Saturday, May 14, 2005

he's fiiiiine!!!!!!!!!!!

so tell me quickly what you've been doing? and if you're liking it etc...

well, after leaving Varannsi we went to Agra. home of the Taj mahal. the taj was increadible . its is so beautiful (not as beautiful as you though) but it is absolutly wonderful.
we spent two days in Agra, the place its self isn't ver nice. the fist day after getting off the train at 7am we got a driver to take us around to the main sites of agra.

we first went to the Agra fort. this was amazing cause its a huge fort with massive walls running around the outside made from red sand stone. inside there are increadible spaces that open up from small dingy tunnels that appear from small holes in the walls. some of the rooms were just increadible. all white marble with intricatly calved arches and columns inlaid with colourful stones. after this we then went to the place know as the baby Taj which is a tomb for of one of the previous rulers. it was also increadible because of how, again, all the surfaces were inlaid with geometrical designs and also floral designs. also, most of the rooms were screened by screens calved entirely from marble in geometric designs. it sat on a red sand stone base and contrasted so well with the marble. also there were four big red sandstone domes on each of the corners of the wall that ran around the outside. the taj was built for love, it was a monument for one of the wifes of one of the mughal rulers built around 1500

lucky woman, will you build me a taj laurahal one day?

she died giving birth to her 14th child. i think she deserved it
then, after visiting the baby taj we went to the back side of the Taj Mahal and watched it during sunset. the next morning we got up early and went to the taj mahal. it truley is wonderful. so intricate and symetrical, everythiing is in perfect symetry. unfortunately the museum they have there was closed at that time. the are suppose to have some of the original architectural drawing there that i would have love to have seen. after that we caught a train and a bus to a place called Orchhra. actually, very hot. I think every day since leaving Nepal it has been 40C +. Orchhra is just a little place which was nice and surrounding it are the ruins of three old palaces and quite a number of temples. we arrived in the afternoon and went and had a look aournd the first palace complex. we couldn't go inside the palaces because they were closed for the night but we walked around inside the walls of the kingdom. it was great because at the moment there are no tourists so we had the entire place to oursleves. as we walkes around we would come across ruins of the old mansions and other houses. took lots of photos. the next day we then went into the palaces. this was the best fun because we could pretty much go any where inside the palaces and there were so many tunnels and rooms to explore. we went into the kings room in one of the palaces and the paintings were still mostly intact on the roof, the architecture is so good. everything is so ornamental, everythins is carved, after the palaces we then checked out a few temples but it was so hot by then and the temples are not as good as the palaces so it wasn't as exciting, the next morning after a bad sleep, hot and headache, i felt awful. We were going to leave that morning so Jacinta got a doctor to check me out, apparently it is a fever associated with the changing of the seasons. the examination was pretty funny, very brief but he assured me i would be ok. " i am doctor, you be ok sir". he gave me some tablets and told me to eat biscuits and tea. we then travled to where we are now, K............, not sure of the spelling but its home of the erotic temples. they look increadible but will wait till tomorrow to check them out. Jacinta has come down with food poising again and i still don't feel 100%

Well, he sounded great and it was absolutely great speaking to him since I had reached the limit after which I was about to start worrying again.... I just hope they both get better soon and they keep visiting places just as amazing. I'm starting to feel a bit jealous, but I like his detailed explanations and can't wait to see his photos. That's as close as I will get to it for now, but it will be much better than nothing. Hope everyone enjoyed this little account, I think it sounds like they're having a pretty awesome time....

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