Agra, India Travel Blogs

Agra - You just have to visit the Taj Mahal....
Dec 4, 2008 (7 photos)

... ; There's kind of a wierd twist to our mentality here where back home you wouldn't trample on someone else's grave but here in India at the Taj we only seem to happy too whilst sharing this experience with a million other people..... Ok, a it's more of a ...

Taj fantastic
Mar 8, 2007 (10 photos)

... return to Leeds and find the right words to explain what we have seen and paint pictures for people who will never see the real India.  Tonight we had a last meal in Delhi, and i finally got to wear my Sari (thank you Vinny) which was a gift ...

A short vacation from India
Feb 2, 2007 (4 photos)

... in a while you have to take a break to just veg out to give your brain a respite. We decided to take a short "vacation from India" on the way from Varanasi to Jodhpur. We took an overnight train to Agra and then used points to stay in the plush Mughal ...

Tourists and Taj
Oct 13, 2005 (2 photos)

just the morning spent in agra, for the last stop of our trip, and i would say that it is enough. the city is very polluted. anyway the most obvious stop on our callender, the Taj Mahal. a rip off to get in, indians pay 20 rupees, tourist pay 750, but well ...

The Taj!!!
Jan 23, 2007 (5 photos)

... Poor Todd...he had to deal with both a cranky KT and a cranky KJ for the first part of his day!   Arriving in Agra, I must say that I was really surprised at how relatively clean and nice the city was.  From what I had heard and from what Todd ...

Akbar's City
Jan 10, 2006 (48 photos)

... Sikri. Akbar, the greatest Mughal leader (so they say), built this city but only lived there for 14 years before abandoning it for Agra in the early 1600's. Some say it was because of the very poor water supply. So the story goes, even though he had ...

Agra and the Taj!
Feb 7, 2007 (18 photos)

... 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 ...

Incredible India
Sep 26, 2006 (15 photos)

****work in progress *** please check back later for more pics and the full story*** About once a quarter Melanie goes to India for a very fast 2-3 days of meetings. Normally she arrives at midnight the night before the meeting and leaves at 2 a.m the ...

The Taj Mahal
Jan 23, 2007 (19 photos)

... to find the right bus, with no hassles and lots of friendliness. He told me the same story about bad people in India, especially Agra. His was one of hope, however--Agra was much improved over the last few years, with less hasslers. "The police are ...

Thanksgiving at the Taj
Nov 25, 2005 (5 photos)

... ) 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 ...

India - Agra
May 6, 2007 (55 photos)

... building most of the fort, not on his own obviously, he did have a bit of help! He was the 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 ...

A little less 'Agra' than Delhi...
Nov 4, 2004 (4 photos)

... the station! Enjoyed a comfortable trip to Agra, but once we were there we were rickshaw-ed to the wrong state bank of India and understandably got lost when we followed our map towards our hotel which was in a completely different part of town near a ...

The Taj - is it worth it?
Nov 12, 2005 (38 photos)

... for it's time. We had a lovely walk back to our hotel looking at all the interesting, intriguing things you find here in India. Bullocks being shod, random band members dressed up in bright red and black outfits hanging out in a park, well, an expance of ...

The Taj Mahal
Dec 19, 2004 (24 photos)

... a room, but honestly, it's a romantic place. The Taj Mahal, one of the seven wonders of the world, a beautiful building in India made of marble. That's what most of us know about the Taj Mahal, but there's a sad beautiful and romantic story behind it: ...

Agra- vation
Jul 1, 2005 (4 photos)

... forgettable experience. We walk out of the Fort and get inundated by touts wanting to sell us everything. Agra is apparently one of the worst places in India for pushy touts so I practise various techniques for getting rid of them: the complete ignore; ...

Megan and the Paparazzi
Nov 6, 2005 (8 photos)

... everywhere. Everyone had a ticket and a separate bed. We also got a pillow, sheet and blanket for the journey. Arriving in Agra we made our way, via an auto-rickshaw that dropped us halfway then on separate pedal rickshaws, to the Yash Cafe. They had ...

