Day Thirty-Eight

4:30 a.m. -- Our ride picked us up.

6:30 a.m. -- Our train departed from the Delhi station.

8:30 a.m. -- We arrived at the Agra train station and picked up our guide.

9:30 a.m. -- Taj Mahal. WOW. A Mughal emperor built this marble marvel as a mausoleum commemorating his third wife. He intended to build a black Taj across the river as his own mausoleum, but his power hungry son wanted to use finances elsewhere and halted construction by placing his father under house arrest. Thus, the tomb of this Mughal emperor now sits next to his beloved third wife and is the only component disrupting the Taj Mahal's perfect symmetry.

11 a.m. -- Agra Fort. The walled city where the Mughal emperor who built the Taj lived freely with his family and then later under house arrest with tremendous views of the Taj from his windows.

1 p.m. -- Lunch.

3:30 p.m. -- Fatehpur Sikri. This beautiful complex housed an emperor and his three wives, one Hindu, one Christian, and one Muslim. While there, we danced in the rain.

6:30 p.m. -- Dinner.

8:45 p.m. -- Our train left the Agra station.

12 a.m. -- We arrived home safe and sleepy from a full day.