Aram Bagh — the "Garden of Rest" — is the prototype Mughal garden in India, three kilometres upstream of the Taj on the eastern bank of the Yamuna. The four-quartered charbagh plan with raised paths and water channels was something Babur knew from Central Asia; he reproduced it here to make himself less homesick, and the form became Mughal orthodoxy for the next 150 years.
The garden has been restored by the ASI in recent years. The pavilions on the river side are largely ruined but the plan and the water system can still be read on the ground. Few tourists make it out here, which is part of the appeal.