Taj Mahal: India's top tourist attraction.

Described as the most extravagant monument ever built for love, that the Emperor Shah Jahan constructed as a memorial for his second wife who died while giving birth to the fourteenth child, the Taj Mahal is an architectural masterpiece.

After paying 750 rupies (14 dollars) tourist entrance fee , as to the 5 rupies that indians pay to get in, and an hour long queue (one for women and one for men) we finally got to visit this remarkable beautiful building.

We took the typical tourist photos and carried on our visit around Agra spending time at the Red Fort, a massive red stone fort and palace on the bank of Yamuna river, which actually became the Emperor Shah's prison when his some overthrew him and took power.



Later we took a motorised rickshaw to the other side of the river to watch the sun go down over the back of the Taj Mahal. The views from here are even more spectacular.