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Six Mistakes To Avoid At The Taj Mahal
ost of your visit to enhance your enjoyment of what
India’s most-famous you will see and feel. Do
attraction is natural and yourself a favor and enjoy some
inspiring. If it is your first reading and research beforehand;
visit, however, it is easy to the more you know, the richer
make the following mistakes your experience. Guidebooks, such
as Eyewitness, are helpful.
Mistake 1: Make your visit too
short. Mistake 3: Remain with your guide
or group during your entire
Buses have been known to allow as visit.
little as half an hour to “see”
the Taj Mahal, which is hardly After hearing what they have to
time to walk the length of the tell you, leave them and wander
reflecting pool. If this is your to a secluded spot so you can
bus’s timetable, consider finding gaze at this wonder of marital
another. Allow a minimum of two love on your own. Carve out time
hours to fully savor the “poem in for solitude. Sit on a bench and
marble.” contemplate the grace, balance,
and beauty of Shah Jahan’s
Mistake 2: Arrive with no prior creation.
knowledge of the Taj Mahal.
Mistake 4: Limit your visit to
The Taj Mahal is a mausoleum and the Taj Mahal to only one time of
not a palace; it was created by a the day.
Mughal king in honor of his wife
who died giving birth to their Throughout daylight, the marble
fourteenth child, and it is dome reflects sunshine with hues
covered in real marble. There is of pink, orange and white. Clouds
much more to the story that will and rain add additional interest.
In Agra, the sky provides a
backdrop for the double dome of The Taj Mahal is the single most
the Taj Mahal. See as many of photographed place in India. You
these variations as you can. can add to this distinction with
Count yourself blessed if you are your own images. Unless you are
able to see the Taj Mahal in the certain you will return shortly,
moonlight. visually record your favorite
sights while within the walls of
Mistake 5: Become frustrated with the Taj complex. Are you drawn
the guides and photographers. to the walkway? The row of shoes
outside the entrance? The black
It is a popular business to and white pattern of the
impart information and produce a platform? The inlaid prayer rugs
lasting memory for you at the Taj in the mosque? Whatever they are,
Mahal. Guides will ask if you record details as touchstones for
want them to tell you about their remembered pleasure
country’s most famous attraction.
Photographers will want to snap From the moment you enter through
shots of you during your visit. the gate and stroll along the
Most of them are citizens of the dazzling, rectangular reflecting
country you are visiting. If you pool, the lovely mausoleum will
have made plans that exclude your draw you to its marble steps.
need for their services, refuse Slipping off your shoes, you will
with firm courtesy. Your desire pass into a softly lit interior,
for personal viewing time needs and circle two richly inlaid
to be balanced with their need to caskets beneath a great domed
work. ceiling. The carvings on the
walls, the spectacular dome, and
Mistake 6: Don’t take any—or the harmony of all the details
enough--pictures. are there for you to admire.
touched by the Taj Mahal. It is a
The truth of the matter is you sight undiminished by
could actually make all the expectations.
mistakes above and still be
About the Author:
Sandra Wilson’s historical fiction, reveals the Who, What, Why, When and Where of the Taj Mahal. Go to http://www.taj-womanandwonder.com for more information on this highly researched novel.
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