Trip to Korea

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This is a white tiger which are quite rare. Again the barrier between us and the tiger seemed pretty easy for a tiger to get across, but, presumably the tiger wasn't very hungry and stayed in his enlosure. The next place we visited was the Red Fort which is shown below. This fort was from the same era as the fort we saw close to the zoo, but is much more famous and kept in better repair. It covered a fairly large area of, perhaps, 20 acres, all surrounded by high walls. On the right below is the main entrance. In the left of that picture is the bridge you have to cross to go through the gate. New Delhi Zoo. =0=
Red Fort, India. Red Fort, India. =0=
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However, before you go through the gate you have to cross the moat shown above on the left (from the bridge). After you cross the bridge and go through the gate you are then in another courtyard shown above on the right with battlements overlooking. Yikes! Then you go through another gateway and up a tunnel for about 30 yards and then up an incline and until you get to an open area. This is what you would see off to the right. The guide tour took us that way and into that building which was probably barracks for soldiers or cubicles for monks as there were lots of small rooms. Below on the left are some very nice columns facing one of the courtyards in that building. Then the tour went to the top and the guide tour was talking about something or the other and we got bored. There was a stairway down into the building and no signs or barriers so we went exploring. We had gone down the hallway you can see on the left there (with the windows) and then taken a turn to the left to get this picture below on the right below. Red Fort, India. =0=
Red Fort, India. =0= Red Fort, India. =0=
There were rooms along the hallway with windows facing a different court yard. We had great fun exploring on our own.The building was in pretty good repair, but empty. This is an inner courtyard that we found in our explorations. After we left that section we walked through some sections that weren't in such good repair as seen below on the left. The also had a chance to look out through on the windows along the wall to see the moat and wall from that view. Red Fort, India. =0=
Red Fort, India. =0= Red Fort Moat, India. =0=
Then we went to the palace section which had some very beautiful arches. Below on the left is the ceiling of what my recollection was a bath area. The guide would often explain that the roof would be decorated with jewels and such but that the city was sacked in 1400 or so and all the jewels were taken leaving only the impressions of where the jewels were in the plaster, but they are still very nicely decorated. Next to that is a view from the queen's section of the palace. This would be one of the first examples of central air conditioning as there would be stream running through the center of the building with heated water during the winter and cool water during the summer. Also, the pillars would have pipes through them as well as the floors to heat or cool the walls and floors so that the whole building was kept at a comfortable temperature. Red Fort, India. =0=
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