After the majesty of the incomparable Taj Mahal we traveled out of Agra to the abandoned capital of Fatipur Sikri. We were expecting to be a little “monument weary” by this stage but the city was a vast and stunning testament to an India before the British. An India of an architectural sophistication and religious tolerance that we could do well to emulate today.
Wandering through the old palaces was like walking through a CGI Hollywood set for a vast historical epic, except this was very real and largely unchanged.
One of the most striking things was the combination of religious influences in the architecture. Hindu, Islamic, Christian, Buddhist images all together in the same buildings and columns.
After Fatipur Sikri we hit the madness and mayhem of the Indian roads again to head into Rajistan and on to Jaipur
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