---- Photos from Agra

A bonafide moat... how cool is that? This is Akbar's (Moghul Emperor) Fort, Agra.... and this second picture is me in a dungeon inside the fort... I got excited when the tour guide said that one of the Moghul Emperor's was thrown into the dungeon... so, in I went... (The King was put in as a short term sanitarium because his father thought he was crazy, always smoking opium and sleeping with lots of women) upon later clarification, I found out that it wasn't the same dungeon....
This is my favorite shot I got of the Taj Mahal, it's from inside the mosque that flanks the Taj...
As part of our tour package, we were taken to a marble-works shop that does handmade marbles in the traditional technique with which the Taj was built.... so much beautiful art there. The artisans pass the trade on from father to son.... it had a cool kind of spirit to the place... Anyhow, this picture is of our tired and annoyed tour guide sitting amongst so many of these extra large marbles... this picture is especially"wow" to me since I saw the price tags on these peices.... they're all several thousand bucks... and I mean US dollars, not rupees.

The Taj Mahal frames this picture on the left, and on the right is a dome from the mosque that I took the first photo from. Lovely....