I fly home tomorrow and am sitting in a $15.00 hotel near the Indira Gandhi airport in Delhi , killing time. I did not waste the whole day, as I took a tuk-tuk to Humayun's Tomb and Nizzumaddin in town this morning, to be discussed later. I need to catch up and get back to India/Jaipur which I never documented before Varanasi and Bodhgaya, in an attempt to keep this blog in a partially chronological sequence. Nepal will come after this.
About 40 Km out of Agra, on the way to Jaipur, is the World Heritage site of Fatehpur Sikri. The story goes that Akbar consulted a holy man who lived in the hills about a son who would be heir to the throne. The holy man predicted that a son would be born. When Akbar's Hindu wife (he had a Hindu, a Christian, and a Muslim wife) delivered a son, he decided that hilltop should be the site of his capital. So, the enormous complex/fort/palace and a mosque to commemorate the holy man, were built around 1570, and the site was the capital of the Mughal empire until 1585.
I have photos of the palace, but I think I was so put off by the hawkers and pious people at the mosque and tomb of the holy man, that I did not take any pictures of these two ornate structures.
These antelope type creatures were way off the road...
About 40 Km out of Agra, on the way to Jaipur, is the World Heritage site of Fatehpur Sikri. The story goes that Akbar consulted a holy man who lived in the hills about a son who would be heir to the throne. The holy man predicted that a son would be born. When Akbar's Hindu wife (he had a Hindu, a Christian, and a Muslim wife) delivered a son, he decided that hilltop should be the site of his capital. So, the enormous complex/fort/palace and a mosque to commemorate the holy man, were built around 1570, and the site was the capital of the Mughal empire until 1585.
I have photos of the palace, but I think I was so put off by the hawkers and pious people at the mosque and tomb of the holy man, that I did not take any pictures of these two ornate structures.
The royal platform bed...
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