FOTOS: Viagem ao Taj Mahal

Tiramos quase 500 fotos em nossa viagem para o Taj Mahal. Por mais que as fotos apresentem certos detalhes, é impossível transmitir a sensação de estar lá. Vale a pena ! 


Se você está planejando uma viagem para a Índia e/ou para p Taj Mahal, dê uma olhada no meu post com informações, orçamento e dicas da viagem.

Abaixo, uma seleção de fotos. Mais fotos podem ser vistas na página de fotos do blog.

a Hindu religious waiting for a train at Delhi Station

Carlos and Fernanda Trindade at the train station in Delhi

food kiosk at Delhi train station

chatting with a friend on the train station

me on the sleeper class cabin, going to Agra

along the way to Agra by train

west entrance portal at the Taj Mahal - there are other identical 3 portals on N, S and E

The magestic all marble Taj Mahal mausoleum

me and my wife laughing on Khan, the tour guide

Spetacular all marble with flowers and part of the koran, all done as mosaic with semi-precious stones embeded

part of the stone carved wall with layers of embeded marble

A detail pic on the semi-precious stones embeded no the white marble. There are miles and miles of this arwork at all Taj Mahal building

the mausoleoum bulding pic took from the never used guest house

hundreds of carved marble portals around the building

all 4 sides of the building are symmetrically identical

more carved marble on the lower part of the building, like a baseboard

internal walls with carved marble and mosaic stones

28 different stone gemms were used for the flowers and arabesque - 22.000 man took 20 years to build Taj Mahal

the mosque and the mausoleum. 245 foot high

guns and roses

detail on how the semi=preciou stones are sliced, cutted and take forms for a drawn composition. The white marble is all carved, so the thin stone pieces can be inserted in

table top done with the same artwork technique used at Taj Mahal. 1 1/2 years to make it by two artists

at the Taj Resort Hotel, around the swimming pool, so kind old man singing and plaing

well....a little female artist posing next to her huge artwork at the train station