Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
Sunday, November 22, 2009
I took a train from Delhi to Agra this morning arriving around 9am. Took a Rickshaw straight to the Taj Mahal. Agra is just as appaling as Delhi, but when you get your first glimpse of the Taj it's incredible. I don't think I've ever seen anything so beautiful-its like a giant castle made from a marble countertop, which feels amazing on your barefeet. Its really no wonder why you have to remove your shoes to enter any tombs in India... I'm still not quite sure of everything I stepped through, but I know it includes shit, piss, and trash. Anyways, I'm glad I got there early because by the time I left the entire 30-some acre courtyard was covered with people and there was a 4 hour line to get in. Contrary to Egypt, almost all of the tourists are Indians as opposed to foreigners. I think I saw as many Indian elementary schoolers at the Taj as there are elementary schoolers are the whole East Coast of America. Of the few foreigners I did see, was a couple from Atlanta, and an older British couple who took an awesome picture of me front and center w/ the Taj-no one else, which is a miracle. Unfortuantely its gone now...
I also went to the Agra Fort, which I really enjoyed. There are a lot of temples/tombs within the fort and mokeys like to hang out all over the place, and they're not shy at all. I got some sweet pictures of them, but they're gone now...
... All of pictures from Delhi and Agra got erased, so here are pictures I scrounged up of the sites I saw.
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B that sucks that you lost your pictures. I lost some pictures over the summer and I was bummed, but your situation is much worse. I feel for you man. :(