It's the equivalent of scrapping the original plan for a full day trip to Agra during the day today. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Abominable Indian Trains. After getting off the train, Xueluo and Liu Jingshu 100 took a tuk tuk to the inn area near the south gate of the Taj Mahal to find a place to stay, a distance of 6 kilometers. Because I knew that there were many inns in Agra, in order to choose a good location and facilitate on-site price comparison, I did not book online.

The tuk-tuk driver put Xueluo and Liu Jingshu in a small street very close to the south gate, and Xueluo and Liu Jingshu went to find a place to stay by themselves, asked a few places, and finally chose this Agra Kamal Hotel, which felt more cost-effective. It is called a hotel, but it is actually inn-level. Agra Kamal Hotel Address: Agra India 2 star small hotel.

Ordinary standard room 900 about 90 RMB. Located about 170 meters near the south gate of the Taj Mahal, health OK, good hot water, good overall cost performance. The rooftop breakfast platform overlooks the Taj Mahal, and the location is an advantage. Agra is a hot tourist destination, and it feels like food, accommodation and transportation are more convenient and affordable than New Delhi and Amritsar.

After checking into the hotel in Agra, it was already completely dark. This is a restaurant on the roof terrace of the hotel that you can see opposite. At this time, although the Taj Mahal is close at hand, it is already submerged in the night. Agra hurriedly packed up his things and washed his face, and everyone went downstairs to find something to eat. On the train, there are no meals for one day and one night, so bring some snacks for the day.

The hotel is full of small shops to buy tourist goods, as well as small shops to book tourist routes and buy air tickets, and they close late. There are all such small streets and alleys near the south gate, and walking around it makes you feel like you have returned to the small county town or small township of twenty or thirty years ago, and the simple small streets and alleys are full of low and old small houses.

The small shops sell very simple and ordinary quality primary goods, and there are no modern commercial or catering facilities in sight, and there is no feeling of "bright lights", which really does not seem to be one of the top tourist hotspots in a country. In a word: the gap between tourism facilities and international trends is very large.

Agra is relatively clean compared to Delhi and Amritsar, which we have walked through, and there are not many people, except for the area around the mosque and railway station, and most importantly, there are many scammers and thieves in Agra, except that Xueluo and Liu Jingshu did not encounter fakes in small shops.

Agra said above that he didn't meet any scammers in Agra, but I don't know if the experience here counts. Xueluo and Liu Jingshu walked into a small tourist store on the side of the street, and the various stones placed in the counter attracted the attention of Xueluo and Liu Jingshu. The companions are somewhat interested in turquoise, and Xueluo looks beautiful because he bought it.

The fakes that faded when they were wiped back were actually sold in grams, so I didn't dare to buy them. The shopkeeper said that the golden thing in the picture on the top right was a topaz, and he said with a serious face that it was definitely a "nacheri" thing, which meant natural. In addition to this yellow one, there are also blue, purple, and white ones, and they are very expensive.

6000 capsules are about 600 RMB. The strange thing is, if you want to say it's fake, Xueluo tried it, and the counteroffer was less than 4000, and the shopkeeper ignored you, and he wouldn't call you back if you walked out of the store. It's a bit like selling fakes. Diagonally opposite the Agra Hotel, there is a small restaurant with two floors, and there are many diners' message stickers pasted on the walls of the store.

English, Japanese, Korean, including Chinese, some say "this steak rice is cheap and good", "spicy noodles, tomato scrambled eggs are good", some say "average", Xue Luo and Liu Jingshu tried fried rice, fried noodles and vegetable platter, okay. 6~1126 Agra day trip.

Staying in Agra today is the sixth day of the trip to India, a day trip to Agra during the day, I originally planned to stay in Agra for two days, because the train was delayed for a day, I will go to Jaipur tomorrow, only one day today, so I hurried up and went to the Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, Jama Mosque, Little Taj Mahal, and Moonlight Garden.

Overnight at Agra Kamal Hotel. Located on the banks of the Yamuna River on the east side of the city of Agra. It was built in 1631 and took 22 years to complete in 1653. It is a mausoleum built by Shah Jahan, the fifth Mughal emperor, in memory of his late Persian queen Mumtaz Mahal.

