Last Saturday we awoke to a long day of travelling. After 4 hours in a bus, 2 hours waiting in Madurai Airport, 1.5 hours on a plane, 4 hours in Chennai Airport (which may or may not have involved 2.5 hours of spa treatment and $60 worth of hot chips), another 3 hour flight, 1 hour clearing customs, and 1 hour of travelling to our hotel - we finally arrived in Delhi and went straight to bed (not before reuniting ourselves with Wifi and Western showers)!
The next day we departed on a three hour bus ride to Agra. A stop at McDonalds taught us that Indian Macca's is vastly different from that in Australia, and ended with our first encounter of beggars on the street.
We then had a fanTAJtic, once-in-a-lifetime experience, ticking the Taj Mahal off our bucket list. It was magically breathtaking to see such a famous landmark in the flesh and to explore the inside of the building (albeit the claustrophobic crowds).
We later visited the Agra Fort, where we admired the architecture and the grandeur of the palace building.
After dinner at the hotel, we departed once again to the Taj Mahal for the coveted opportunity to view the monument under the full moon. The sparkling building was awe inspiring and seeing it in the moonlight was an incredible spiritual experience.