Beautiful art work- all inlaid

Agra and the Taj Mahal

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March 7th 2017
We headed for Agra and on the way were greeted with the sight of many people digging up potatoes and bagging them. This is the potato capital of Utter Pradesh we were told. The road was lined with numerous trucks all heavily laden with sacked potatoes. In Agra we went past the massive fort and crossed the Yumana River to see the Taj Mahal at sunset but before we did we went on a Mughal Village ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more