Fatehpur and Sikandra

After some lunch, we headed to Fatehpur and Sikandra. It is a sprawling complex of buildings/palaces, meant to house the three wives of the king. (The guide had a really good story involving intrigue, court drama and all that). A short walk away from the royal palaces is the complex that houses the tomb of one of their revered holy men, who allegedly advised the king to marry a Hindu woman in order to sire a son.

It was really hot (I'm a complainer, I know), so I didn't get a lot of what the guide was saying. Here are pictures.

I tried the panorama function but there's still distortion between the second and third frame. I have to work on that.

Here is a pool. In the middle of which is the area where the musician, who was able to light fire with his music, used to play. (Again, a fascinating legend)

This was designed by the king to symbolize the coming together of the Catholics, Muslim and Hindu (he had wives of those religions).

At Sikandra, you are required to remove your shoes to get inside...and it isn't very clean inside as they have a market and a lot of people and not a lot of trash bins.