Agra Bed and Breakfasts - Reviews and Rates

At 6 am on March 12th we took the second class (2A/C) train from Jaipur to Agra. This was like heaven compared to 3rd class. We were the only ones in our berth area. By noon we were ready to eat lunch and then go to the Taj Mahal. The Taj Mahal was everything it is said to be. It was beautiful. There were hardly any foreigners (maybe because the...

My train to Agra left Delhi at 06:00. It was early enough to get me to the Taj Mahal before the main crowds and heat of the day. When I got there I was persuaded into a taxi. The car was unmarked and another man got in next to the driver. The combination immediately put me on edge. I soon relaxed as the non-driver began to real off facts and fig...

Notes from a Canadian who can't resist a bit of cultural observation. As Michelle and I sat on the rooftop of our hotel in Agra, we got chatting to a number of other groups of travellers. One of these groups included two girls and a guy from Utah. As we chatted, the guy leant forward and something fell out of his pocket. It was metal, about 6 in...

I know at least a few of you reading this now have heckled me for my slow posting of this blog. There were a lot of factors that contributed to the delay of the India blog. Tests, papers, short inter-port intervals between countries, and various other activities that either occupied my time or distracted me. However, as much as those inconvenien...

I gotta say Agra has a bit of a pong about it. Everyone says India smells but I havnt found that so far. Sure there is the odd smell when someone dumps a steaming **** on the footpath in front of you but generally I have found it to be OK, til I got to Agra. It smells like a sewer. The train was 5hr late coming from Varanasi cos we were stopped ...

Span and Kylie set off in the dark for a sunrise view of the Taj while I lay on my deathbed. Manage to extend check out to midday when I manage to drag myself up to battle through another day in India. I set off on a solo mission through the back streets of Agra and am almost trampled by a bull fight in the streets. My mind is slow as my body an...

The train-----slowed as-----it came-----to the-----edge of-----Agra. Anoth-----er train-----passed by-----going-----the opp-----osite-----direc-----tion. Each pass-----ing car-----cut the-----view in-----to still-----pictures. Woman in a field-----2 children walking hand in hand-----a meadow with trees in the distance-----large kilns with smoki...

Having left cool, dank Shimla we trained down back through Delhi, and further south to Agra, the city of the Taj Mahal. Perked up quite considerably by the warmer weather we arrived in the evening, whereupon Christian managed to negotiate a pretty pleasant place to sleep for the princely sum of pounds 4.20. We visited the Taj the next morning at...

Well, another day on the road!. We arrived in Agra today at about 2:30. After going to our rooms for a short freshening, we headed to the Taj Mahal. So, I did get a chance to experience the visit on my actual birthday...India time! (My sister and brother-in-law seem to think that I won't really be 49 until tomorrow...Pacific Coast time!!!) Anywa...

Sorry it has been so long since our last update!!! We have moved much farther North! Since we last wrote we had a wonderful time at Ajanta caves--truly amazing cave paintings from circa 600 BC; we took a lot of pictures but photography inside the caves was stricly forbidden in order to protect the amazing fresco paintings inside......it was nice...