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India is a beautiful and magical place. I wish I could say my journey to get to this exact vantage point was the just as beautiful and magical, but it was not.
I really wanted a unique vantage point, and I was reticent to try to set up inside the complex with the teaming crowds. So, I talked my driver into taking me to the backside of the Taj Mahal because I had seen a river back there on Google Maps. We started circumnavigating the place and we came to the old trestle bridge. It was quite a long stretch to get across the river. The bridge was just barely standing, and everything about the dilapidated structure was sketchy. We were the only car on it, and it was hard to get around all the ox-carts, donkeys, and bicycles.
Looking out the window at the rusting girders, I asked our driver, “When was this built?”
He wobbled his head and said, “Eighty-three.”
Well, I thought for a moment. That doesn’t sound so old.
Then he turned back to me, “Eighteen Eighty-three.”
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Sahir K 4 months ago | reply
Awesome..!! Perfect.... Taj Mahal can,t be more beautiful than this.. Hatss offf
Bhanu Devgan 3 months ago | reply
WOW.... came by this picture from my fav's gallery.... a pleasure to view this after such a long time. Simply Beautiful...
LorinczD 3 months ago | reply
Never seen Taj Mahal photograph from this angel before its just spectacular capture of the spectacular Monument .
cbroult 2 weeks ago | reply
Beautiful indeed!