Author Ian Parker! Saturday 29/3/08 - Overnight sleeper (if you can call it that!) train to Agra.... Carried the bags over the bridge to the appropriate platform, and then walked what seemed miles (in the blazing sun) to the place where our 'sleeper carriage' was due to stop. At this point Sue decided that she wasn't getting enough attention, an...

The Taj Mahal lies in Agra some 180km southwest of Delhi. We were up before the sun and reminded that it is indeed winter. Here in the north the mornings and evenings are downright cold. It was a perfect day for a visit. The weather was clear and as Gupta our driver said, not too hot and not too cold. The 7th Wonder of the World does not fail to...

Well, day two in Agra. Relatively uneventful- if you can call anything that around here. My cold has turned in to nothing more than an aggressive tiring cough... So today I thought #1, I'd get a ticket out of here to Varanasi, so I could start planning the rest... know what? There is a guy in the corner singing passeges of the Koran at the top o...

In the name of love What more in the name of love In the name of love What more in the name of love How about only 13 children??? Agra is know for the great Taj Mahal, the beautiful mausoleum built of marble and in memory of Jahan's 2nd wife who died giving birth to their 14th child in 1631. I say she deserved the giant mausoleum- although I'm s...

6-6-2007 Agra and the Taj Mahal So we left at 9am with our favorite driver, Anil. He is the best, not only does he speak fluent English but he really wants you to have a good time and its very genuine which is more than what I can say about most of the people around here. We headed out of the city and on our way I took several pictures that you ...

Ahoy there! We arrived in Agra with grave warnings from our driver to be careful. Sometimes I wonder if his warnings were really just used to increase our reliance on him - but we heeded the warnings anyway and stuck close to our hotel - which wasn't hard. Agra does not have a lot to offer other than the Taj Mahal. The Taj Mahal was, however, am...

[written jan. 19, 2002] hello y'all... so i'm in agra...a city which is all too aware of itself...there are signs everywhere proclaiming that this restaurant or that hotel was mentioned in the lonely planet guidebook. in delhi nothing felt familiar in a western sense...i just had supper in a restaurant that could have been anywhere in canada (it...

Agra holds some of the most spectacular monuments in India. Keep Agra your last stop...since you probably won't see anything better! Our sight-seeing program in Agra was: Dec 6: Taj Mahal; Agra Fort Dec 7: Baby Taj; Akbar's Tomb Dec 8: Radha Soami's Samadhi; Fathepur Sikri Most of them were constructed by the Mughals. And these Muslim emperors w...

Was woken up at about 3am by what sounded like shoveling of something like sand outside. I went back to sleep again and got up at 5.15am after my alarm had gone off 10 minutes before. This morning I have a train at 6.15am to Agra - home of what some say is the most beautiful building in the world - the Taj Mahal. I checked out of the hotel and w...

Cricket in India - a weird kind of reality - the concept of the game's the same, but everything else is completely different. I've been lucky enough to see cricket in various places round the world, but nothing can possibly prepare you for a game in India. There's the security - 4 different searches by armed policeman before you actually get in ...