Day 7: Taj Mahal

On Saturday we went for a day trip to Agra and the Taj Mahal. 4 hours drive down from Gurgaon and 5 back due to traffic. Sights too see was the tomb/mosque of Sirikandar, the Taj Mahal and the fort of Agra.

At the mosque we were met by a guide who was to take us to all the sights. I don’t know whether that was good or bad, as he offered some insight we might not otherwise have gotten and smoothed the process of getting in out, but on the other hand he set the pace for what we saw and I think we would have liked to see more and spend more time at each site.

First of all. The Taj Mahal is just about as beautiful as it is supposed to be. It is amazing and it almost shine in all its whiteness. I know countless Danes have been here before, but this was one of the “wonders of the world” I had never thought I would see. So I was pretty amazed.

I tiny thing that means a lot to me in terms of how exotic every thing is, is the fact that there were monkeys in Agra. In the abandoned buildings in the city, climbing the walls of the fort and so on. Total Mowgli/Indiana Jones to me.