This is called the Baby Taj (as in the Taj Mahal).  It is located in Agra, India, the same city as the Taj Mahal.  It was also built by the same King, Shah Jahan.  However it was built may years earlier.  When the King's father-in-law died his wife (the one burried in the Taj Mahal) said that she felt he should show appropriate respect for her father and build him a tomb.  So he built what is now called the Baby Taj.  It is the size of a large house, in fact the door you are looking at in the center is probably only 7 feet tall.  From here you can see the same river that passes by the Taj Mahal, however it is around the bend and on the other side of the Yamuna from where the Taj Mahal is, so the Taj itself is not visible.


At the center of New Delhi stands the 42m high India Gate, an "Arc-de-Triomphe" like Archway in the middle of a crossroad. Almost similar to its French counterpart war memorial. It commemorates the 70,000 Indian soldiers who lost their lives fighting for the British Army during the First World War and bears the names of more than 13,516 British and Indian soldiers killed in the Northwestern Frontier in the Afghan war of 1919.   This picture was taken from the side of the road, and I didn't get any closer than that because there were recent terrorist threats to blow up the India Gate.  The only reason I was even this close was that the path between the sites I had seen and my hotel went right past it.  The taxi driver pulled over on the side of the road, stoping traffic long enough for me to snap a picture, and we were off again.  You can see that security was high, the road directly across the street from me was closed, as were many other streets in the area.  The Presidential Palace and the Parliment Building are near by (also closed to the public due to terrorist threats).  Take note of the rickshaw on the left hand side.  It is a little three wheeled taxi, they are all over the city and I had the opportunity to ride in one (see the next picture).


This is Parag (a co-worker who is originally from India) and I inside of the rickshaw.  They are a really cheap form of transportation, however the drivers speak no English (as compared with the taxi drivers who speak a little).  Even though they are cheap the drivers get your money!  We got in one about 3 kilometers from my hotel, and by the time the driver dropped me off the meter read 7 kilometers (double what it should have been :).  Oh well, I think the entire ride was something like 50 or 60 cents!