Agra, Province of Utter Pradesh
India

...where you will find a very smoggy city...and the choking Taj Mahal

   

Agra, in the state of Utter Pradesh, is the city of the Taj Mahal

The Taj Mahal was built by Shah Jahan in memory of his beautiful wife, Mumtaz Mahal. She died while giving birth to her forteenth child. Shah Jahan was so shocked by her death that his hair turned grey overnight!

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Entrance to the Taj Mahal


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Taj Mahal in later afternoon

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Agra fort

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Agra family taking a bath
in very dirty water

 

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Tah Mahal in late afternoon

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Taj Mahal side view

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Itamad-ud-daulah
tomb. He died in 1622

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Fatihpur Sikri outside Agra.
Built between 1571 and 1585 as the capital of the Mughals, but shortly after completion it became a ghost town as their was no water in the area.

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Taj Mahal side view

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Taj Mahal temple

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Agra cows

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Entrance to Akbar's tomb in Sikander, outside Agra.
Constructed in 1605.

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