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Richly painted ceiling on a wall at Akbar's Mausoleum in Agra, India

Inside Akbar’s Mughal Mausoleum in Agra, India

March 2, 2019by Albatz Travel Adventures 8 Comments

In India of the late 1500s, Akbar the Great* commissioned three magnificent examples of Indo-Islamic architecture: the walled city of Fatehpur Sikri near Agra, his father Humayun’s tomb in Delhi and finally […]

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Architecture, India, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge
Baby Taj, a Mughal structure built completely from marble

Itimad-ud-Daulah (Baby Taj) in Agra, India

March 1, 2019by Albatz Travel Adventures 6 Comments

This is the paradox of India, buildings so beautiful, and shit everywhere.” I am quoting a conversation I had with a woman who came into the washroom of the Baby […]

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Architecture, India
Decorative ceiling of the Chini tomb in Agra, India

Chini Tomb in Agra, India

February 26, 2019by Albatz Travel Adventures 2 Comments

After an early morning at the Taj Mahal we negotiated for a tuk-tuk (as we called the three-wheeled vehicles) to take us around to a few other sites in Agra. […]

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Architecture, India
arches at Agra Fort

The World Heritage Fort in Agra, India

February 8, 2019by Albatz Travel Adventures 3 Comments

In the morning we went off to the Agra Fort with Abbib, a auto-rickshaw driver we had met the day before. The Agra Fort, a 16th-century Mughal fortress, is another UNESCO […]

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India
columns in pierced screen in Fatehpur Sikri in India

Fatehpur Sikri, a Fort & Palace just Outside of Agra, India

January 29, 2019by Albatz Travel Adventures 5 Comments

This picture was shot during our bus ride to Fatehpur Sikri, a walled city in India. I couldn’t see much because the driver was blocking my view but, “you really don’t […]

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India
Taj Majal Silhouette

Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouettes of the Taj Mahal

August 15, 2014by Albatz Travel Adventures 13 Comments

At six the gates opened to the Taj Mahal and a crowd raced to the east side where the Taj was set aglow by the rising sun. We were alone as we headed […]

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India, Weekly Photo Challenge
Sikhs visiting the Taj Mahal

A Masterpiece of Mughal Architecture, the Taj Mahal

July 26, 2013by Albatz Travel Adventures 19 Comments

The trouble with photographing architectural masterpieces is that they’ve already been photographed about a billion times before. The Taj Mahal is no exception, a mausoleum of white marble built by […]

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Architecture, India, Photo Challenges, Weekly Photo Challenge

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