Taj Mahal
Delicious breakfast included – banana and yoghurt, freshly made Spanish omelette, followed by toast and honey and coffee.
We said our goodbyes and thank you’s to the staff and left at 7.30 for our 2 hour drive to one-time capital of the Mughal empire, Fatehpur Sikri.
Here we stopped for a guided tour round another fort before our final hour and a half to Agra.
We arrived at Pushp Villa Hotel and took a buffet lunch in the revolving bar (which didn’t revolve for us) on the top floor. We then had a couple of hours rest before our highlight of the week. Our room was noisy with traffic outside so we changed to a back room over looking garden. However we had to change again later because the air on was very noisy.
The minibus made it’s was through another very busy but more touristy town to a car park where we took to a golf jeep to take us the last stretch. We had to go through security but finally there it was, a majestic building which could have been made of ice as it calmly rose up at the end of a long stretch of water. Many people had come to see the light on the great dome at sunset, although it wasn’t too busy that you couldn’t walk towards it in wonder and touch the towering pillars of marble. We walked through the tomb where we were not allowed to take photos and through to the other side where the great river flowed close by.
Everyone had to leave immediately after sunset and I imagined what a tranquil place it must be then.
We returned to the hotel to freshen up before dinner.
Chicken tikka from the bbq was my choice at the rooftop bar of the Maya restaurant.
A pino colada to round off the day in our hotel bar before bed.