DAY 7: AGRA Namaste, today we will tell you a little about food. Since we arrived in India have not tasted any meat, here everything is vegetarian and very spicy. Even if you tell them you want it spicy not going to give Igua. Sonia ........... organizes the second conference of lamb gastronomic this time you will be safe competition for first place, so look dates to mid-May would be nice ........ We will alternate between Indian food and rice with vegetables (Chinese food). What I'd give a steak ...........
As odors in India anything out except for specific sites there is no significant aromas.
We already night and today. The train journey passed without incident. We slept little were pretty outstanding as luggage, backpacks while they were tied. Shortly after passing the reviewer asking mounting bills and asked how late the train, we said 7 hours, so we put the clock at 6.30 am. We did some sandwichises loin and sleep or at least try. The train did not come to Agra to 24 km left us in a town called Tudla, which we almost at 9.00 am. Getting off the train a man came towards us and showed us a paper with the name of Jorge, we said we were us. Where we had parked the car dodging the rick saw they offered us. A outside the station there was a Catholic church. We present
our driver called Chaman (if somebody likes you to know who is married with two daughters) and our car is an Ambassador is a vintage car to air conditioned and quite spacious. Top speed 73 km / hour and also uses it as a SUV, is a rod ...............
first thing we say we want to buy water on the site for as long as we Jorge buying up water in front of the car a mother with her teenage daughter. I ask permission to see if we can take the girl Agra have to do a review and tell you later. Without highlighting anything until the only thing that is Agra highway and not much traffic.
At Agra we let the passengers and taught him; masters Shaman guide showing the hotel you wanted to go, but he says he knows of one that is well ......... ..........., started and we say no, that takes us we used to call us. We are the same as above in which he says. We went down, we see the price asked 900 rupees very expensive, so let's go Chaman. Tells us that the hotel we say this in a narrow street and can not get in the car ...... Total makes another stop we asked the guide and Jorge leave behind the things and left them ..... claritas A tries to explain to his brother Jorge, what happens in this hotel has no parking for the car and another that is recommended in the guide, so we go to that is called Safari, but is complete and there we reconmiendan the TOURIST GUEST HOUSE that in the guide put it very well. Call on the phone and talk to them and tell me they have site but do not pay commissions to bring us, I say no problem, so there we go. Upon arrival we have a poster that says that is included in the lonely planet. It's pretty cool with a garden with tables under the shade of many trees. Taught us, an several rooms and we stayed with it costs us 250 rupees with fan and bathroom inside. We stick a shower and breakfast in the garden that this vice, a lemon lassi 20 rupees and 30 rupees vegetable sandwich each. After a relaxing time in the garden we connect to the Internet until we come get Chaman.
When it comes accompanied; ado a friend, go ......... tells us that Friday is closed as the Taj Mahal, so we decided to take us to Red Fort. The friend on the way to go to safe costs 250 rupees each, and if we want to go after the baby taj it costs 200 rupees each on the two inputs can get something cheaper, we say that in principle only the strong. Then begins a Byzantine discussion with the friend about how long we want to be strong ........... again trying to organize, and we preguntadonos to co, or does this here ..... finally the thing just making it clear that we decide weather ..... clear what a shame, if we were much we could not go to your store .......... have a nose, or those above them or do what you want .............. but do not know who have run ............... good is Jorge.
leave us at the entrance of the fort and to get to the door as April 18th is the day of the palaces in India is free entry, ole ......... Rs 500 we save, we must not pay for the camera for the video itself.
past is a nice and quite large since one of the balconies we first see the Taj across the Yamuna river, wow ...............
was built between 1565 and 1573 by Akbar, who made it his citadel was subsequently occupied by his successors, Jahangir and Shah Jahan, who provided personal contributions to the building.
The walls of the citadel of Agra are made of red sandstone and culminating in pointed battlements, are about 20 m high and its total length is 2.5 km.; its east side, along the river is straight, the rest an arc to the west and is protected by a moat. It has two entrances: the "Delhi Gate, on the western side and" Amar Singh Gate, on the south side, which is accessed to visit, not about a single door, then passed successively under the arcs of three sturdy doors, then there is a long ramp lined with straight walls, which leads to the palaces. Its interior, dotted with gardens and patios of fine marble and carved sandstone Mughal style to the more precious, it brought comfort to grieving Shah Jahan. Once the tower where prisoners lived his last years, I could see what the Emperor watched from the balcony: the Taj Mahal. In an opposite wall, a hole, where he asked to be placed a mirror from his deathbed, at age 74, looking at the expiry of his wife's grave.
After 2 hours we went out and Chaman is at the door waiting, come to the car and comes back his friend. We say we want to go see the Itimad-ud-daulah (baby Taj) because we think that the same is also free. The friend says they close at 5 and 5 minutes left, do not we pay attention and ask a shaman to lead us and do well because it is open and it's free ....... saving another 400 rupees. built between 1622 and 1628 on the right bank of the Yamuna , the mausoleum is the transition between early Mughal architecture which used mostly red clay - and in the tomb of Humayun or that of Akbar - and this new period in which the main material becomes white marble and the best example is the Taj Mahal. The mausoleum was built by order of Nur Jahan, Jahangir wife, to bury his father, Mirza Ghiyas Beg, who was granted the title of Itimad-ud-Daula, which means "pillar of the state." Ghita Mirza Beg was also the grandfather of Mumtaz Mahal, wife of Emperor Shah Jahan , both buried in the Taj Mahal. The tomb is located within the gardens crisscrossed by small waterways and diverse ways. The mausoleum was built on a platform of 50 meters wide by 1 meter high. The building itself occupies an area of \u200b\u200b23 m² and is bounded on its sides by four hexagonal towers 13 meters high. We think what they charge for expensive nice but being the Taj Mahal .............. (I know that we have entered for free what other travelers say.) Leaving
we say that Jorge has Chaman would like to take a picture of the Taj at sunset and field puts us at a spot THROUGH hardly even a 4x4 would enter in Spain on the other side of river. It's a shame that the river water does not lead to penalties as the typical picture of the reflection is not possible.
Chaman tell you to take us to the Guest and friend insists we go somewhere else, and as we knew it was because we say no and to his own, yet we go to the Guest. Chaman left with to spend the next day to pick us up at 7.00 am and leaves.
shower, relax in the garden and rice dinner with candles and cheese for 40 rupees each was delicious. Internet busy so we will relax several times the light and two girls leave the room angry internet, we take a computer but internet does not work call a guy in the Guest and says that the server is automatic that can come back in 5 minutes or 2 hours ................... Jorge fingered end router and a little ................ oh work. After a while we say that close the Internet room and asked if there are some other site it is important and does not leave stay a little longer to finish yesterday.
With this and a cake tomorrow. Kisses and hugs
whichever is applicable, sorry no pictures today (we have not makeup) that the computer nooooooooooo we do not have a sad USB port and no other computer in a mile radius, so we hope to put some pictures tomorrow. Hey
continue putting comments and know that we do illusion, but others have unconditional ...................
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