Squeezing down a dusty alley in Agra, I was incredibly nervous to think that the Taj Mahal would fall in to the most unfortunate of travel categories. You see there is a moment, and most travellers will experience this at some point, when you finally lay eyes on a place that you have dreamed of. Maybe you have planned a whole trip around reaching it, maybe it is just a stop off or maybe it is a city you have always wanted to visit. You stop, look around and a horrible sinking feeling creeps in;
“…is this it!?”
The Taj Mahal the stuff of legend, the most recognisable symbol of India, somewhere that people have raved about to me and so I approached it with great trepidation.
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