ILLUSIONS COLLECTION

Taj Mahal is kind of a building in which no construction error can be judged. It is considered as the symbol of love for all the mankind as was actually a symbol of love between Shahjahan ( Emperor of India ) and Arjumand Banu Begum commonly known as Mumtaz. She died at the young age of 39 and Shahjahan ordered to construct this great monument to keep her memory alive. He was already famous as a great builder of his time but after the death of Mumtaz he thought that he would give the World such a monument that will remain forever. The contruction of this great monument started in year 1633 AD with around 20,000 labours for about 17 years consectively. The specialists for its construction were hired from other than India as well including Persia and Turkey to complete it.  

The above shown is location of Taj Mahal in the map of India in state Utter Pardesh Known as UP and in that there is city of Agra Highlighted in red. In second map exact location of Taj Mahal is shown for the ease of understanding of readers.

If you have carefully viewed the aerial view photograph then you must have observed that that they are two smaller buildings on either side of Taj Mahal. The above photograph is of the left hand side ( Eastern ) building if Taj Mahal is viewed from the front as shown in the aerial view. It is a picture of standstone gateway to the inner compounds having ornamental gardens.

The above images are of the right ( Western ) building of Taj Mahal and is inner and outer view respectively of red sandstone mosque.

The image above is of the enternace of one of its gates which is a great piece of architect as a lot of verses from Quran are engraved into it in a very beautiful manner.

The 2 of above images are showing that how night adds to the beauty of this monument. First one is animated wallpaper and the second one is original photograph at night. 

It was also included in the final list of new official seven wonders of the World in 2007. It is located in Peru ( South America ) about 80 kilometers from the city of Cusco in the mountains of Machu Picchu. Its height is 7710 feet above mean sea level. It is considered to be the most important place of South America and atteracts maximum tourists in Peru. This city was a military secret due to its location in mountains and provided excellent defences.

The lost city of Incas in Machu Picchu is the most important symbol of Inca Empire. Its history goes back to around 550 years as it was built in 1460 AD and was discovered in 1911 AD by an American Historian Hiram Bingham.

This ancient piece of art was included in the new official wonders of the World in year 2007. Petra was an ancient city in present Jordan and presently atteracting a huge amount of visitors/tourists from all over the World. It is supposed to be somewhat 2000 years old and was oocpied by an Arab tribe known as  Nabataeans. Enterance of this city is through a narrow gorge and at the end of city you will find an opening or enterance of Al Khazaneh ( Arabic word means Treasury ) as shown in th image above. This city consists of a lot of wonders but in these all this treaury is most worthseeing sight of all. Otherwise it takes about four to five days to completely explore this wonderful ancient city. The city consists of hundreds of rocks and tombs out of which many have been destroyed due to earthquakes in the past, however, about 500 of them are still intact.

It had a roman style theatre which was built in 1st century AD has a capacity of about 6000 people to sit. Its image is shown above. It has got 45 rows of seats and the theatre faces North West direction to avoid the effect of direct sunlight into the eyes of spectators. Front portion has been destroyed by a lot of floods in the past.

Place of high sacrifice in ancient city of Petra. It was known to recieve the sacrifices of young boys and girls to make God Al Uzza happy.

There are two museums in Petra a new one and an old one built by carved by Nabataeans in the Habis mountains. The old one has some very unique things to see however, the new one has got a huge collection of items.

The petra approach is through siq to the main city ruins but no motorized vehicles are allowed to move in that area. If you cannot walk then the transport shown above canbe hired locally.

Ayer's Rock in Australia is considered as one of the most important in the list of natural wonders of the World. It is also known as Uluru commonly and its location is Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Parkin in central Australia. The important thing in this piece of wonder is that it is the biggest sand rock on earth. It was believed to be discovered by Australians in 1872 by an expedition in recent known history. Some of its images and map location is shown below.

This is a very difficult Picture to judge. It appears that there is a small polar bear lying on the stem of this tree with eyes open. But actually it is a small patch of snow placed on a tree in such a manner that it appears like a bear. The question arises that how come its eyes are visible, some of you might have judged it correctly that these are the two branches of the stem protruding out in such a manner that they look like eyes of this bear and its nose is a piece of rotten leaf!

It is for those who are in habit of driving while they are drunk. It is a kind of public message in a funny way that beware drunk people and do not drive like this otherwise you will be parking your vehicles at this place while others will park in the proper parking lot.

It is also one of the very famous and old pictures but for all those who have not seen this or similar to this picture before  it is an illusion containing dual faces. If you see it and observe closely there is a young lady with a fur coat on and looking towards other side. The line joining the 2 furs is the bend in her neck and one of her ears can easily be seen. Now if you concentrate on the same neck line you will find that they are the lips of an old lady looking left of the picture. The ear of young lady is now merged into the eye of old lady which is on our side. The other eye of both ladies are same. Another similarity between the both ladies is that they are putting on the black fur coat. Due to these similarities it is very difficult to judge the illusion at first sight.

Look at the illusion below, what can you find? There are two questions, if you stare at a single cube, do the adjacent lines appear to slide past each other? Secondly, are the horizontal lines drawn between the cubes are straight?

This illusion is resulted from our optical visual system and natural ability of the eye which tries to arrange the broken black and white boxes or squares into orderly vertical bars. The illusion has a noticeable importance or movement when you focus on any single square.