Agra Fort The Agra Fort was begun by Emperor Akbar in 1565 and grew with each successive leader. Shah Jahan (of Taj Mahal) fame included a large amount of construction in marble. Used originally as a military building, the fort has seen a transformation into a palace and then a prison. Aurangzeb (Shah Jahan’s son)ContinueContinue reading “India: The rest of Agra”
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India: Taj Mahal
Happy Diwali before I begin. Today I have been awake since 3am and saw Diwali in at the train station where I saw loads of Indian couples who was clearly going to family for Diwali…they arrived in their western style clothes and then there was a huge rabble of them in the Womens loo…as they came out I realized that they was all going in to put on their Saris!ContinueContinue reading “India: Taj Mahal”
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