My travel story and some photos to Steem for BetterLife by @jollymonoara

Assalamu Alaikum
Happy New Year. How is everyone in the community? Let's welcome the happy new year and everyone is well and healthy. Today I posted Steam for Better Life for the first time, I hope you will like it, and I apologize if there is any mistake. Please invite me to your community to write more in the future. My user id is @jollymonoara on Steemit. I am also well, so I sat down to write a little about my travel story. After the children's annual exams, I try to go to the country or abroad for a little change. I visited some places in Uttar Pradesh, India, and will share them with you. If you want to go outside the country, you need to do some advance work like visa and ticket work.


After getting the visa my husband confirmed the ticket. If we don't purchase the train tickets before leaving, it will be a little difficult to get the tickets after reaching Delhi, so he confirmed all tickets including return tickets from Bangladesh online from Indian Railways (IRCTC). After confirming everything we are ready to go to Delhi. We boarded DAC-DEL (Dhaka to Delhi) flight BG 397 aircraft Boeing 737 and reached Delhi at 03:00.It took us about two and a half hours to reach Delhi from Dhaka.
The next morning at 06:00 I boarded the Taj Express to Agra Cant. Traveling by train in India is very comfortable and safe. The journey is no longer difficult due to the sleeper class. Hawkers bring food to every station. It took us about 4 hours to reach Agra Kant from Delhi by train. After leaving the station, we all had breakfast at a restaurant in Agra. After breakfast, we went to Agra's Red Fort. After visiting the Red Fort, We went to see the Taj Mahal in Agra.
The day was 25 December Christmas, a public holiday. There was a huge crowd of people. As there were more people in India, there were also many foreigners. The ticket line was long line, after standing in line for two hours, you will get the ticket. The ticket price is 50 rupees for Indian citizens and 540 rupees for Bangladeshis and a passport is required. My husband kept us all away and went to collect the tickets himself. He went and saw that there was no one at the foreign ticket counter, he left. We didn't want to hire a guide, so we had to take a guide for our own convenience. We didn't want to hire a guide, so had to hire a guide for our own convenience who charged Rs.975.Actually, it was good to hire a guide, within a moment the ticket guy came and gave us the entry ticket. We were brought to the entry gate in the crowd of so many people. We entered through the western entry gate.



There is security at the gate, they check thoroughly to see if anything is there. Mobile phones can be taken inside but no food items are allowed. After checking the bag and getting the food, he puts it away. Then I entered inside. We wandered around looking at the entire Taj Mahal and the more we saw, the more amazed we were. The beauty of the Taj Mahal cannot be described without seeing the huge building up close. Emperor Shahjahan had so much love for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, as a sign of love for which he built such a palace, which is one of the seven wonders of the world. The Mughal Emperor Shahjahan built the Taj Mahal on top of his wife's tomb in memory of her after her death and she was also kept here after her death. In fact, both lovers are buried here.

They have two graves underground and their demos are above ground. People from the far corners of the world go to see this sign of their love. From a distance, it looks like a royal palace, but the closer you get, the more beautiful it becomes. What is the work, what is the design, I am surprised?Some truly remarkable inventions were executed by Emperor Shah Jahan's plans and architects. A mausoleum at one end of a quadrilateral garden, on the banks of the river Yamuna, can only be established by a genius. It is a square platform. The interesting thing is that no matter what direction you look at the Taj Mahal, all sides look the same. In fact, that's how it's built.

The Taj Mahal is located on the banks of the Yamuna River in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan loved his second wife Arjumand Banu Begum (also known as Mumtaz Mahal). He vowed not to remarry after his wife's death and to commemorate her on earth he built the Taj Mahal as a token of love in her memory, a magnificent royal mausoleum. Taj Mahal is made of white precious marble stone which is translucent and imported from Rajasthan. Red, yellow, or brown stones were brought from Punjab. Hard white green stones were brought from China, green bluish (turquoise) gems from Tibet, sapphires from Afghanistan, brilliant blue gems from Sri Lanka, and Khairy or white-colored gems from Arab countries.

These twenty-eight types of precious stones are designed on a white marble stone. There are calligraphies of the Quran all over the complex. There are calligraphies of the Quran all over the complex. The Taj Mahal itself is famous for its beauty. The colorful stone work on the white marble is so beautiful that you can't turn your eyes away. All over the Taj Mahal there are such crafts.
. On one side of the Taj Mahal on the bank of the river and on The eastern building is a mosque and on the other two sides, two mahals have been constructed for two more Bibi. And on the other side he made a guest house. The buildings around the Taj Mahal look similar. The gardens are similarly arranged.And there are a total of 16 gardens on four sides. It is a wonderful craft to see the designs of different colored stones on the white marble stone. It looks like a painting painted by an artist with red, green, blue, white colors. There is a peak like a crown on the big dome. The top of the peak looks like the moon. There are total 20 such peaks. Our guide said these peaks were made of gold that was stolen. Later they were repaired with bronze. I heard word of mouth that it took 2000 people 20 years to build the Taj Mahal around 1632s. Like. It took one year to make one peak or 20 years to make 20 peaks.
They also made houses around for the workers to live. The construction workers promised to design the Taj Mahal like they could not do anywhere else. We have a misconception that the emperor cut off the hands of 2000 workers. In fact, Emperor Shah Jahan built houses around the workers to live in and paid huge sums of money to the workers so that they don't have to work anywhere else. That is, he bought the hands of the construction workers with money. This is what we know he cut off his hand.
What I have written about the Taj Mahal I have described myself and some information I have learned from Google. Apologies if I have given any wrong information. We went around and saw the Taj Mahal, took some photos with our mobile phones. We had i phone 7,8 and infinix. I have added the photos of these mobiles here. After taking some rest, I went towards the river.

This view also looks a little different. All in all, the environment is very nice. We felt very small in front of the Taj Mahal. I am like a Lilliput near the great palace. Finally, I will say that Taj Mahal is a perfect work of art that has been built so many years ago, where so much labor, sharp intelligence, and so much price have to be paid.


And this was possible only with the deep love of both of them. Everything was possible for love. I will not waste your time today. Everyone will be fine.
Thank you
Monoara Begum
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