Taj Mahal Agra

Long train journey, a hotel that was ok but not as good as we expected (as for once we booked ahead and got our hopes up) although the manager was good craic and a very sound. Agra is a real dump to be honest as we had heard. It is the dirtiest place we have been to and to make matters worse a lot of people try to sell you **** and do so …

Jaja wieder mal ä Driving-Day, dr längst bis itz. Mir si wieder mega früeh los gfahre und super ir Zit gsi bis mir i Stou si cho. Äs isch ä mega Unfall passiert u das het dr ganz Verkehr ufghaltet. I u paar anderi si de usem Truck um ga ds luege was so abgeit und warum mir hie stöh u plötzlich gseh mir wie sich alli lüt umdräie und afö i üsi …

Well what an ******* the tour assistant from our hotel is!!!

Got picked up at 6.00am this morning. All ready for our 3 hour car journey to the Taj in Agra, which actually turned out to be 6!!!

So we get in the car and start driving on the "motorway". Was a little bit on the nervous side the way the indians drive. Would have liked …

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Entry containing 26 photos titled: Taji Mahal, Baby Taj Mahal, Thali set at a luxury restaurant, Taji Mahal from the other side of Yamuna river, Agra fort, Entrance gate to Taji

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 …

At 4:30 a.m. the day after a full-on day of metro-hopping to visit remnants of Mughal (Islamic) empires in Delhi, we rose to catch the 6:15 a.m. train to Agra for more of the same. Our train ride was a luxury ride for us, with comfortable reclining chairs, although I found the AC a bit chilly and the breakfast caused problems for both me and Dan …

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 …

Took a day trip from Delhi to see the Taj Mahal and other sights in Agra. the journey takes 4-5 hours and the highway between the wo cities is absolutely chaotic. Some parts are OK as you travel between small towns but as soon as you reach a junction there is absolute chaos as cars, bikes, lorries, pedestrian and cows all compete for space and the …

India - day 3 - Agra
Up at 5am to get down to the Taj Mahal at sunrise.
Epic.
Amazing.
Left there and had breakfast on a rooftop restaurant with breathtaking views of the Taj in the background. Our driver then collected us and took us off to the Red Fort of Agra. An amazing tour of an incredible world heritage building.

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... slept poorly and my intuition about my hosts was proved accurate the following day when I returned from a sunrise visit to the Taj Mahal: I was taken to the family marble 'museum' (i.e. shop) and pressurized to make a purchase, feeling quite intimidated ...

... be used as boat anchors. Puffs of diesel smoke and thud-d-d-d vibrations through walls and cobblestones. And then there is the Taj Mahal. My Agra room overlooks her. It would be obscene to call something this beautiful “it”. The building is a ...

... amazing       Todd Said:   Pretty much the only reason people come to Agra is to see the Agra Fort and the Taj Mahal. Anyone who has visited will tell you that for the most part the city is a tourist-trap with very little to ...

... marble was just gorgeous and I took many photos of everything (with Lou's camera as my batteries died when I entered). The Taj Mahal is a tomb, so a respectful air was evident all around. It was lovely, peaceful, quiet and clean. The Indian people have ...

Unlike other monuments or natural wonders that are over advertised or pictures of which you have seen far too often the Taj Mahal actually is magnificent. It is raised up on a platform with only the sky for a back drop and is so white that it looks ...

... Bharatpur in the morning heading east to Agra. This was going to be one of the big highlights of the trip because Agra is home to the Taj Mahal, arguably the most magnificent structure in the entire world. The bus to Agra was only an hour and a half and ...

New Canon camera for round the world trip to capture those special moments.....£200 2 nighs accomadation in Agra, home of the Taj Mahal.....Rs 800 2 entry tickets to the Taj for sunrise......Rs 1500 The stupid middle-aged American woman cutting half the ...

... Chris to join and for Melanie to take some vacation time after the meetings. In this way we got to see a bit of Delhi, Agra (Taj Mahal), and Jaipur. It's only a tiny piece of a very large, complex and interesting country, but we were glad to be able to ...

... well worth getting up early for, and watch the sun lighting it up. a real breath taker, but what else would you expect. the taj mahal was built by a mongul emperor as a tribute the one of his perfect wifes,who died at child birth. apperntly they think he ...

... we egged up the courage to awake before dawn, put our boots on (like the killer in 'the end') and head to the Taj Mahal. As you can imagine it was an indescribable spectacle. Hopefully the addition of pictures to this travelogue will assist! Agra is ...