Taj Mahal Hotel Delhi

... house, parliment House and Secretariat Buildings. We travelled on the New Delhi Railway to Fatepur Sikri, Jama masjid, Tomb of salim Chisti, and Panch mahal. Then the main event : Agra Fort and the Taj Mahal. (HUGELY DISSAPOINTING)... sorry but it was !

... for the three nights. Also welcome was the inclusion of a car and driver to Agra the next day and a long awaited trip to the Taj Mahal. I had an early start by my standards these days 8am. And I was still not ready when the driver arrived. We set of ...

... , ktere jsem uspesne obdrzela.Z Delhy jsme pokracovali dal 4 hodinovym vlakem do Agry, kde na nas cekalo to nejlepsi z cele Indie/Taj Mahal.Palacovy komlex ktery bere dech, svoji uzasnou architekturou.Vstup stal silenych 5 US dolaru,ale stalo to za to, ...

A la recherche d'un endroit tranquille, nous nous arrêtons au Taj Mahal Hotel garni de 5 étoiles. Les deux boissons coutent autant que la nuit au guesthouse (400Rs =8sfr). Après un certain temps, on nous fait comprendre que nous ne sommes pas la ...

31st January Agra / Taj Mahal Left Delhi mid-morning for the 4 hour trip to Agra which is south east of the metropolis. We'd booked onto the sleeper trains again, and had to shift a bunch of dozing Indians who were kipping in our bunks. 5 of us ...

... terrorists did not want it to be.  Most reading this probably remember the attacks carried out by these terrorists at the Taj Mahal Hotel on November 28.  The reason they attacked the Taj Hotel is because it is the most expensive hotel in India ...

... main event after all the messing around. We were given an hour and a half, not much in the grand scheme of the day. The Taj Mahal was completed in1653. I heard a rumour that those who had worked on it when it was finished - thousands of people - all ...

... served such delicacy's as ''pasta with a cheese slice''.  We took a photo for Marzio the food critics enjoyment. The ''Taj Mahal'' itself was absolutely stunning and felt thousands of miles away from chaotic India.  The sun, at its peak bounced ...

... ; She is staying the night in Agra whereas I was just spending the day there to see the main sights of the Taj Mahal and Agra Fort before heading back to Delhi later in the afternoon - there isn't much else to see in the city, and it is pretty polluted, ...

... fort and palace was begun by Akbar between 1565 and 1573, with further additions by his grandson, Shah Jahan, (he of Taj Mahal fame), with barracks added in the 19th Century by the British.  Inside the formidible walls, 20m high and 2.5km in ...

... was eventually attacked and plundered by the British in 1857. The next visit on the itinerary was Agra and the famous Taj Mahal, undoubtedly the zenith of Mughal architecture.  We caught India’s premier train, the Shatabdi Express at 6.00am ...

... do a MRI. Fun I'll leave that for another day.  The next morning we were up at 4:30 to catch a train to Agra, where the Taj Mahal is. We hired a rickshaw for the day who took us around Agra. We saw the old town and very old buildings and temples. We ...

Got the brilliant idea to see the Taj Mahal and continue on to New Delhi the same day.  This idea came to me as the train from Jaipur arrived in Agra at 10:30 in the morning.Quickly arranged to have my own auto-rickshaw driver for the day(less than ...

... 5 am we all shared a couple of auto-rickshaws through the dark streets of Agra to a small café called 'Joney's’ near the Taj Mahal where we all had his speciality banana lassi’s and cheese and tomato toasties. We headed to the nearest gate of ...

... morning but the traffic in India is a complete chaos so the trip took . After visiting few places and checking in at the hotel we headed to Taj Mahal. We had been discussing what our reactions would be since we had seen so many pictures of it and so on. ...

... the over crowed bus stations, and being gravely overwhelmed by the poor and poverty, we traveled our way to our first remote destination, the Taj Mahal!! It was very hot and humid this day, so we had to move rather quickly. You first walk through the main ...

... just enough to go/come back and eat something. I saved their lifes and lent them the necessary money for the entrance.   The Taj Mahal is really amazing. Huge monument, build around 1750, used 20000 people and was build in 20 years. It was built by ...

... up at about 10:00 a.m., and he will take us to the places in Delhi we want to see and then drive us to Agra (where the Taj Mahal is). We hope to arrive by sunset (although we haven't actually SEEN the sun since our arrival in India!) so we can have a ...

... of Agra, but take an early taxi from Delhi, see the Taj and get yourself back to (ugly) Delhi. But was it all worth it? Absolutely! The Taj Mahal is definitely one of the most beautiful pieces of architecture we have ever seen. Even Ivo got goose bumps ...

... you’d think I’m crazy. But, I'm okay with that. Rajinder and I set out the next day to see the Taj Mahal, a nine hour round trip from Delhi. A few quick things about Rajinder is that he lives in a tent and has one pair of shoes, two pairs of ...

... expectations.  The building itself is flanked by 2 mosques on either side, which are large but still small compared to the Taj Mahal. There is a reflecting pool that runs the length of the enclosure, from the red gates to the Taj.  As the sun ...