Pictured above: My favorite photo from my visit to the Taj Mahal
There are some cities, sights, and monuments you wait your entire life to visit. You see them on the cover of every history book you have in school, and you can’t imagine actually seeing them face to face. Among these monuments for me are spots like the Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China. While traveling through India and China, I knew I couldn’t leave the country without seeing them.
And once you see them, you want to memorialize them through photos. Because I don’t collect souvenirs (other than a postcard from each country), photos are the only items I “take” from each place I visit. This makes them all the more special to me, and I like to return to them every so often. Sometimes I even forget just how incredible a place was, how much I loved an outfit, how I felt during that travel day, or other small details that come back to me through photos.
Recently, I decided to return to the photos I took while in India during my visit in September 2019. Here are some of my favorite photos I took at the Taj Mahal.
A similar shot to the photo above, which captured the beauty of the mausoleum with very few people in the background
A shot of the Taj Mahal from farther away
My recreation of Princess Di’s photo on the Taj Mahal bench
Another shot under an arch from a different perspective
A photo of Dan and me standing in front of the Taj Mahal before we were dating