Day 8: Agra

Today, after we woke up, we had breakfast and then got into the car for a long six hour car ride to Agra, in which we saw bullock carts, camels, and a lot of smoke and fog. It is a little warmer in Agra than in Delhi, but they are both much colder than Mumbai. We checked into our hotel, had lunch, and then went to the Taj Mahal! I thought that it was a miracle of mathematics and engineering. There were things that if you messed up by a centimeter, the whole thing would not be as magnificent. Almost every single part of it was exactly symmetrical, except for the tombs of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal. Each petal of each flower of each marble slab of each side of the Taj was a separate stone that was inlaid into the marble with infinity glue. There are probably millions of flowers on the Taj. The gate in front of it was made so that at a certain point, the Taj is perfectly framed within the arch of the gate. We then, with our guide, went back to the hotel, and we had dinner.