FAMILY TRAVEL
@Lorna_Explorer
AFTER A HOT, DUSTY AND incredibly noisy day exploring Agra Fort, this was our first glimpse of the Taj Mahal. We’d been aiming to visit a sunset-viewing platform just down the road from where this picture was taken, but it had just closed when we arrived. So we climbed a sand dune with a couple of other stragglers. In the distance we could see the specks of hundreds of tourists beneath the Taj, but this view gave us a completely different impression of the site.
PHOTOGRAPHS: MARK READ, LORNA PARKES
Once the kids were asleep we ordered curries and a couple of beers from the homestay’s family kitchen and had them on the roof-terrace beside our room, with the illuminated, ghostly Taj Mahal visible in the distance.