Good afternoon from Delhi,
where I'm dripping ice cream down myself
and I'm also at another...
The bloody bottom fell off it as well.
I'm at another historic site.
This one, it's the Humayun's Tomb.
A tomb for the man Humayun,
who was the second Mughal emperor back in the day.
I think he died in 1556.
And the story is, that his wife,
well his first wife, because he's Islamic,
so, they had multiple wives, didn't they?
His first wife was so distraught, so devastated
by the death of Humayun
that she dedicated the rest of his life to building a memorial.
The most beautiful, the biggest in the whole of
Delhi?
Well, the whole of whatever Delhi was called back then.
The whole of the empire, in fact.
Aye, she wanted him to have the biggest, mausoleum.
That's it.
So, that's what I've come to visit,
Humayun's Tomb.
I've been trying to find out what this thing is.
This building here.
I think I've walked the whole radius of it
and haven't found any information at all.
There's an entrance somewhere about there.
Aye, there's it.
Look at this, all dripping down myself.
Like Delhi isn't the place...
What, you getting the...? / You may not enter.
What's that?
Yes, open, open.
It's open?
He says it's open. / No you cannot. You cannot go in.
Oh, you're the security guard?
I was wondering what's going on here.
There's a bunch of different graves in here
but that won't be the main guy.
That'll be maybe,
maybe his six wives?
Would they have had six wives back in the days?
Aye.
I dunno. But there's no information at all.
And these security guards, here.
I've been to places...
Oh ruined more photos.
Just everywhere you're going, you're just stepping into someone's photos but
never mind, they're going to take 10 anyway.
This is, this is...
Delhi's too hot for ice cream mate.
It's all melted and stuff.
I've forgot what I was gonna say, so
I dunno,
I dunno what I was gonna say, so
we'll go onto the next part.
We could go up the wall.
Get a better view of the thing.
Oh yeah.
There's some power lines.
Are we supposed to come up here?
Yeah.
There was nothing blocking us.
Jesus.
Feel like I'm falling backwards.
Okay.
Well there you have it,
the mausoleum for Humayun's wives.
I dunno if that really is the tomb for the wives
but like I said,
if they don't give me all the information, I just need to
fill in the blanks myself,
put the bits and pieces together
and make a wee story.
Right, I reckon the main tomb,
the main man's tomb is somewhere around that way.
Ah, now I remember
what I wanted to talk about.
I wanted to talk about that security guard coming in.
Broke Forever, he's saying they're trying to stop you if you have a tripod or something.
Yeah, that's true. You're not allowed tripod's here.
But the main reason, I'll tell you guys,
the main reason those guys come up to you,
is that they try and provide like an unofficial guide service.
That's what they do.
The guys who are security guards here,
they earn almost nothing,
so they see a foreigner,
it's a good opportunity for them to just...
They come up, they give you some information,
they'll show you some good places to take some photos
and then they'll ask for money.
You'll give them 100, they'll ask for 200.
You'll give them 200, they'll ask for 400.
You get the idea, so
that's what that guy was up to when he seen us.
Well, I guess he thought we were both foreign.
My friend's a local.
Yeah, so that's what he was up to,
back there.
I'm 100% sure of it.
Well actually, I've just seen, there is information
on what that tomb was about.
So you can ignore what I told you
about it being the tomb for Humayun's wives.
It is actually for Isa Khan,
who was someone who died, I guess 2 decades before Humayun.
And there's no information on who that is,
Isa Kahn.
I dunno.
Again we just have to fill in the blanks.
Maybe it's some
ancestor for Chaka Khan.
Let's say that, shall we?
Oh, in fact, wait.
That's some more information.
Isa Khan tomb enclosure,
Was a noble in the court of Sher Shah Shur.
Okay so it was a noble woman.
Well it sounds like a woman, Isa.
I guess it's probably a guy, isn't it?
Women wouldn't probably have...
Probably women don't get tombs like that.
They'd just be like buried in the grass, back then.
Back in those days.
Now that I'm thinking about it.