Agra and the Taj!
Feb 19, 2008 (22 photos)

... for inflation, the estimate is that it would cost $300 billion to build today... Next, we went to the Red Fort of Agra.  Not only did this fort have an awesome view of the Taj, but the buildings were much more impressive than the similarly ...

HOT HOT HOT and the Taj
Apr 25, 2009 (52 photos)

... nice.  He did a good job at making my bad beard look as best as it can...bad.  P.P.S India is HOOOOT P.P.P.S We have moved on from Agra now and i did write this a little while ago.... we are currently in Jaipur enjoying the sights and ...

The Booze Run
Dec 7, 2004 (4 photos)

... UK & Kerry the dizzy whatsit had left hers in Delhi so there we were in the back of the rickshaw freezing in t-shirts. It's India for God's sake it's supposed to boiling all the time. We arrived at the Taj Mahal & swallowed at the Rs750 entry; that's ...

A week in Delhi and a trip to the Taj
Jan 19, 2004

... there are hundreds of tourists vying for the same spot as you to stand!) and eventually headed back to Delhi after our big day out. We leave India tomorrow - mum heads back to Oz and Steve and I to Thailand (yay!). Sun, surf and seafood here we come!

Taj Mahal...
Jun 7, 2005 (18 photos)

... see it 'in the flesh' as you get a sense that you've seen it before due to it being such an iconic figure 'representing' India. This de'ja vous soon evapourates once you climb the platform and get up close to the main structure which is quite simply awe ...

Agra - Uttar Pradesh
Feb 22, 2006 (6 photos)

... beauty. We take pictures, our guide takes pictures of us and we walk and talk until it is dark. If there is one reason to come to India this is it! We thank our guide and pay him his fee - well its just a tip really you pay what you think it was worth and ...

Agra (Taj Mahal) - Day 33
Mar 27, 2008 (21 photos)

... and most Indians seem to lack them. I realise this is cultural but as a well brought up westerner I struggle with this.   India's relationship and opinion of the British? Well when I came to India I didn't really know what the Indians thought of the ...

The Taj
Aug 2, 2007 (3 photos)

Agra and Mathura
Nov 4, 2004 (12 photos)

... wasn't in Agra, we may have skipped it altogether. I fought a certain bit of dread regarding our penultimate destination in India, knowing that Agra, home to the Taj Mahal and therefore one of the most visited cities in the world, would be a madhouse. We ...

No Taj, but how I became a Rickshaw driver.
Jun 2, 2006 (5 photos)

... it. There is much more to India than the Taj anyway, and really that is what I came here to find: The Real India. . . Of course being a bit of a touristy place, there are bicycle rickshaws everywhere, and also it being the off season for the Western ...

The never-ending heat. .
Jun 1, 2006 (5 photos)

... for my next destination, Agra. Home of the Taj Mahal, one man's testament to the love he felt for a woman. . I'm there in Agra right this minute, Found a cheap room. . The hotel Ratin Palace should be called the hotel "Rotten" palace, to tell the ...

The Taj Mahal
Jan 3, 2006 (9 photos)

... , as the Taj Mahal. It is one of the most moving and striking things I have seen on this trip, and indeed in my life, and for all the difficulties one may experience journeying through India, this is one of those day's that makes it all worth while.

Agra - flowers in the dirt
Nov 10, 2008 (23 photos)

... us of the Top Kapi in Istanbul, which was roughly contemporary, but somehow more care was taken with these two monuments in India, making them more impressive. Based solely on the merits of these two buildings, Agra would be one of the most romantic ...

Chittor to Agra: ruins, tigers, birds and the Taj
Apr 6, 2004

... BIRD SANCTUARY Just a few hours by train north of Ranthambore lies a marshland that is one of the most important for birds in India. Together with Miranda, a Dutch girl from my town Utrecht, who I met on the canter, we rented bikes and set out to spend ...