And THEN we went to the Taj Mahal.

A World Heritage Site.

No doubt, one of the most beautiful man made places in the world.

And once inside the gates an almost completely 'tout' free zone.

According to Rudyard Kipling 'the embodiement of all things pure'.

According to one Indian poet 'a teardrop on the face of eternity'.

Built by the Emperor Shah Jahan as a mauseleum for his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal, who died in childbirth with her fourteenth child in 1631.

In total, twenty thousand people from India, Central Asia and Europe worked on the building.