Sunday, May 4, 2008

Shake Rattle and Roll!!! To the Taj Mahal...






These are the lights jumping up and down (a long exposure of the car lights)
that Zach took from the bus window. He is keeping the camera still but the bus is making it jump!

We took a tour bus to the Taj from our hotel. The benefit of this was that being in an organized tour, we were a "little" better able to fend off the hawkers, vendors, and beggars that greet you on your way inside the Taj since we were in a large group with a tour leader. However, the bus ride I can only describe by showing you this picture Zach took on the bus on the ride back home. There were no shocks and we rode 4 hours there and 4 hours back bouncing up and down like slabs of meat! Zach was not moving the camera, the bus was!!! We called it the Shake, Rattle and Roll express :)

The Taj itself is impressive and filled with beautiful marble mosaics. The story behind the Taj is just as beautiful and tragic as the building itself.

Click here to read the story:
http://www.tajmahal.org.uk/story.html

Zach took some fabulous pictures and it would have been nice to stay a little longer and soak up the sight but we had to move along with the tour and were glad we also got to see Agra Fort and the factory where the original family(their descendants obviously) still makes the tiles that were used in the Taj. We bought a set of coasters with the beautiful inlay work that will be our souvenir of the trip!

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