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| Trying to outshine the Taj Mahal - and succeeding |
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| The Taj is a mausoleum, built by the grieving Mughal emperor Shah Jahan for his dead third wife, Mumtaz Mahal |
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| The movement of the sun gives the marble a new complexion. To the right you can see the eastern gate of the complex, which is beautiful in itself |
We visited the Taj Mahal first in the early morning, and we admired it again from our guesthouse rooftop at sunset. There I called my mom while we watched langurs jump from building to building and local kids fly their kites in the dusk wind, all set against the backdrop of the "Crown Palace."
From Agra Christina and I caught a bus to Rishikesh, where we spent our final days of this adventure together. Christina met her peers and took a taxi from Rishikesh to her yoga teacher training course eight nauseating hours north in Uttarkashi. I traveled to Delhi and boarded my flight west. I held it together until British Airways aired A Single Man. Then I cried in the lavatory.
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