Saturday, May 7, 2011

The Crown Palace

The Taj Mahal (which means the Crown Palace) is beautiful and amazing. An Indian emperor made it as the tomb for his wife. It took 22,000 workers 22 years to complete. We spent the day making the 4 hour trip to Agra, touring the Taj Mahal with a great local tour guide, eating lunch at a 5 star hotel, touring the Agra Fort, and coming back home. It made for a long but memorable and fantastic day.


The gemstones are set into the marble in a beautiful and precise way. It's so smooth you can hardly even tell the gemstones aren't part of the marble.


Beautifully intricate marble carvings. Wow. We learned a lot about the differences between Italian marble and Indian marble.


In 1968 Andy Warhol said, "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." Today was my time. I had probably over 25 people come up to me and ask to have their picture taken with me. Apparently many of the people that visit the Taj Mahal have never seen an American and people in their villages never have either. So they like to take pictures so they can take them home and show people that yes, we really do exist. Carl and I laughed every time someone asked to take a picture with us. It was hilariously fun. I really did feel like a celebrity.

4 comments:

Peg said...

Apparently they aren't all about Mr Carl, huh?

Courtney said...

Thanks for posting all the pics. That is so beautiful. I am sorry you had to hear about our life story on your 8 hr drive. Hopefully Carl didn't bore you to death! I thoroughly enjoyed your Mr. Carl post, and I am sorry that it has been like that. Thanks for putting up with Mr. Carl. Thanks for helping keep him in line while you are there!

Craig said...

Princess, you look so beautiful in front of a palace! Small wonder so many people wanted to take a photo of you. It sounds and looks as though it was certainly worth the trip. Love, Dad

~ Natalie ~ said...

Sweet! Moriah that is so awesome that you went to the Taj Mahal! I am glad that you get to be tourists while you are there working. That is hilarious that everyone wanted to get their picture taken with you. I think you may have found your calling in life... You just need to set out a hat to collect money while you pose for pictures :)