Agra Fort

After a nice meal the night before overlooking the Taj Mahal on the hotel's rooftop, we woke up at 5am to see the sunrise at the Taj Mahal. However, they didn't open the gates till 6:30am and then I was a security risk because I had scissors in my First Aid Kit. I was escorted by men with guns out of the Taj and told to put it in the locker (about …

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Today it was confirmed that apart from its major sites, Agra is a bit of a dump. However, there is building work going on everywhere so at least there is some hope that it could get better at some point in the near future. I felt pretty dire today, I think even with the litres of water I've been drinking, I still haven't been drinking enough and …

If the elephant safari didnt top off a brilliant week of festivals we had a great weekend ahead to Agra to see the Taj Mahal!

Left about 7.45am saturday on our way stopped at the Chand Baori stepwell in Abhaneri, built in 8-9th century by the then king; made with a temple inside believed that if you use the water from the well and prayed …

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The tour started yesterday with and introductory meeting. Our group is mostly girls and mostly English with some Norwegian and some Danish thrown in. Everyone seems very down to earth and our tour leader, Ruby (though it says Buby on the information sheet) is really lovely.

Today is the first proper day of the tour and we got up at 4.30am …

After a 12hr train trip from Mount Abu to Agra Fort Station we arrived to the promised city, the city that hosts the suggested most beautiful building in the world and one of the 7 world wonders. I had dreamt all my life about seeing one day the Taj Mahal, the greatest monument to love in the world, and I was so afraid that I would be disappointed …

Hotel - Jaypee Palace (muy bonito) Taj Mahal - impresionante! Todo de marmol blanco. Lo construyo el emperador Sha Jehah como mausoleo cuando murio su esposa Mumtaz Mahal. Ahi esta tambien el enterrado a la par de ella. De lado izquierdo viendo hacia el Taj Mahal esta la mezquita. Los minaretes estan construidos hacia los lados por si hay un …

Oh my god 4:30am wake up call are you kidding me!! I thought it was a joke, no such luck. Fortunately for me (at the moment) I'm not sleeping very well and managed to wake up at 4am after three and a half hours sleep. None of us looked with it and at that time in the morning getting organised was not easy. Abhi our group leader (or CEO for those of …

... better after doing so and by the time I climbed up into my berth for the overnight journey to Varanasi, India again seemed an adventure after the blip that was Agra. P.S. - I should also mention that since my last entry I spent a day in Pushkar: once ...

... hot water with great pressure!!! We checked out this afternoon ready to jump back into the fray. Just visited a site we missed last time, the Agra Fort, and soon we will be catching another overnight train west to Jodhpur in the state of ...

... 't see it from various other places, and there are also plenty of other sites to see in Agra. Our first stop was Agra Fort, initially built by Emperor Akbar in 1565. It comprises of many palaces, mosques and audience halls, where select concubines were ...

... superlatives.   We are going to be coming thru Agra again in about a week to break up a long train journey and to see the Agra Fort and a few more of the sights that are a bit out of town.       Katie Said:   Ditto all ...

... incident like Jaipur. Haven't googled trains, there seemed to be a lot more trains leaving from Agra Cantt train station than Agra Fort, so even though it was further away we decided to head that way. Outside the hotel, a tuktuk driver was dropping off ...

... view. When the call to prayer rang out from the mosques at about 6 o'clock it was a pretty surreal experience. We also visited Agra Fort, the Baby Taj and a couple of other sites around Agra and there are some pictures loaded with this entry.   ...

... to choose 6 women for the night to take to the bed and this is supposedly where the term "King size bed" comes from. Anyway after Agra Fort we dumped our luggage at the hotel and went straight to the Taj, with no need to meet back at our meeting point ...

... sure. I returned back to the hotel about 9am and had some breakfast, then just killed time until the late afternoon. I decided to go to the Agra Fort as well. It wasn't nearly as cool as the Taj, but it was still worth the visit. It is made mostly out of ...

... ) while we waited for our real train. It finally arrived, we got on and were on our way to Agra, home of the Taj Mahal and some of India's other biggest tourist attractions. We arrived early the next morning (Thanksgiving, actually) and headed to a ...

... third of India's mughal emperors and a very intelligent man who had three wives of three different religions. His designs within Agra Fort reflect his efforts to embrace all the major religions in India, with many of the carvings containing symbols from ...