and my spider-sense was tingling about tickets to the show. Turns out, I was right - when we returned, the show was sold out. rats. So, we left. But we DID spend quite awhile in the Nehru Museum, saw many cool things and it was free, so not a total loss :)
This is a tunnel under the building. I am not sure what this was.... temple, shrine, I don't know. But it was tall and had lots of stairs.
The museum had HUGE balconies, and large open verandahs. There were nice views of the gardens. This is a view of some guys sleeping in the garden. I was surprised that the armed guards didn't move them.
It
is a beautiful building, with rooms furnished as they were when Nehru and Indira Gandhi lived there. (not at the same time, of course!) There were hundreds of photos and copies of letters and newspaper articles about India's fight for Independance. To read it all would have taken days. I realized how basic my knowledge about India's history is. 
There were some neat rooms filled with gifts that different countries gave to Gandhi when he visited- 
carvings and boxes and dishes and ornamental weapons and all kinds of cool stuff from all over the world.
When we were done there, 
we looked at the map to see what else we could see that was close, and decided on Humayun's tomb. We spent over an hour in there, with me not realizing we were in the OUTER area, and hadn't even been inside the garden area of the actual tomb yet! The place is HUGE!
There are narrow stairways
to 
get up to the walls or to the little gazebo thingys (that is a technical term - memorize it!) and they are dark and steep and kind of scary. As I have mentioned before, no rails, no fences, no barriers, no nothing. Be careful and wear sensible shoes!
It is an accepted fact that Humayun's tomb inspired the Taj Mahal, and you can see some similar elements. This tomb was built by Humayun's widow in 1565. It is not as spectacular, being not all marble, but it is so large you can't help but be impressed. We kept thinking we were seeing it, then we would go thru one more massive gate and enter yet another huge garden.
This is the actual gate to the good stuff - impressive, eh?
The main structure is up quite high. We climbed SO many stairs, I was really feeling the burn! So much so, that the next day I had a bit of trouble walking normally. How sad is that?
When we came thru the gates, we could realize that we had been oohing and aahing over all the wrong stuff! It really is impressive. And the grounds were beautiful.
Are they in the stocks??? funny.
These are tombs. Only apparently, the actual tombs are underground. These ones are for show. Family members of Humayun are buried here too.
I like the star shaped windows.
The details are amazing - everything is so complicated! I cannot imagine the manpower
it must have taken to build these massive things!
These guys are doing some repairs. Nice scaffold, eh? Can you see the rope that hangs in the middle? That is the elevator up and down.
And it looks so safe.
Some kids that are done with walking around.
On the way out, we saw an area that was (300 years ago) a market, all set up with permanant stalls for
merchants from other countries. It is being 
renovated, and there were workers, and next thing I know, Alex is running at me and someone is yelling, and it turns out she was taking photos of them and they wanted money!
I said no way - she was just a kid! So they let it go.
Like the gate? I LOVE these giant gates!
This was a good day - we learned some stuff at the museum, we took about 400 pictures at a HUGE 400 year old monument, we ate french bread in the sun, and the whole thing only cost 100 rupees.
we looked at the map to see what else we could see that was close, and decided on Humayun's tomb. We spent over an hour in there, with me not realizing we were in the OUTER area, and hadn't even been inside the garden area of the actual tomb yet! The place is HUGE! 
There are narrow stairways
to 
get up to the walls or to the little gazebo thingys (that is a technical term - memorize it!) and they are dark and steep and kind of scary. As I have mentioned before, no rails, no fences, no barriers, no nothing. Be careful and wear sensible shoes!
It is an accepted fact that Humayun's tomb inspired the Taj Mahal, and you can see some similar elements. This tomb was built by Humayun's widow in 1565. It is not as spectacular, being not all marble, but it is so large you can't help but be impressed. We kept thinking we were seeing it, then we would go thru one more massive gate and enter yet another huge garden.
This is the actual gate to the good stuff - impressive, eh?
The main structure is up quite high. We climbed SO many stairs, I was really feeling the burn! So much so, that the next day I had a bit of trouble walking normally. How sad is that?
When we came thru the gates, we could realize that we had been oohing and aahing over all the wrong stuff! It really is impressive. And the grounds were beautiful.
Are they in the stocks??? funny.
These are tombs. Only apparently, the actual tombs are underground. These ones are for show. Family members of Humayun are buried here too.
I like the star shaped windows.
The details are amazing - everything is so complicated! I cannot imagine the manpower
it must have taken to build these massive things!
These guys are doing some repairs. Nice scaffold, eh? Can you see the rope that hangs in the middle? That is the elevator up and down.
And it looks so safe.
Some kids that are done with walking around.
On the way out, we saw an area that was (300 years ago) a market, all set up with permanant stalls for
merchants from other countries. It is being 
renovated, and there were workers, and next thing I know, Alex is running at me and someone is yelling, and it turns out she was taking photos of them and they wanted money!
I said no way - she was just a kid! So they let it go.
Like the gate? I LOVE these giant gates!
This was a good day - we learned some stuff at the museum, we took about 400 pictures at a HUGE 400 year old monument, we ate french bread in the sun, and the whole thing only cost 100 rupees. 