Okay, come with me guys
as we piece the little bits together
and make up the story.
Find out the history of this place.
We'll get it eventually.
Well we're walking to the main tomb now.
The main man's tomb - Humayun.
And look at it. It's surrounded by a fort.
Some beautiful gardens in there that I can see.
So aye, I think this is gonna be quite impressive.
This is good. It looks like everybody's on their way out,
rather than on their way in.
That's what you like to see, innit?
And we're here at... What time must it be?
About 5 pm or something.
We assumed this place would close at like 5:30 or 6 pm,
like most places do.
There's actual, on the sign it says 9 pm this place closes, so
I guess they must light this place up.
I don't see any lights or anything.
I assume this is pitch dark at night
but maybe they light up the main tomb area and stuff, so
aye, that'd be something pretty special to see but
I'm not gonna stick around a few hours, I don't think.
What time does it get dark?
Like 6...? / I think like 6:40
Ah yeah, so
we'll be gone by then.
Sorry guys.
GoPro's crap in low light anyway, so...
Yeah, you don't wanna see that.
And here we are.
That is it.
Humayun's Tomb. Look at the bloody size of it.
It is absolutely massive.
Wow.
And like I said...
Hello, how are you?
High five!
Yeah, five.
Yes, good lad.
Yeah.
So that is it, right ahead of us.
Humayun's Tomb.
Bloody huge.
It's almost the size of the Taj Mahal, right?
Incredible, isn't it?
I think it's a similar story to the Taj Mahal.
Isn't that the Taj Mahal...
Was that built by somebody who was... A commemoration to their husband or something like that as well?
For his wife.
Yeah.
Oh, it's for his wife so it's the opposite way around.
This one, the man died
and she built the tomb
and the other one was, the wife died,
and he built the tomb.
So there you go.
Okay,
Some big steps
but
yer men right here
have some big legs so we'll take two at a time, won't we?
No problem for your men.
Aye.
Just ruin more people's photos while I do it
but aye,
look at this.
Ohhh.
And far less people than the Taj Mahal.
Far less people around.
This is nice.
Right, let's find the entrance.
And that is it I guess, right in the center.
The one grave
for the one man.
This whole thing built just for him.
Looks like those guys getting a,
an unofficial tour from that security guard.
Like I told you, that is the reason.
Do you think that guy's just doing that out the goodness of his heart?
Nah.
He's waiting around.
He wants 200 rupees minimum,
for that.
Better get your hand in your pocket mate.
Oh look, there are other graves.
That's for her side lovers.
No, I reckon that's for all the wives,
then.
So I thought that...
I thought the guy had this tomb all to himself
but there are a few wee graves here, so...
I reckon it has to be for the wives, isn't it?
Or maybe the sons.
I dunno, they would have been important in their own right,
so I dunno.
They don't put any names or anything.
Yeah, exactly. It's kinda weird.
Okay, well,
they have these similar types of windows,
like you seen in Agra Fort.
It blocks out the light but it lets the air
come through, so
that was the reason
for that design.
I didn't actually read that anywhere.
That's just common sense thinking
that tells you that.
Anyway, is there anything else to explore in here?
Another three.
So there you go.
That is the six wives.
There's something written on there in Arabic,
so maybe somebody who speaks Arabic could actually tell me
what that says.
It's a wonder they don't translate whatever it says into English and put wee signs up
but
oh, they haven't.
So,
oh aye.
More to explore, more to explore.
There are other wee
corridors and stuff.
Aye, it just looks like through here,
another two graves.
So that's eight in total.
Well eight that I've counted, so
that's probably too many
for wives.
I know that the Islamics, they
they had multiple wives but probably didn't have eight.
Although, he was the emperor, so maybe
he was important enough to have eight.
I think it depends on how much money you've got.
The more money you've got, the more wives you can have,
in that religion. I think that's how it works.
As long as you're able to support them financially and everything
and with your own attention,
you're allowed to have them, so
I dunno, could be eight wives.
No information for me to tell you.
Let's say it's,
it's three wives and
five sons or something.
