just a short train ride from the Indian capital of Delhi lies one of the seven wonders of the world
the Taj Mahal a masterpiece of Mughal architecture and a world-renowned symbol of India's Rich
history in today's video we embark on our own self-led photography tour as we explore this
incredible World Wonder even with a 5am wake up we couldn't help but feel excited to finally be here
guys we can see it right behind that tree over there oh so it is
I hadn't seen it yet wow I can just see the tops of the towers I almost like don't want
to see it all yet I just want to like wait until we get through the gates and eventually
trying to snap a photo but it's too dark holy smokes the sun isn't even
up yet but it's like glowing it's so beautiful
it's just like such a treat to be like some of the first ones here these guys are literally
the first people walking on the path to have the view of the Taj like just to ourselves not just
to ourselves sorry without people in it there's lots of other people here they're just behind us
the place has like an incredible like peacefulness to it early in the morning but it's slightly
interrupted by the fact that there's lots of people trying to like become a guide and try
to help you out but if you remove that of the equation it is spectacular actually no
the whole thing is just spectacular it is just so beautiful to see it in the sunrise lit up
I just can't believe we're here and don't get me wrong there's swarms of people coming in but like
just to remember the Taj like this for 30 seconds with not a lot of folks here it's so beautiful
Huge perk of getting here really is that there just aren't a lot of people here so
we had like a few seconds of peace and we were able to get some photos on that
bench when we first arrived with like basically no one in the background I
think that is a that's like the win of the day it's been a good day already
I think really what pops out is like how white it is it's all made out of marble and
you could really just get a sense of like royalty written all over it just how Grand
this place is is impossible to capture on the camera this is a giant structure it's also like
that morning peaceful like Serenity I think that's really adding to it and then there's
also like birds just kind of flying casually around us and there's monkeys I heard them
squabbling recently yeah but nobody likes the monkeys we are not big fans of monkeys
on
the west side here is actually really really beautiful it's like I think it's actually a
mosque but it has these great archways and because the sun is rising it's coming up
behind the Taj Mahal and like with the Arches it makes for a really cool silhouette shot so
we took some photos of Nicole hopefully they turned out really well but I think this is
actually a really interesting way to see the Taj Mahal as opposed to from the traditional
side which is like on the south face where we were earlier where we started the day [Music]
so when you get to places like this it like it's so exciting and it's so exhilarating that
you just want to like run around take all the photos that you can and just like just
try to capture everything but I think it's also really important to like find a place
to just sit down relax take in the peace and we found that here on the again like
the west side I think it's a mosque uh we're under one of the archways not the main ones
we're not blocking anybody's shots but look at where we are just show them to the side
the view is incredible you know what actually I'm also really enjoying is watching people
take photos because they're it's like people they're so creative and they're so excited
like we are like we are so many people just look so beautiful they've got beautiful
gowns on and yeah beautiful saris on like people just look so stunning
Okay i'm coming look at the sun
I feel like I can take it all in there's like so much to take in like it's just so beautiful
sun is rising and I don't want to miss it I want to take photos because it's so beautiful
I think it's overwhelming when you think you probably only be here like once in your life
and like just really want to do it justice I wish the sun could stay Rising for like
four hours so I didn't feel like rushed to take in the sunrise part of it I don't know
I I've always felt like when I think of India I think of like this like World wonder and we're
finally here also there's like some really cool popping music coming from across the
river and I'm like is there a party at 6 30 in the morning like what is happening the Taj
Mahal welcoming party that's what it sounds like yeah actually and also the Taj Mahal is
right next to a river which just like really sets the scene here because you just have to
slow flowing grayish brown River flowing just like right on one side of the Taj it's stunning
I really feel like this is like a photographer's Paradise here there's so many like cool and
interesting shots that you can take from like so many different angles of the Taj Mahal we've
taken a fair bit of photos now and the sun's come up and it's completely like different
lighting so I kind of feel like we should go back around and take some new photos in the
same spot so I'm not sure if it was obvious earlier but this is the Western like mosque
that's on the west side of the Taj Mahal that we were taking photos in earlier with the nice
archways it's a beautiful building by itself like I think if the Taj Mahal wasn't here
literally eclipsing this building I think you could probably spend a good afternoon
taking photos yeah and just admiring this it does offer great archways for photos so yeah
also we know that the Taj Mahal is actually closed on Fridays because
um uh people come to pray um it is a there is a mosque so Muslims come to pray every Friday and
it's completely closed you can't come visit at all right so a couple fast facts about the task
because we haven't told you anything about it yet it was built by Shah Jahan in the 1600s he was an
emperor and he built it because his favorite wife had so many of them his favorite wife died in
