"If you haven't seen it, you haven't seen India."
"The golden Temple in Amritsar is way better. Don't go to the Taj Mahal."
"I thought the Taj is just another nice temple, but when I saw it in real life, it was breathtaking."
When I thought about, what I want to see in India, I was considering to skip the Taj Mahal. Even after all these comments above from other travellers. The golden temple as well, because it's way too far north. But in the end I passed by the Taj Mahal, which means I came to Agra (that's the City the Taj Mahal is at), because it was on my way anyway. It fit into my route.
8th of february 6am. I am sitting in front of my hostel to wait for Giani.
This early because the Taj Mahal has two special rules. No, not the Taj Mahal.. Travellers have two special tips, which seem to you like rules:
1.: You have to come at sunrise, because then it's supposed to be more beautiful.
And 2.: You have to be the first in line to get a picture of the Taj without any tourists on it.
And the two rules of the Taj Mahal are:
It opens at 7:15 (depending on when the sunrise is) and it costs 750 Rupees (ca. 10,50€), which is really a lot in India. (Indians pay 20 Rupees..... (ca.30 cent))
Giani shows up at 6:30am blaming his rickshaw driver. Giani is also half Italian - I don't think it was just the rickshaw driver that was delayed. :-P
Anyway we arrive way too late, when the queue was already huge. Still we got some nice pictures:
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| From another side (it looks identical from all sides) |
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| Standing with the Taj in the back, looking towards the entry of the whole Taj area. |
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| Behind the Taj |
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| Typical tourist pic no.1 |
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| Typical tourist pic no.1 - fail |
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| Typical tourist pic no.2 |
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| From far away |
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