A Picture is Worth...

...One Thousand Rupees

A few pictures of India. I did not take many pictures and after I was home there are several things I wish that I had photographed in order to give you a better picture of what we encountered. I wish I could show you the train station and train that we traveled on. I wish I could show you the traffic. I wish I could show you a picture of what I saw when looking out the window of the train. I wish I could show you the market and the stores. I wish I could show you the faces of the children. I wish I could show you the flags the women carried from each state represented at the seminar. There are so many things I wish I could show you, but I will settle for the few pictures I took. 

The Taj Mahal is incredible. Honestly, it is very surreal to look at the pictures knowing that I took them myself. It is such a beautiful masterpiece. The precision and detail are magnificant and there are no words or pictures that can capture seeing such a site. 

All of the images in the white marble are made of semi-precious stone. They replaced the precious stones after many of them were stolen. The black Hindi writing in the picture below is Onyx. 

I am so grateful that my dear friend, Lezlie, took this journey with me. Without her, I would have been so lonely. :)

When entering the Taj Mahal, you see room after room like this one. Each was used as a guest room for the king's guests. 

We went to the back side of the Taj Mahal at sunrise to see the sun come over the water. It was a little too overcast to get a great picture with the sun rising, but as soon as we drove away the sun peaked through the clouds. It would have been a perfect picture. 

Henna and the Taj.

I loved these birds. They are something common, you will probably know the name, but I don't remember. I'm not a bird watcher. 

Feisty Cobra

Khjaruraho Temples

Nasty. Yes.

Red Bull--my lifeline for a few days.