One day we went to Agra with our Cousin Brandi and our Grandma. We left at 10 am. It was almost six hours long. When we got there we had to ride to the monument.
Everyone wanted to give us a ride. Drivers with camel carts, horse carts (tonga), and even bicycle rickshaws. We chose the tonga. There was a man standing in front of the horse shouting. The tonga driver almost got in a fist fight with him! We think they were yelling about money.
This was the first time we saw the Taj Mahal. The Taj Mahal is the most famous monument in India.
The Taj was beautiful! It is made of white marble. A king (Maharaja) built it to remember his wife after she died. There was going to be black Taj for the king, but it was never made. The King's son kidnapped him. The son thought his father was spending too much money. We stayed at the Taj for two full, long hours.
Then we went to our hotel to see our room. After we put all of our stuff in our room we went out to a rooftop restaurant to have dinner. (Audrey had a chicken burger). Then we went back to our hotel and went to bed..
The next morning we went back to the same rooftop restaurant for breakfast.
We could see the Taj Mahal again right there in front of us!
On the way home we stopped at a palace called Fatehpur Sikri. It was built by a man named, Akbar over 400 years ago. It is very big and very fancy.
Emporer Akbar even had a giant Parchesi Board! But there was no water at Fatehpur Sikri so he left it after 15 years. Now people call it the "Ghost City." It was almost as beautiful as the Taj.
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This is so cool.
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