Namaste! Today we traveled from New Delhi to Agra! It was about a 5 hour bus ride, and the Indian landscape is just so different, with trash, dirt, and even cows everywhere. Cows literally roam the streets like they own the place. I’ve also seen monkeys, camels, donkeys, dogs, and goats everywhere. It’s kind of strange but kind of awesome.
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| monkeys! |
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| family motorcycle |
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| snake charmers |
Agra is a quite different from New Delhi. It seems a little bit wealthier, with more stores and shopping centers as well as more women out on the streets and on motorbikes. In New Delhi we hardly saw any women out on the town. I’m not really sure why. Maybe because it was more of a Muslim population there.
We started out our tour of Agra by visiting the Taj Mahal! That’s two world wonders we’ve seen in a month :). It was built by the emperor in the 1500s as a monument to his beloved wife. It really is an incredible building. Even walking up to it, it didn’t seem quite real. Almost like a postcard.
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| our ridiculous tourist hats |
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| gotta have a pic like this :) |
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| gorgeous Indian kids |
We also went to the Agra Fort, a really incredible building that gave a great view of the Taj Mahal from afar. I like to imagine what those buildings would be like in the times they were built, I’m sure they would have been just breathtaking.
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| The Taj Mahal |
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| girl pic |
After the fort we went to a marble factory where they showed us how they make the marble that was on the Taj Mahal and the Fort. It was interesting but they kept pressuring us to buy something, I’m sorry but I don’t really need a $3000 slab of marble. I think Raj gets a cut or something from our purchases. Pretty sketchy.
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| cool, but dang expensive |
We then went to dinner at Pizza Hut as it was right next to our hotel and we didn’t want to walk very far. Most of the pizzas contained something spicy. I choose the chicken supreme pizza, which was a little spicy but not too bad. We also tried this drink called masala lemonade, which was by far the most disgusting drink I have ever consumed. It was basically a bunch of spices mixed in with lemonade. It tasted like armpit and sewage. I don't know how the natives drink it.
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Tim did not enjoy
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That was about it for Agra! I'm excited to visit Jaipur tomorrow. I'm not sure what to expect.
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