Friday, February 19, 2010

Taj Mahal





We spent Valentine's Day on a train to Agra with the three of us, two Israelis and a group of Indians. Very romantic. Right when we got in, we bought train tickets scheduled to leave the following morning. Our intention in Agra was simple, see the Taj Mahal. Before boarding our train, we met a Croatian woman who was traveling by herself so she joined us for our adventures at the Taj. Gabe felt ill and spent the day sleeping. So Jon, Visnja and I went to the temple. We walked through the arched doorways and there it stood. I couldn't even believe it was real until I touched it. Completely ethereal. Especially with the gray, bland backdrop. It was built so that only the sky served as its backdrop. It makes it feel as if it had fallen down from the heavens. Just pure and perfect. We spent around five hours there, awestruck.

At the end of the day, we ate dinner with Visnja and bid her safe journeys. She was returning to Katmandu to finish some work she had been doing and had just come down to India for a short while. We went to bed to prepare for a day of traveling.

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