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Fatehpur Sikri Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Fatehpur Sikri, India
Things are looking up
This is a top pick! ... shut up compared to the mentalness during the day but of course the station was still jam packed! I must say the train service in India is pretty good. 2 hour train costs 5 pounds each and you get tea with biscuits and then a hot breakfast served to you! ...
Back towards Agra !!!
This is a top pick! ... 30 years before it was abandoned. This was due to the lack of water in the area. That was our stay in Agra again. Visiting Fatehpur Sikri was good, and now we have the complete set of Agra sites. Our next stop is Jodhpur in Rajasthan, and by the way, ...
Fatapur Sikri
From Agra we took a bus to Fatapur Sikri, about an hour and a half to the west. Here, we toured an old mosque and fort, both remnants of the Moghul city that once thrived here. See the Agra entry for more details on the sights ...
Day 27 - Jaipur to Bharatpur
Met up with a guy from Oklahoma and travelled to Bharatpur by bus - 4 hours of bone-shaking and arrived at our destination and were releived that there was not the same numbers of hassling rickshaw drivers. Made our way to the Guest-house run by Mr ...
Visit to the walled city/fort of Fatehpur Sikri
... our beautiful hotel to travel back to Delhi to catch an 8pm flight. Before we sent to Delhi, we stopped at a walled city/fort named Fatehpur Sikri which was built by the Mogals also. It took about 1 hour to reach the fort and along he way we saw people ...
Fatehpur Sikri
... was on pills and spent the rest of the day sleeping while Shaun went and had a look at the sights. Fatehpur Sikri was an ancient capitol of India but only for a short period of time. The buildings here are remarkably preserved. There is a fantastic ...
Unatmospheric ghost town
... between Agra and Jaipur is only 5 - 6 hours but I dont like buses really and the ones out here are extra 'special'. Fatehpur Sikri is an abandoned medievil city that has been turned into a rather large tourist center. I thought I would like it ...
We've arrived!!!!
Hello there! :) We've made it to India! Got into Delhi airport just before midnight on Monday and fortunately a nice chap from the hotel we'd booked had come to collect us so we didn't need to worry about facing tuk tuk drivers/bartering etc and ...
Fatehpur Sikri, la ville fantome
Le surnom de Fatehpur Sikri , la ville fantome vient de cette petite annecdote : Akbar le grand (notons que Akbar voulant dire le grand en Arabe, ca fait un peu pléonasme) a décidé de construire une cité parfaite, au milieu du désert, pour en ...
Jama Masjid, Faulty Towers and Maggots
... or Ajays, it normally pays to shop around, but when I arrive in a new town with my backpack, I'm usually too lazy! Fatepur Sikri was one of the dirtiest towns I visited with the least choice of hotels. I always find it amazing how the Indians just ...
Off the tourist track
... saying "Hello" and a horde of little kids running after us. Being so far off the tourist path, this area seems much more "authentic" as a snapshot of rural India, where shopkeepers are eager for us to take their photo and don't demand money for ...
More sightseeing!
Caught the local bus to Fatehpur Sikri this morning for 27 rupees. It's an ancient fortified city about 1 hour form Agra and pretty impressive. My fav thing about it was all the parakeets flying about. There were ...
Let the Tour Begin !
... add a few kilos). Another 'find’ at our Namaste dinner is a white wine named ‘SULA’. A white wine made in India it’s the best I have tasted thus far and I write the name down for future reference. N.B. When I attended Yoga classes ...
Not too many Taj Mahal pics we promise!
... tenacity. In order to avoid choking to death whilst moping around waiting for the Taj to open, we took a bus trip to Fatehpur Sikri about an hour's drive outside Agra. This near ghost town near the Rajastani border is the former imperial capital of ...
Just outside Agra...
A quick entry: Fatehpur Sikri is just outside Agra. It was the Moghul capital in the late 16th century--but only for 14 years, after which was abandoned. It's interesting to wander around the palace, mosques, and ...
Side trip from Agra
There is another UNESCO sight within reach so we decide to see it. Fathepur Sikri is an elaborate sight built by Mughal Emperor Akbar between 1571 and 1584. It was his main palace and actually was the capital of his empire for a period of time. ...
Fatehpur Sikri
... of the cross, as seen from above. It was supposed to be the "perfect city". I would have to agree. I believe Fatehpur Sikri is the coolest place we've been to. It has an extremely remarkable history and is a fine example of ...
The Ghost City
On the way back to Delhi the fog was extremely thick again but we took a diversion to Fatehpur Sikri, which is a deserted city of the Mohgul empire. We had an old guide show us around in the fog but unfortunately the fog could not hide his ...
Fate-a-wha??
... , and little temples. Tiny villiages and tons of construction. Never seen so much exposed rebar in my life. We pull up to Fatehpur Sikri and are transferred to a "governement sponsored tour guide"... take a took took to the top of the hill, go inside ...
Fatehpur Sikri - a desserted castle
This was a short stop on our way from Agra. It was a huge fort area in the middle of no where. The king had to leave the amazing fort because there was a serious water ...
Deserted City
... we left Agra (in the state of Utar Pradesh) for Jaipur (in the state of Rajasthan). On our way, we stopped in Fatehpur Sikri. This city, built in 1571, was deserted fourteen years later in 1585 because of lack of water. Magnificient! Our drive took us ...
On the way to Jaipur
... de passarmos a manha no taj Mahal e no Forte de Agra, arrancamos em direccao a Jaipur no Rajastao. De caminho paramos em Fatehpur Sikri, a apenas 37Km de Agra, para ai visitarmos o complexo real. Esta cidade muralhada foi construida no Sec. XVI e foi a ...
Fatehpur Sikri
... what looked to be a fort both Brian and I were reluctant to even open the door. Thankfully we had stopped in Fatehpur Sikri which was the short lived capital (quoting Lonely Plant guidebook here folks)of the Mughal Empire under Akbar. The short ...
Fatehpur Sikri
On our way to Agra we stopped off in the little "town" of Fatehpur Sikri. It was a temporary capital before Agra was built around 1569 C.E. Now it mainly consists of the palace in which the Maharaja Akbar built and stayed in. Akbar ...
Fatehpur Sikri
... once you've got off - maybe it's the thrill of the escape that does it. Anyway, spent a nice day wandering around Fatehpur Sikri. I drew the line at paying another extortionate 500% mark-up for westerners to enter the royal enclosure, but had a great ...
Fatehpur Sikri - Akbar Loses It
... dancing or love making - hence it is a very pleasurable place, full of discord, of broken orders, unclear heirarchies. Beside the Fatehpur Sikri palace is a very impressive mosque, perhaps the best we have seen in India thus far: The Jama Masjid. The ...