Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India (Morning 02/04/19-03/04/19)

We arrived in the evening so went straight to bed as we planned to wake up before sunrise to beat the crowds at the Taj Mahal.

We woke up at 4.30am, got ready and headed to the Taj Mahal. We were probably in the first 50 people that were let through and it wasn’t as busy as we expected at all until about half an hour/ 40 mins later. The Taj Mahal is one of the 7 wonders of the world so you would expect that it would be good but it really was AMAZING. We both loved it and the early get up was worth it! We took lots of photo’s, walked around, went inside the Taj itself, where no photography is permitted and sat on a bench for a while when we’d done enough walking around as it was getting hot. Inside the Taj was the tombs of Shah Jahan and his wife. His wife died giving birth to their 14th child and so, he built the Taj Mahal in her memory and this is where she was buried. Later, he was also buried there.