Doug and I are taking a week off of work to travel around India. Our first stop, of course, had to be the Taj Mahal in Agra, which we visited yesterday. It is an amazing work of architecture--it is all carved out of white marble, and the parts around the main mausoleum have inlaid stones, as many as sixty-six stones making up a single four-inch flower. We spent less than one day in Agra and then headed to Jaipur, the former capital of the state of Rajasthan. We're nearing the end of our 24 hours here, but we stayed at a beautiful estate house (Samode haveli), which has been converted into a hotel, in the old city. While we were not fighting traffic or trying to confirm our tickets for our next train leg, we enjoyed touring the City Palace and Amber Fort.
More pictures to come...
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