Thursday and Friday, May 19 & 20
Thurs went to Red Fort, Mongul fort that Muslim rulers governed India before the British, and after the Hindu Maharajas. The Muslim Mongul kings ruled India in the 1600 & 1700's, and one of these kings built the fort as their palace from which they ruled India. Like other of My descriptions, it is another superlative, huge, beautiful red sand stone and white marble, and in the Mongul rulers throne and living quarters precious and semi-precious stones inlayed into the marble and then sanded , so unlike painted designs on the surface of the material in this case marble, the inlayed stones are as fresh 400 years later as they were when they were made. The same inlayed technique was used in the Taj Mahal. I remember reading the descriptions by the first British sailing ship captain who met with the Mongul King, of his reactions to the glamorous living quarters of the Mongul kings. He later made the first trading deal on behalf of the British nation and the Mongul powers for silks, spices... in exchange for British technology and goods...guns, cannons... next we drove to the grounds around the Taj Mahal, and from where we had to leave the vans and walk almost a mile to the Taj grounds. It's not just the Taj itself, but a mosque, three or four gates, which are large buildings each in themselves, in the walls around it, and to complete the symmetry matching buildings on the other sides. Got my picture taken just where I remember Hillery sat for her pic at the Taj... it has been very very hot, got to the hotel sopping wet from sweating, had to wash everything I had on. Today was a trip to a national park. Tigers have been removed to another park because so many people around the the park edges. There are many bird species, permanent birds in the park and migratory birds from cooler and wetter south India, and others which fly in from Siberia and other points north. Got great pics on my camera. Oh the traffic, wandering sacred cows and buffalo in the streets, guys pushing overloaded carts on foot in the middle of the road, bicycle rickshaws and 'trucks', motorcycles with one, two, three, four and five people on them, or huge loads of freight, converted motorbike taxies many-most grossly overloaded, garishly decorated trucks, busses, .. all jockeying for the positions on the road. Right lane people and vehicles turning left, and vice-versa cutting in front of one another, driving on the wrong side of the road, vehicles,people in roundabouts adjacent to one another going in all four directions... Cairo traffic was a breeze compared to Dehli and Agra's.
Thurs went to Red Fort, Mongul fort that Muslim rulers governed India before the British, and after the Hindu Maharajas. The Muslim Mongul kings ruled India in the 1600 & 1700's, and one of these kings built the fort as their palace from which they ruled India. Like other of My descriptions, it is another superlative, huge, beautiful red sand stone and white marble, and in the Mongul rulers throne and living quarters precious and semi-precious stones inlayed into the marble and then sanded , so unlike painted designs on the surface of the material in this case marble, the inlayed stones are as fresh 400 years later as they were when they were made. The same inlayed technique was used in the Taj Mahal. I remember reading the descriptions by the first British sailing ship captain who met with the Mongul King, of his reactions to the glamorous living quarters of the Mongul kings. He later made the first trading deal on behalf of the British nation and the Mongul powers for silks, spices... in exchange for British technology and goods...guns, cannons... next we drove to the grounds around the Taj Mahal, and from where we had to leave the vans and walk almost a mile to the Taj grounds. It's not just the Taj itself, but a mosque, three or four gates, which are large buildings each in themselves, in the walls around it, and to complete the symmetry matching buildings on the other sides. Got my picture taken just where I remember Hillery sat for her pic at the Taj... it has been very very hot, got to the hotel sopping wet from sweating, had to wash everything I had on. Today was a trip to a national park. Tigers have been removed to another park because so many people around the the park edges. There are many bird species, permanent birds in the park and migratory birds from cooler and wetter south India, and others which fly in from Siberia and other points north. Got great pics on my camera. Oh the traffic, wandering sacred cows and buffalo in the streets, guys pushing overloaded carts on foot in the middle of the road, bicycle rickshaws and 'trucks', motorcycles with one, two, three, four and five people on them, or huge loads of freight, converted motorbike taxies many-most grossly overloaded, garishly decorated trucks, busses, .. all jockeying for the positions on the road. Right lane people and vehicles turning left, and vice-versa cutting in front of one another, driving on the wrong side of the road, vehicles,people in roundabouts adjacent to one another going in all four directions... Cairo traffic was a breeze compared to Dehli and Agra's.
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