The Road to the Taj

The road to the Taj is a road well traveled, by man and by beast. It's a road that teems with life from sunrise until well after dark. Humanity lives and works and chatters and cooks and eats and drinks and laughs and bargains and gossips and sells and buys (among the more mentionable things) on each side of this road, which usually bakes under an unforgiving sun. At the end of this road, the Taj promises a glimpse of utter tranquility, this monumental and mysterious memorial, this dream in gleaming white marble.

We enter through the gardens, a woman faints in the heat and is quickly surrounded by saris...and there, there it is...