childbirth giving birth to their 14 child together and he just adored her so he wanted to build her a
beautiful Mausoleum so she's buried here and not super long after it was finished being built he
also died I think they died 30 or 35 years apart um so he is also buried in here with her he spent
what would in today's money be like almost a billion dollars building this Mausoleum for
his wife and him so I guess that didn't go over super super well but I mean it's beautiful we're
enjoying it for centuries so that's a perk so guys we've made it over to the other side now the east
side and uh it's the same Taj Mahal but it looks completely different when it's lit up with the sun
yeah it's almost hard to look at because it's like so reflective and bright later on in the
day I think it's gonna be really tough to look at all that white marble also the other side
here has like a similar building to that one we were taking photos of in the archway it's blocked
off so if you want to take photos the west side is where it's at yeah gotta go to the west side
the grounds here are stunning and also it is now 7 15. there are so many people here so although
it was a very early morning it is definitely worth getting here well at like five I guess
we've been here a while so I think one of the funniest things when you're out and about kind
of going sightseeing is when you see people like walking around on a voice call while they're in
like such a magnificent place and I always kind of wondered why and now I get it because Nicole's on
her voice call with her family because she wants to share like the Taj Mahal and how excited she
was and like it totally makes sense I had to share it it's just so cool to be here I always wondered
what compels somebody to do like a voice call in the middle of something so great or a video call
I'm always like why are you on your phone but then we come here and I'm like I gotta call my family
so we're walking around scouting out a washroom we're back through the Garden area we walked in
at the beginning of the day I already have to pee Nicole already has to pee it was hard to
kind of take it all in in the morning because it was still like the sun was still Rising it
was still fairly dark but the grounds here is actually really really gorgeous it's so clean
it's so like well manicured and taken care of it truly feels like a palace like I can't
believe that someone created this concept to lay their loved one to rest like whoa that was
a grand gesture man you can only imagine what the palace would look like right so something
we kept seeing online whenever we looked at the best photos to take here at the Taj Mahal
are a lot of celebrity photos and people trying to recreate those celebrity photos
so Nicole and I are gonna try and recreate some of our favorite celebrity photos and you
guys have to tell us in the comments which one you think is the most accurate [Music]
all right so you can buy extra tickets to get into the mausoleum and like on the platform here
and I mean if we get this close to the Taj we feel like we've got to go up there we like bought our
tickets for the like the whole site um online but we didn't buy tickets for the entrance to
like the mausoleum area so we're gonna do that now hopefully it's just a couple hundred rupees
and then we get to visit this beautiful thing and also while we're thinking about it the tickets to
get in here were 1100 1100 rupees per person not too bad considering that you're gonna see like one
of the big world wonders but yeah you could do it online and then you get like a little ticket with
a QR code you scan the QR code super simple then you go through security they like check everything
um so don't come with anything like bigger than like basically like a camera bag or
really like a purse and you're not allowed to have microphones and stuff so sorry if
the audio in this video isn't as good as normal we had to leave a microphone back in our hotel
like Elf feet
this is incredible like up close and I love how it's like a lot sunnier now because you get a
real sense of like the whiteness of the marble and uh everything seems so like polished I guess
that's why we have all these shoe covers on yeah or we're like polishing it for them as we walk
around who knows I actually really love the design of the Taj Mahal like when you get right up close
to the wall it's a little bit different than the places that we saw in Delhi where like the
faces of The Monuments or structures are just so ornate and detailed there's so much carvings and
whatnot on them here it's just like showing off the beauty of the white marble and very
minimalistic wall faces like even the roof of the little Archway there's like no crazy
statues it's just like it's just showing off like the almost like a cool geometry with the marble
so we've officially circled to the east side of the Taj and uh it is very bright the marble is
like glistening the most reflective thing besides a mirror it kind of reminds me of
being like in the snow because it's so blindingly bright on the ground
so we're heading into the mausoleum I don't think we can film in there
but we'll tell you all about it after we get out
well going through the mausoleum took five minutes at most
maybe three minutes it's it's really just like one room with like the two tombs yeah of the emperor
and his wife what is cool though is like she's in the center it's almost like they placed her there
when they were ready when the tombs were ready and then he died however many years later and so
they put him like adjacent to her next to her but it makes it asymmetrical which is weird because
the whole rest of this entire Place feels so symmetrical I think the extra ticket is definitely
worth it to like at least to come up here yeah the mausoleum is cool but like being up here on like
the whole sort of area of like the main building the main Mausoleum that's what's worth the ticket
well everyone thank you so much for joining us today as we tick an awesome item off of our
bucket list it was an amazing day and if you want to see more Adventures just like this in India
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