried there. All of the detail on the Taj is inlaid semi-precious stones, none of it is painted (WOW).
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| The inlay detail |
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| People still want pictures with the "babies" |
On our way back to the parking area, the kids asked to take the camel carts. The driver offered to let L and I to ride the camel, so we did. (Excuse the picture rotation, I can't get it to work)
We spent the afternoon at the Agra Fort. Where you have a great view of the Taj. Interesting, Shah Jahan's son imprisoned him in the Agra Fort in his later years (and by imprisoned I think he still had a massive apartment and servants) because he was bankrupting them by building mausoleums. The Agra Fort is red sandstone.
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| K becoming a photographer! |
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| View of Taj from Fort. You can see where the old moat used to be. |
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| our train from agra to delhi |
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| the porters carrying our luggage to our cab, note that one of them has two suitcases on his head! |
I appoligize for the picture rotation, I couldn't get them vertical.
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