You went to see taj mahal in Agra on a trip organised by your school. Write a diary entry on it.
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vist to the Taj Mahal. Our tour guide for the day was a " Michael Jackson" look a lke who talked a lot! The "Taj is truely amazing, a beautiful symmetrical architectural feat with intricate detail throughout. the Taj was built buy the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan as a memorial for his 3rd wife Mumtaz Mahal who died giving birth to their 14th child. The building was started in 1631 and said to be conpleted over 8 years and all built by hand. Diary Entry;"It is a truely amazing building and I wish we had more time to just sit and absorb the beauty and observe the changing colours - " A teardrop on the cheek of eternity"( Rabindranath Tagore). Even after an early start the weather was extremely hot so we decided to continue on our tour of Agra visiting the Agra fort, another massive structure. This fort was where Shah Jahan was imprisoned by his son for the last years of his life. Here he could gaze across to the Taj Mahal to the burial palce of his wife. So romantic! We went back to the motivation
for breakfast and did a little more touring of forts and Temples in Agra before we continued our journey onto Jaipur. Our driver for the Golden Triangle tour was a beautiful Hindu man named Sanjeev. He was quietly spoken but looked after us very well, making sure all our stops had Western toilets and reasonable food. The road houses on our travels always served curries, which Marco saddled up to every lunch stop. Marco certainly earns the "Iron guts" award for the trip although one stop he ventured to the toilet , returning to the table stated " Straight in Straight out"! The kids travelled well given the hot conditions, the ordinary roads and the long distances that we travelled. Nikki took advantage of the back seat of the bus which we had to tour in all by ourselves, and couldn't help but stretch out. I was a bit nervous with this as the Hindi people believe that the feet are "dirty" , the children are never allowed to sit on the floor in schools. So I thought this Nikki's lounging on the back seat may be frowned upon by Sanjeev. He never commented , and in fact at one
stop he bought a cushion for Nikki especially so that "she could sleep"! While touring fron Agra to Jaipur we travelled through farming areas and lots of towns seeing cows, pigs, camels, dogs, over loaded vechiles, street stalls etc.etc. On one rare occasion we were travelling on a two lane highway , finally getting up a little speed when out of nowhere appeared a cow that somehow Sanjeev miraculously avoided to hit. We all were jolted and frightened, Sanjeev blessed himself and said a little prayer! We finally arrived at Jaipur, "The Pink city", and stayed in a great motel once again with a pool ( No bats or monkeys!)
for breakfast and did a little more touring of forts and Temples in Agra before we continued our journey onto Jaipur. Our driver for the Golden Triangle tour was a beautiful Hindu man named Sanjeev. He was quietly spoken but looked after us very well, making sure all our stops had Western toilets and reasonable food. The road houses on our travels always served curries, which Marco saddled up to every lunch stop. Marco certainly earns the "Iron guts" award for the trip although one stop he ventured to the toilet , returning to the table stated " Straight in Straight out"! The kids travelled well given the hot conditions, the ordinary roads and the long distances that we travelled. Nikki took advantage of the back seat of the bus which we had to tour in all by ourselves, and couldn't help but stretch out. I was a bit nervous with this as the Hindi people believe that the feet are "dirty" , the children are never allowed to sit on the floor in schools. So I thought this Nikki's lounging on the back seat may be frowned upon by Sanjeev. He never commented , and in fact at one
stop he bought a cushion for Nikki especially so that "she could sleep"! While touring fron Agra to Jaipur we travelled through farming areas and lots of towns seeing cows, pigs, camels, dogs, over loaded vechiles, street stalls etc.etc. On one rare occasion we were travelling on a two lane highway , finally getting up a little speed when out of nowhere appeared a cow that somehow Sanjeev miraculously avoided to hit. We all were jolted and frightened, Sanjeev blessed himself and said a little prayer! We finally arrived at Jaipur, "The Pink city", and stayed in a great motel once again with a pool ( No bats or monkeys!)
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