If the traveller considers himself a pilgrim in Agra then he is assured of joining one of the grandest pilgrimages he’s ever known, for no sooner does he enter the city beneath the government’s propitious welcome sign, beckoning him to the splendor within, than he is joined at the hip by a throng of thousands, maybe tens of thousands or—as they say—many lakhs of fellow pilgrims surging inward to the great monument of the world.

Read more at The Tuque Souq:

Part 1: The Traveller departs Delhi for Agra

Part 2: On Mathura Road

Part 3: The Taj Mahal

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