Mansingh Palace

... piece of cotton to the marble filigree windows around his tomb and makes a wish of ones own.   When we return to the Mansingh Palace Hotel - the fanciest Hotel we will be staying in all holiday, we are ready for a sit by the pool.  One ...

... forgot it in the safe tour with a reliable guide. Our hotel, which was close to the restaurant, was Mansignh Palace with 5 star rating. The hotel was good with a clean room, a swimming pool, a good restaurant, and some ...

... again, we travelled from Agra to Jaipur today and stopped to look at Fatehpur Sikri (this included a ruined city, abandoned city palace and mosque). Apparently this was a city that was abandoned due to lack of water and political reason by the Mughals. ...

... marble octagonal tower. Here, Shah Jahan ended his days, imprisoned by his son. His view across the Yamina River is of his monument to love - the Taj Mahal. We spent the night 23 miles away in Agra, at the Mughal-inspired hotel - The Mansigh Palace. ...

... ;I was supposed to pay a large tip for them. Anyway, it was dark outside when we left there for our hotel, Hotel Mansingh. Our hotel was so far from Pink City, the old part of Jaipur, that I couldn't go ...

... rather impressive fort, built on a hill with elephant rides up to the main fort itself (we walked). Amber Fort was built by Raja ManSingh (that probably means as much to you as it does to me) who rule over the Mughals (I think). That evening we got ...

... to the right of the stairway steps is the Sila Devi temple was where the Rajput Maharajas offered worship, starting with Maharaja Mansingh in the 16th century till the 1980s, when the animal sacrifice ritual (sacrifice of a buffalo) practiced by the ...

... you to the imposing Amber Fort, ancient capital of Rajasthan. The fort was begun in the 17th century by Maharaja Mansingh, Emperor Akbar's most successful general. Perched atop the Aravalli hills overlooking the Moat Lake, the fort's fortified battlements ...

... a sundial and a few structures for measuring the angles of various constellations in the sky. Our next halt was supposed to be Sawai Mansingh Museum. But we skipped it because we were getting late. We left the pink city and proceeded to Amber fort. The ...

... The park covers a huge area of around 1,334 sq km along with two adjoining sanctuaries the Kaila Devi sanctuary and the Mansingh sanctuary. The park nestles between the Aravali and the Vindhya mountains and it is also close to the Thar desert. Our ...

Hello everyone, Well we finally arrived in Agra after a long trip from Delhi. The roads weren't too bad but at times the traffic was a little thick. Our hotel is a nice oasis in the midst of a busy city but it does seem to cater mostly for foreign ...

Today was the day to meet the pride of India, the Taj Mahal. Our guide in Agra was a cool free lancer (like they all have claimed to be so far.. also single and with no time for women anyway... no way!!), a very nice and funny guy. We drove somewhat from ...

We arrived in Agra just after sunset on the night of the Dusshera festival - a celebration of good over evil.  This is a precurser to the Dawili festival of lights that happens in early November.  The highlight of Dusshera are these huge paper ...

Waking up in the early hours to watch the sunrise at the Taj Mahal and then a 4 hour drive back to stay in the YMCA in New Dehli As you all by now have found out at 11:14 pm UK time we finally beat the horrendous traffic of Agra, turned a corner and came ...

The only trouble with through trains that don't have any signs or announcements is that you've no idea where you are and when you are arriving. I thought that we might make up one hour of the three that we were late, but an hour after scheduled arrival ...

A chilly dawn start saw us strolling through the Babur Gardens towards the Tah Mahal with our guide Sharma, passing monkeys, street dogs and joggers. There was already a queue, one side for women and the other for guys and a strict security ...