Trip to Taj Mahal

During the weekend we made a trip to the famous Thj Mahal which is 200KM away from
New Delhi. Our ride took around 4-5 hours for one direction. There was a lot of traffic and
no ending bumps on the "new highway". Traffic is unbelievable busy in India. For me it seems that there are no rules at all so it is not a big surprise that it took us so long

The Thaj was bulid around 1631 built by Mugul Emperor Shan Jahan in memory of his favorite wife which had born him 14 children and than died. Further info at wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal)

I have never seen so much scrap on the streets. This seems to be normal in India.

People standing with their trained monkeys at the road waiting for visitiors and their money

That there are a lot of cows on the street is not a lie

You can find so many differen types of cow!!

After arriving to the Oberoi hotel Agra, we stayed at the Oberoi in New Delhi,
we used teh free shuttle to get to Taj

Entrance hall to the Taj

Perfect frame for the Taj

Bad luck with the weather. It was raining all day. This humidity was killing me.

Taj in the fog

Kike and the Taj

Kike and his colleague in front of the Taj

The Taj and its garden

The Taj from the side

The high polluted Yamuna river passing the Taj

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Kids searching for trash which they are going to sell afterwards

Proud Thaj

Fishing for trash. I have never seen two extrems so near by.

Thaj´s garden

Booth on teh street to New Delhi

Where ever you look: You see WASTE!!

People sitting in the rain.

All in all it was a very nice trip but this seeing on one side the Taj and on the other side the kids
fishing for waste in the river just showed the real world.