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Agra Slideshow
Agra
Travel Blogs from Agra, India
31st january agra / taj mahal left delhi ...
This is a top pick! ... footstuff. Strange being in the middle of such a big city with lots of wild animals roaming around. Uneventful journey. Arrived Agra late afternoon and took a couple of cylce rickyshaws the 7 KM(!) to the Taj Ganj area, past the ubiquitous screaming ...
Rickshaw Demolition...
This is a top pick! ... end of a nine day festival so saw this celebrated all along the way, very different and a welcome change - parts of rural India that we hadn't seen so closely. Agra is teeming of course! and had two crashes in our rickshaw on the way!!hehehe ...
The tear drop on the face of eternity...
This is a top pick! ... it has to be the dirtiest place we have been in India kind of like - a open sewer surrounding the Taj, surprise surprise India has a monument of significant apeal and they all surround it and destroy the apeal of staying in the area for any length of ...
Agraagraagraagraagraagraagra i woke up ...
This is a top pick! ... the Taj, along the fountains, and gardens, then entering inside the building. Because of the reports of the deliberate food poisoning around Agra, (mainly in hostels) I chose to eat at a local stall, where I felt it would be safer to eat. I ate fried ...
Cows, Monkeys and Pigs
This is a top pick! ... cycle rickshaw drivers wouldn' let me walk in peace. 2 of them literally followed me for 30 minutes, although I ignored them completely. Agra Fort (1565) was not that different from the Red Fort in Delhi. It was a bit older, since Agra was the Mughal ...
Enter the Taj
This is a top pick! 
The Taj!
... built in white marble with stone inlay, and is in some ways even more intricate than the famous Taj. On our way to Agra yesterday, we visited Fatepur Sikhri, which was the capital of the Mughal empire for a short time. The buildings and mosque there ...
Bring on the Taj Mahal
... any indication you have arrived at your stop. No voice over a speaker to inform you, you've arrived. Anyway, we were still in Agra.....just a bit further away. Got a rickshaw into an area very close to the Taj Mahal, Taj Ganj. The hostel we stayed at had ...
Up t' north
Hello again. I am safe and well in Agra. I caught the train at 7.10 last night and arrived here at about 5.30 this evening. I would not advise anybody to sit on a train that long!! My arse cheeks are red raw, it is most unpleasant. Was sitting with a ...
Agra to Jaipur
... many of the main roads) are being restored in time for the Commonwealth Games next year (2010). So if you are planning to visit India wait until after the games. It was a long trip to Jaipur. When we arrived we went to our Hotel (Mandawa Haveli) which ...
I' m in the army now........
... a reception committee for a Parachute Regiment reunion on the platform - I had to laugh - what would they be thinking white tourist helped off train by group of army guys.... As Claire said when I texted her about this: only in india only in ...
Daytrip
Rather than staying in Agra town we decided to take a daytrip to Agra, so we left early in the morning in a second class seat - breakfast on the train, and were the first off and into the station where we aquired ourselves a driver and a guide for the ...
Agra
... and promised to send them copies. Down to my last film so hope it lasts the afternoon. Almost forgot; it's Holi now - "India's colour-doused version of April Fool's" as the guide book describes it. Apparently everyone gets drunk and throws paint over ...
Making Merry in Agra & Delhi
... destination, Delhi's famous Red Fort, one of Shah Jahan's many architectural (and tourist-magnet) gifts to India (To clarify, Shah Jahan constructed the Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, Red Fort, and Jama Masjid - the largest mosque in India, among other things). ...
The sublime Taj Mahal
... 1980 bit confusing. K19 is marked as Taj Mahal. But it probably is Sikandra Tomb visited earlier in day on way to Agra. Ed Waters in foreground. 02 K20 The immortal majestic Taj Mahal. Art Rom... in foreground. Only this one picture on this ...
Das Taj Mahal
... dann wieder auf den Weg zum Red Fort machten, das allein durch seine immense Groesse Gaensehaut garantierte. Meine Zeit in Agra war nun offiziell abgelaufen, da mein Zug um 19:30 die Bahnstation verlassen sollte. Mein puenktliches Eintreffen war aber ...
Taj- tastic
... of the worst cities we have seen so far. The state of Uttar Pradesh is one of the most badly run states in India. Powercuts, corrupt politicians and police and serious crime are only some of the problems this state has. All the men in Uttar Pradesh ...
To the Taj: Agra.
... while giving birth to their 14th child. After nearly 25 years of construction, it was completed in 1653. Since arriving in India, I've noticed that everything is vegetarian. Simply no meat is available here. The primary problem with traveling here is ...
Agra
... unreal, then ungraspable and untouchable. Again, I'll spare the lugubrious verse and just say that it is spectacular. If you are in India and your train happens by it, you've got to stop. The Red Fort at Agra is also monumental. Shah Jahan, builder ...
How much?
... than this crap below, which I tend to agree with! ***************************************** Update - March 2008 **************************************** And so to Agra, 3 hours from Delhi by train. The reason for coming here was, of course, to see ...
Taj Mahal
... caused problems for both me and Dan soon after. We're finding that it's hard to win the train game in India. The express train arrived in Agra a mere two hours after leaving Delhi, and we were snapped up by a taxi driver the second our feet hit the Agra ...
Day 63 - The Taj Mahal Experience
... white compact sedan. His given name was Nagender but we simply called him Nog. The road to Agra provided our first glimpse into rural India as we drove long stretches with sparse dessert scenery between small highway side shops, shacks and tourist ...
The Taj
... locals and an all round good vibe. I think Agra was infrastructually speaking one of the best cities I went to in all my time in India. To top it off was the distant view of Taj albiet clouded in a haze of pollution, it was just as the sun was setting ...
A Teardrop on the face of Eternity, or whatever
... to every Sci-Fi movie where a UFO hovers ominously over it. The Taj is undoubtedly the most famous building in India, and in close competition with, say, the Eifel Tower for the international recognition. And everyone, I mean everyone, in ...
Glenn Turns 30 At The Taj
... all very nice though and were really interested in us, Australia (and of course cricket!). We discussed the rest of our trip in India and they gave us plenty of tips on where to go. We arrived in Agra and were besieged by rickshaw drivers again. This ...
Beautiful Rajasthan
... no one dropping out - so we have to go on to agra then re-trace our steps back through Japiur before flying back to Mumbai! Agra An early start on saturday to get the 6am train to Agra which took us 4 hours. We had heard from people previously that there ...
Sunrise at the Taj Mahal
It was now off to the most famous monument in India, the ultimate tribute to love; the Taj Mahal. Construction on the Taj Mahal began in 1631 by Shah Jahan as a memorial to his second wife Mumtaz Mahal who died giving birth to their 14th child. Not ...
Taj Mahavellous
... for the rest of Agra, it’s a noisy, horrible little town and we’re beginning to look forward to a hopefully quieter South of India in a few weeks. BTW – how easy do you think it is to buy a sim card in India? All you need is a ...
