DAY 1
It started off innocently enough with a small protest within college. It ended up in a 3-week long, well-publicized shutdown for no valid reason.
It started off innocently enough with a small protest within college. It ended up in a 3-week long, well-publicized shutdown for no valid reason.
What i got out of all this was a well deserved holiday to JAIPUR.
The plan was initially only Jaipur and Ajmer. Once we landed there, our aWesome driver told us that 2 days for Jaipur alone would be a waste. So within that 20-minute drive from the Airport to the Hotel we decided on going to Agra ( jlt)
Next day morning we set off on a 232 km drive and i did what i am best at, #Sleep. Yes, spectacular buffet breakfast+ the most comfortable Innova car + a non-bumpy drive is equivalent to the most boring lecture in my history of dumb subjects studied.
My first time seeing this masterpiece and it came as a complete surprise. Seemed more like some giant had just placed his beautiful little toy on Earth . I still can't believe that we( as in our species) actually built it. Pinch me.
We caught hold of some photographer who made us pose in THE most atrocious poses ever . Forget holding the top needle of Taj, that's olden style. Latest styles include the romantic gazes, the high jumps, the shy-bride look, the easy-chair look, the-i-am-thinking look and the-oh-wow look.Its difficult to give that intense look or even look your normal self when they ask you to look a certain way, so i ended up trying not to show all my remaining 28 teeth and looking quite the looker:p Sparing you the agony and not putting them up.
From here we rushed to Fatehpur Sikri. Without a guide ,going there is basically useless because everything looks the same at first sight. My dad told the poor guide that i didnt know Hindi ,so the poor thing had to make do with his rehearsed English speech about Akbar and his wives .I have to commend on these peoples English speaking skills, for their livelihood they actually learn an entire new language.
Akbar's Diwan -i- Khas where Akbar would sit in the middle and his ministers from various religions would sit in the four corners
Akbar seems to have been this real cool guy. He had many wives. But then the wives were of different religions Hinduism, Christianity and Islam etc. He provived different palaces for each of them and the architecture that he built was a mixture of each culture . The result was something brilliant. There was a palace which had been painted in blue and the paint was still intact despite hundreds of years of wear and tear
The Panch Mahal with gradually diminishing height of each of the 5 tiers
The Buland Darwaza which is one of the largest gateways in the world which is 54 mts high
The tomb of Salim Chishti
Wonder of the world and also on the UNESCO World Heritage List #bEautiful Agra
