Author: tjiskavw

This guy was my driver from Agra to Jaipur - and quite the character! He's nibbling his favorite snack, coconut. Practically every hour on the hour, he'd turn to me…

In India the roads ( including the main highways) are shared with animals either being herded or as a sacred beasties accustomed to wandering the streets on their own.

I now know why this is considered one of the 7 wonders of the world - for its construction only the world's best ( not India's - the world's )…

An interesting phenomenon: people take more pictures of themselves instead of the landmark they've traveled miles to see so it was refreshing to see this kid had the right instinct…

As we know, the building symbolized eternal love when it was built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan to immortalize his inseparable companion and beloved wife after she died in…

While at the Taj Mahal, this group asked me to take their picture so when I asked them to give me their camera so that I could do that, they…

In an era marked by invasions, power was symbolized by grand forts - the dividing line, as it were, between the ruler and the ruled. The Agra Fort is so…

a jealous son imprisoned his father in Agra Fort so that he could rule without interference. But he was considerate - the rooms for his father gave him this view…

conservation of these monuments seems to be done in much the same way they were built thousands of years ago.