With its incomparable and unique architecture, the Taj Mahal has become India's most well-known cultural monument and tourist attraction, a world cultural heritage, one of the seven wonders of the world, and has the reputation of "the pearl of India". Rabindranath Tagore, an Indian poet and Nobel laureate in literature, described the Taj Mahal as "a tear on the cheek of eternity."

The Taj Mahal has become a symbolic calling card of India. Entrance fee: INR 750 for foreign tourists, including a 500ml bottle of purified water, shoe covers, and a practical folding mini-map for Agra tourism. You can buy tickets one day in advance, so you can go directly to the east gate the next day and queue up to get in early.

The Taj Mahal ticket includes taxes on five attractions in Agra: Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, Fatehpur Sikri, Akbar the Great, and Little Taj Mahal.

At the age of 19, he married the third prince of King Jahangir, Prince Gulam, and was named a noble of the court, giving him the title of "Mumtaz Mahal". In 1628, Gulam inherited the throne after a bloody battle, naming himself Shah Jahan, meaning King of the World, and became the fifth Mughal emperor after ascending the throne.

Mumtaz Mahal was not only beautiful but also versatile, serving as the Lord of the Seals of Shah Jahan, with whom he was inseparable and affectionate, and gave birth to more than ten children for him. In 1631, Taj was pregnant with Rokka, still accompanying the emperor on his expedition, but died at the age of 39 due to childbirth during the birth of his 14th child.

Shah Jahan was so sad that he said he had gray hair overnight and wore mourning clothes for two years. On her deathbed, one of Mumtaz Mahal's last wishes to King Shah Jahan was to build a mausoleum for her. In the same year, the construction of the mausoleum began, and the grief-stricken emperor personally supervised the work, inviting the most famous architect of the time to use Humayun's tomb as a copy.

Blending Persian, Muslim and Indian styles, tens of thousands of workers, costing more than 40 million rupees, and taking 22 years to build this unique mausoleum in the world. Legend has it that Shah Jahan wanted to build a mausoleum of black marble like the Taj Mahal on the other side of the river, but this wish was not fulfilled because he was imprisoned by his son in his later years.

It is said that when Shah Jahan was imprisoned by his son in the imperial city of Agra Fort, he often sat silently in an octagonal stone tower in the castle, looking at the Taj Mahal not far away, and thinking of his beloved wife Taj every day. After Shah Jahan's death, he was also buried in the Taj Mahal and accompanied his beloved wife day and night.

Timeline of the Taj Mahal: In 1631, Mumtaz Mahal, the beloved wife of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, died in childbirth when she gave birth to her 14th child. Later, his body was moved to a golden coffin in a small building on the banks of the Aglayamuna River.

In 1632, construction of the Taj Mahal began. In 1633, Mumtaz Mahal was placed in an underground dormitory under a marble pedestal and the Taj Mahal was built on top of it. In 1640, the main building of the Taj Mahal in white marble was completed. In 1653, the entire construction of the Taj Mahal was completed. In 1658, Aurangzeb, the son of Emperor Shah Jahan, usurped the throne and imprisoned Shah Jahan and the Agra Fort.

After that, Shah Jahan could only look out through the lattice of the Agra Fort, the Taj Mahal, the place where his beloved wife slept. When Shah Jahan died in 1666, his body was transported along the Yamuna River to the Taj Mahal to be buried with his beloved wife. Excerpt from. This is the ticket office located outside the west gate of the Taj Mahal.

The Taj Mahal has two entrances, the West Gate, the East Gate, and the South Gate. The West Gate and the East Gate open earlier than the South Gate, among which the West Gate is closer to the main city and the South Gate Inn area, and is the main entrance for tourists, especially tour groups; the East Gate is relatively clean, and there are slightly fewer people in line, but the ticket office and entrance are slightly far away from the main building of the Taj Mahal.

The south gate opens at 8 o'clock in the morning at the latest, if you don't want to see the sunrise, and you don't care about the number of people, the south gate is a good choice. The ticket office and bag storage office at the West Gate and South Gate are at the entrance, but the ticket office and bag storage office at the East Gate are 1 km away from the East Gate entrance. In order to be able to enter the Taj Mahal as soon as possible and take relatively clean photos.

Xueluo and Liu Jingshu didn't have time to eat breakfast and hurried to the west gate of the Taj Mahal to wait in line to enter. Xueluo is in charge of finances, and the task of buying tickets belongs to her. The snow falls hard. Tickets for 750 are equivalent to 75 RMB. For such a big-name attraction, the price of more than 70 yuan can be regarded as a good look.

