there it is
we're on a little road trip in India my first road trip this is Bhavya...Hey!
and so I made a local friend and I told her I really wanted to go to the Taj
Mahal which is something that you have to do when you come to India and I was
so we're taking a little road trip today and we are on our way to Agra India
so now we just arrived in Agra which is the city where the Taj Mahal is I have
heard a lot about Agra and I've heard that it's a not the best place to spend
your time so most tourists they come here just to see Taj Mahal and not
really to see the city around it but I want to show you a little bit of it as
we drive
yeah
so do you know how long this takes to get up to the front I think it's a
kilometer so I can see the Taj Mahal from here it's about one kilometer away
and you have to take a rickshaw either a bicycle like this it's a rickshaw or an
auto rickshaw or bus or a bus or a taxi but it looks like it's gonna be quick
pretty quick right maybe 10 minutes or so we guessing look you can barely see
so we finally made it in finally at the Taj Mahal
within this rapidly what is this the front gate so weird to finally be here
one of the most recognizable places in the whole world and then we standing
right in front of it
alright so he just entered the main gate the first gate on the way in
looks like there are fats there are bets appear in pigeons
and then the first amazing view of taj mahal look at this
the way that it's perfectly framed
okay here we are this is the quintessential picture of the Taj Mahal
look we're here in the middle of the day look how many people you have to get
through to get that all right so the Taj Mahal is made almost completely out of
marble and over time it's kind of become a little yellowed because of pollution
in the air and everything and so now if you're coming in 2019 I believe maybe
even next year there might be a little bit of scaffolding on there because
they're actually cleaning it up and restoring it to the brilliant white that
it once was so it might ruin your selfies
so you get a free pair of shoes with your ticket so you have to wear these
sexy shoes when you go in to the top are you ready so Taj Mahal was built by Shah
Jahan in 1630 or it started in 1631 it took around 20 years to build and he
built it for his wife or at least his lover
and and then he killed every arms built this which was about supposedly about
20,000 people people got their hands or arms whatever so that they could not
build this masterpiece again that was myth I don't know
all right so now we're actually gonna go into the Taj Mahal and with 2ms of his
wife or lover and I've actually never seen photos or anything from inside Taj
Mahal so I'm guessing that I'm not gonna be able to take any photos or any video
so now we're behind the Taj Mahal and there's this river here I think she said
it's the Yamuna and probably have that wrong but we just came out of the Taj
Mahal here and it really took about five minutes
we all knew in there for five minutes and they kind of Corral you they make
you go through it really quickly and all it is is a small room with their two
tombs it's all made out of marble really intricate designs so it's very cool to
see
so you'll always hear that people come to the Taj Mahal very early in the
morning but if you're coming from Delhi you're going to have to leave that like
two three in the morning to get here if you want to beat the crowds at like five
or six in the morning the other the other reason that people come very early
is because it's usually very very hot especially with the white marble
building and when you're around the main part of the Taj it is so hot because the
Sun is just bouncing off the walls we didn't want to get up that early though
so we're here in the middle of the day we have the biggest crowd it's very hot
and that's just something you have to deal with but it's still worth it at
this time so come whenever you want not during summer time true okay so for
foreign visitors it costs currently it costs twelve hundred and fifty rupees
about 1516 dollars for us to get in here and you get a map you get these
removable shoes so you can go inside potage and you get a bottle of water for
that so it's not that bad and this is it
so now we're gonna get back on the road and hopefully get a different view a
different perspective of taj mahal because you can actually go all over
agra and get different views with less crowds we're going this way
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