Thursday, July 21, 2011

India Day 3 to 4 - Agra

We set off from Delih to Agra to view our beloved Taj Mahal! wohoooo.... and before we move on.... pump petrol first of course!....


off we goo......
an Indian Mum carrying a baby on the bike.... in India, there is no such luxury item as baby seat.


A motor bike holding three guys hugging each other....hehehehe....
The market place....

The streets (:
Look at the amount of pollution this chimney is causing.... major black fumes!
Their form of singapore "ERP" system... almost like the malaysia ones... but just way cheaper
ooooooohhhhh man with monkeys.... if you snap a picture of them... you got to pay menx.. not funny.... they are very persistent... but i am smart!hahaha I stay behind my baby's shoulder use iphone to snap a pic sneakily! we should not encourage such activities even though they may look very poor... but their thinking is, if i can make money out of this, why study.. then India will never grow....
Looks like Taj.... but noooooo.... its not! hahaha



Whooohoooo we reach the entrance of the hotel! alas...

The Oberoi Amarvilas



My huge arse nostrils hehehehe
Swimming pool ....
US on the second holiday with a little sneak preview of the Taj behind the trees..... see if you can spot it (:
We reached our hotel after a long long ride.... not forgetting a traumatizing one
Agra Fort

Beholds the fortress! Look at this long canal looking thing... this is the first protection layer... filled with man dug river and crocodiles... where behind this ... lies a more ferocious one... land of fierce animals......





Entrance to the Agra fort



Grand hall....
This is an area where the king will meet his diplomats and individual commoner etc who has request or problems seeking king's help.... look at the celling.... it looks almost parallel.... intricately built.....
Behind this gates lies the palace .....

Outside view of the baby factory (where the king and his wife made 17 babies in 18 years of marriage!), with two other rooms on the sides... where the princess lived....

This is a little water feature... in the rooms of one of the princess who stays right beside the baby factory...hahaha ... also used to be filled with perfumed water...
Precious stones engravings.... and look at the flower on the top... a visible sign of theft happening before this place was being protected by the govt
rmb our castles story books, where there are small river surrounding the palace with crocodiles inside? this castle as it tooo .... river with crocs and land with tigers... double layer... each with an entrance that are built as such that one is not visible to the other...
A view of the Taj from the place where the king stays for the rest of his life, and he simply spends it away watching his beloved wife's tomb from afar....

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