A hot summer day, the sun waiting impatiently for the morning and blazing in all it's glory. I had planned on going for a heritage walk to Humayun's Tomb so my father and I got ready and landed up at 8:51 A.M. It was one of those days which are not exactly hot but seem very hot.Our guide had kept a roza which meant he could not eat or drink for the next few hours as it was the first day of Ramadan.I couldn't imagine how difficult it must have been to talk the whole time without a sip of water but little did I know that he would be so more immersed that he wouldn't feel the need for a sip and neither did we.
As we approached the Isa Khan Tomb Enclosure I could feel the excitement, I felt the walls and their texture left a tingling sensation on my fingers. These monuments leave you feeling in awe of them. Theses structures have found against the ravages of time and they carry an air of royalty and a sense of eeriness about them. I say that because of the graves that reside there. The bodies of those great rulers who are most respected in history. It's hard to believe that they are those, whose stories you heard and fought those great battles which we learn about. I would say it's incredible. To be there and absorb of all that, I was plenty interested and engrossed. With that attitude we moved ahead to Arab ki sarai, a place where the workers who built the tomb would stay but the structure was dilapidated. The Archaeological Survey of India was trying to recover it but it was not in a good state and the progress seemed pretty slow. I was disappointed until I got to know about The Aga Khan Trust for Culture.
The Aga Khan Trust for Culture is an international organization which is working on recovering this monument, they have done a great job of the buildings we saw and it feels so great that there is a strong will to preserve the immense culture that resides in our country. I was hugely impressed with their efforts and I was even more impressed when I saw Humayun's Tomb. It was a vision, as we climbed up to the tomb we could feel a welcoming breeze. I loved the view and I was not only enraptured by it's beauty but how well it was kept. The monument was spic and span, not a wrapper or any sort of inscription in sight. I was proud to be there and unhappy that we had com to the end of it. We climbed down and I looked at the sun, it was shining bright but our faces seemed brighter.
As we approached the Isa Khan Tomb Enclosure I could feel the excitement, I felt the walls and their texture left a tingling sensation on my fingers. These monuments leave you feeling in awe of them. Theses structures have found against the ravages of time and they carry an air of royalty and a sense of eeriness about them. I say that because of the graves that reside there. The bodies of those great rulers who are most respected in history. It's hard to believe that they are those, whose stories you heard and fought those great battles which we learn about. I would say it's incredible. To be there and absorb of all that, I was plenty interested and engrossed. With that attitude we moved ahead to Arab ki sarai, a place where the workers who built the tomb would stay but the structure was dilapidated. The Archaeological Survey of India was trying to recover it but it was not in a good state and the progress seemed pretty slow. I was disappointed until I got to know about The Aga Khan Trust for Culture.
The Aga Khan Trust for Culture is an international organization which is working on recovering this monument, they have done a great job of the buildings we saw and it feels so great that there is a strong will to preserve the immense culture that resides in our country. I was hugely impressed with their efforts and I was even more impressed when I saw Humayun's Tomb. It was a vision, as we climbed up to the tomb we could feel a welcoming breeze. I loved the view and I was not only enraptured by it's beauty but how well it was kept. The monument was spic and span, not a wrapper or any sort of inscription in sight. I was proud to be there and unhappy that we had com to the end of it. We climbed down and I looked at the sun, it was shining bright but our faces seemed brighter.
