Taj Mahal: One of the wonder of the world (Part – 4)

By Asad Russel – 

After Part – 3
The tourism at the Taj Mahal:
A huge number of tourist attacks the Taj Mahal every year. In 2001 more than two million tourists recorded the UNESCO, which includes from the overseas more than 200,000 visitors. There is in place a pricing system of two tier, for the citizen of India with the entrance fee which is lower significantly and for the foreigners the more expensive one. In the months of cooler season from the October to February visits most of the visitors. Near the complex is not allowed the polluting traffic and from the parking lots either must walk the tourist or an electric bus you can catch. As the new visitor center for the use being restored recently the Khawasspuras which is the northern courtyards.

From the Taj Mahal to the south the small town as the Mumtazabad or Taj Ganji which known to serve the needs of the workmen and visitors with the markets, caravanserais and bazaars was constructed actually. The Taj Mahal often features as the travel destination of recommended the lists, in the modern world of seven wonders in the listing of several which appears also, which includes the New Seven Wonders of the World what announced recently, with the votes of 100 million in a recent poll.

In the weekdays for the from 6:00 am to 7:00 pm are open the grounds for the Friday except when between 12 pm to 2 pm at the mosque for the prayers only is open the complex, of the full moon on the day for the night viewing is open the Taj Mahal and also before and after two days, but the Fridays and the holy month of Ramadan excluding. Inside the Taj Mahal for the security purpose are allowed still cameras, ladies small purse, mobile phones, video cameras of small size and in the transparent bottle the drinking water.

The myths about the Taj Mahal:
The construction of the Taj Mahal ever since, of geography and transcending culture of an admiration has become the source the building complex and of the monument scholastic appraisals eclipsed consistently have the responses of emotional and personal too.

Across the river of Yamuna as a Black Taj Mahal in the black marble to be built another mausoleum planned the Shah Jahan that holds the myth of longstanding. From the Jean-Bapriste Tavernier’s fanciful writings originates the ideas, who was a traveler of Europe and in 1665 was traveled the Agra. It could be built before by his son Aurangzeb was overthrown the Shah Jahan that was suggested. This legend to support seemed the Mahtab Bagh which situated in the Moonlight Garden across the river for the blackened marble the ruins.

However, in the 1960s was carried out the excavations which found that they were the white marbles which discolored and with the weather struggling after centuries into black had turned. In 2006 in the Moonlight Garden of the pool for the part who reconstructed by the archaeologists was demonstrated for the black mausoleum of the origin one more theory which is credible than the before. Clearly could be seen for the white mausoleum a reflection of dark, with the symmetry obsession of Shah Jahan befitting and itself of the pool the positioning.

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