Agra and the Taj Mahal

Well, the Taj Mahal is brilliant. Liz and I walked in through the main gate to see the magnificent view that is in all of the pictures that you see. There was a ton of people there trying to take pictures of themselves in front of the long mirror pool along the walkway to the entrance to the Taj. Our first glimpse of the Taj Mahal had been from the car, where the place seemed quite small along the river, but from here, you can really embrace how huge the place really is.

Today was the start of a three day celebration of the anniversary the Taj Mahal, thus entrance was free for everyone, and everyone came to see the place. They also opened up the chamber to the actual underground tombs which I went to see. You basically take a long flight of stairs down down down into this humid sweat vapor filled candle lit room at the bottom to see the tomb of the king and queen. There are a bunch of people stumbling barefoot up and down the stairs in the pitch black stairway. We all get a little cosey and I am reminded of that scene where Ben Stiller gets a face full of sweaty belly while playing basketball.