In contrast, Xueluo and Liu Jingshu have many money-grabbing attraction ticket prices in China, how can they be embarrassed. West Gate Entrance. This photo was taken reflexively after the tour. When I entered in the morning, the queue corridor on the left side of the door was full of people. At half past six in the morning, the door was opened to welcome guests, women on the left and men on the right, and people were released in four passages at the same time.

Once inside, turn left and go through security. For security reasons, security checks at the Taj Mahal are strict. According to Xueluo's observations, the following items are obviously not allowed to be brought in: tripods, large backpacks, photography bags/carry-on bags, and food. Half a bag of biscuits for breakfast in the schoolbag was turned out and taken away.

The scene seen reflexively after entering the west gate of the Taj Mahal. From this direction, to the right of the entrance is the security checkpoint, where in the morning there are people waiting in line for security. The first thing that catches your eye upon entering the Taj Mahal is this brick-red building, which is the entrance to the inner courtyard of the Taj Mahal.

The roads within the eastern, western and southern gates of the Taj Mahal converge here. The building, and connected to it, is a rectangular inner courtyard 576 meters long and 293 meters wide, surrounded by red sandstone walls, with a total area of 170,000 square meters. The north-south axis of the inner courtyard is close to the north side of the main building of the Taj Mahal.

The entrance building of the inner courtyard is typical of the Islamic architectural style of the Mughal period. The red sandstone walls are covered with beautiful carvings, especially the white marble part of the wall, which is inlaid with natural gemstone ornaments and Qurans, which are very beautiful.

On the front and back sides of the building, there is a horizontal corridor topped by a string of "small hats", and there are two "big hat" minarets on both sides. This kind of architectural form, which has been seen in the Red Fort and Jama Mosque in Delhi before, shows that they are all works of a similar era. In the middle of the lower part of the building is a large arched portico with a doorway opening under the portico.

It is the entrance to the inner courtyard of the Taj Mahal. Through the arch of the entrance, the huge white figure of the Taj Mahal suddenly burst into view. Day after day, year after year, how many people stand here, quietly casting their first eyes on the beautiful Taj Mahal. According to statistics, more than twice the total population of Agra is visited by tourists every year.

After entering the Taj Mahal, in order to grab time to take pictures, Xueluo quickly walked inside to find the best place to take pictures without saying hello to his companions. If you enter the Taj Mahal late, you will be full of people as shown in this photo in front of you. Come in early.

I came here when there weren't many people in front of me. It is said to be the best place to photograph the Taj Mahal - on the platform south of the first pool, this is the only place where you can take a beautiful picture of the Taj Mahal. Let Xueluo hold his breath for a while, and then quickly pick up the camera in his hand.

By the way, this time it came out, and the wide-angle lens carried by Xueluo had a maximum caliber of only 24, and the angle was not enough to shoot such a tall building. The main body sits on a square white marble pedestal 7 meters high and 95 meters long and 95 meters wide. At each of the four corners of the pedestal stands a 40-meter-high minaret.

Since there is no shelter around the main building, it looks very tall and majestic against the backdrop of the large space. The main building is made entirely of white marble, which exudes a very holy and soft sheen throughout. It has eight symmetrical facades, of which four large facades are in the east-west-north-south direction, and the bevel between the large facades is four small facades.

There is a very large recessed arched porch in the center of each of the four large facades, and on each side of the arched portico and on the small facades at the four corners, there are two concave arched porches of the same size. In the center of the top of the building is a semicircular dome in the shape of an onion head, and in the center of the dome stands a copper spire strung with multiple spheres.

Around the dome are four small hat-like pavilions, echoing the huge dome and reflecting the majesty of the dome. The whole building is beautiful in shape, exquisite in craftsmanship, and is called a peerless work! One of the seven wonders of the world, it is not a vain. It is recorded that the outside of the dome of the Taj Mahal was originally covered with a layer of gold, but it was stolen by later British colonists.

The huge white marble body stands in front of your eyes like a dream, as if you can reach out and reach it. The whole body is covered with a variety of elaborate beautiful and delicate carvings and gem inlay patterns, just like a realistic version of the huge "Tongling Jade". At this moment, looking up at it, you can't help but be impressed by its beauty and purity.