Saturday, January 13, 2018

The Taj Mahal and the Red Fort

Agra is home to the Taj Mahal and Red Fort.  It was a sad love story.  The fifth mogul king worshipped his wife.  She died giving birth to their 14th child.  The mogul freaked out and spent most of the national treasury building the Taj Mahal to honor her and provide a burial site.  It’s all made of white marble and is quite beautiful.  The mogul than wanted to build a similar structure for his burial across the river where he would be able to always to see his wife.  That was too much for the country and somehow one if his sons became mogul #6 and locked his dad in the Red Fort.  It was a kind of house arrest. He had no freedom, but could look out the window and see the Taj Mahal









I haven’t yet figured out how these guys put their pants on in the morning




Maintainance at the Red Fort



The Red Fort is all red sandstone. And it was Hugh.  Well protected too.  First moat crocodiles.  Second moat bengal tigers, third moat hot oil.


This guy was staying in our hotel.  He was part of a flight crew. Today they are flying to Kilimanjaro 


2 comments:

  1. What beauty! We're you able to go inside?

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    1. Yes. We went inside, but couldn’t use cameras inside. They kept you moving

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