India part Duex - Taj Mahal

Here was our first glimpse of the Taj Mahal. Overall, it was quite amazing.

The grounds were absolutely beautiful, reminds me of how they keep the temple grounds.

Here's a view of one of the gates

All the black scrollwork is inset into the marble. The marble is etched about 3/4ths of an inch, and the black marble carved then inset

They also inset many other semi-precious and precious stones as well.

Here is one of the two Mosques. Everything on the Taj Mahal is symmetric. The king build two Mosques, even though they could only use one since the other one was facing the wrong way. It's called "the guest house" now.

The King wanted to build a Black version of the Taj Mahal for complete symmetry to house his tomb (the original Taj Mahal is for his favorite wife)

This is a random picture of the airport, which is of itself, quite random.

A few of the towers were undergoing some cleaning unfortunately, but it was still quite impressive.

Here we are, as proof that we're all there. You probably can't pick out Suzy from the others since they're all dressed the same. She's the one closest to me.

Another fun group photo!

Grrrr

just wanted some perspective, you can see the tiny ant type people up by the Taj.

There were many opportunities taken to get some pictures with the ladies.

Here was a water buffalo.

Some people got to touch it. When I got close, it got all feisty.

Suzy got all baby hungry. The Lifferths had to pry their baby from her hands multiple times.

We ate on gold plates. Just like a Boss.