Let's just make that up.
Anyway.
Let's just make that the story guys,
since they don't give us the information.
Maybe they don't know the information.
I think in situations like that, where they don't have any signs,
usually it's just, people don't know.
You know, the history's unclear.
Maybe like scholars,
historians argue about
what the real history was.
Things like that. So, they don't put up any signs.
So, better just listen to me instead.
Look at this.
Amazing.
You just get in idea from here...
Oh ya...!
Ohhh.
Okay, vlogging fail.
We just get an idea,
from here,
how big these grounds are.
Aye.
And apparently it was
the first wife.
She spent her own money
on this
and she like overseen it, as the manager.
She spent 1.5 million rupees,
at the time.
I dunno what that is in today's money but it would have been an absolute fortune.
Aye.
Incredible.
Absolutely incredible.
And more graves right here.
I'm gonna have to make up more stories,
to make up who these people were.
I dunno, let's just say
that each one of these was a relative of Humayun.
Aye.
Probably each time somebody died,
depending on how important they were,
they got a grave. The got one like that
or they got a big one like that.
Aye, let's just say that.
And I dunno if there's too much more
else to explore around here but
I'll have a look.
Well I just noticed, there seems to be an upstairs part.
I don't remember being upstairs in this thing.
I don't remember even seeing any stairs.
Is there anybody up there?
I wonder how to get up to one of these ledges.
I'm gonna go find out.
Hey, was there a way upstairs?
There's like another floor.
Look at this.
Did you see a way up?
Yeah, I don't see anybody up
but surely if it exists...
They might have blocked it off.
Maybe it's only foreigners who pay the big price who are allowed up.
Do you think I could use my white privilege?
Paying the white man price.
Do you think that would work? / Do you see anyone up there?
No, I don't see anybody up there.
It could be that door right there.
You wanna try it?
Ah well,
I reckon it's probably these doors here.
That's probably what it is.
The ones that are padlocked.
That would make sense, that the stairs would be right there,
near the entrance.
And aye,
because I've been all the way around here
and it just takes you round in a circle.
So,
aye, that's unfortunate.
I dunno if there's anything up there or anything but
aye,
doesn't look like you can get up there, so
that's unfortunate.
Looks like there's a couple of doors
and they're locked.
They're padlocked shut, so
yeah.
The other doors were locked too, pretty tight, so...
Ah, alright.
You only pay for the ground floor.
Yeah.
What's going on?
Just hear people shouting.
Don't understand what they're saying.
What is the problem?
I dunno.
The kid's trying to run away on its own?
He's scared of the ghosts.
You scared of the ghosts wee man?
Okay.
So there's another tomb
over there.
Or maybe that's the mosque.
They're kinda build the same shape, aren't they?
With the dome shape.
So I dunno what's a mosque and what's a tomb but
I'll go over there anyway.
Ah, well this one, at least,
it looks like, has a sign.
In English? Yes.
Barber's Tomb.
So that's the guy that cut Humayun's hair.
The guy who cut his hair got his own tomb,
in the late 16th century.
Aye.
Refers to it as 'Barber's Tomb'.
The red sandstone facade,
tiled canopies,
minarets and sandstone screens give the tomb its striking character.
Well, there you go.
The biggest tomb ever devoted
to a barber.
Well there's the barber right there.
In fact, there's two graves.
So...
In fact, that one's bigger than that one.
So, I reckon,
maybe that's the barber
and that's his assistant or something like that?
The trainee?
The wee laddie or wee lassie who does the shampoo for the barber?
Shall we say that?
Shall we say that is the story guys?
I think we will.
Well just as we're about to exit,
we found this other wee tomb right here.
But it's empty. There's nothing inside.
There's no information, so,
I dunno.
Looks like they're renovating it.
Maybe they'll stick a grave in there and make up a story,
for the tourists.
Just like I've been making up stories for you guys.
So from me,
and this tomb
and Humayun and his wives
and his extended family
and his barber and his barber's assistant,
and whatever that's gonna end up being,
See you on the next adventure guys. See you.