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... its fame from the Potsdam Conference of the World War II allies Winston Churchill, Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin in 1945. The Taj Mahal Palace & Tower in Mumbai is one of India's most famous and historic hotels because of its association with the Indian ...
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A Travel Blog entry by ospry from Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra, India
... ; We visited the Gateway to India at the waterfront. It was close to the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel were terrorists attacked a couple of years ago. Little kids were all about us trying to hawk stuff. Most of us ...
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Dehli Taj Mahal Palace
A Travel Blog entry by sonja_and_david from Dehli, Rājasthān, India
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 ...
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State of Uttar Pradesh
A Travel Blog entry by annawazhere from Agra (Taj Mahal), India
... wasn't actually driving, just sitting in the front seat giving directions and talking on his mobile. We didn't know how far our hotel was from the Taj Mahal so agreed to pay 300 rupees to go there and back (we only had the afternoon as the Taj is closed ...
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Fun in the countryside
A Travel Blog entry by gilesandnikki from Ranthambore, Keoladeo and The Taj Mahal, India
... , home to the Taj, was. We therefore booked a comfy car and took the short drive into Agra, which was, a sh!t hole. However, the Taj Mahal did not disappoint at all and must rank as one of the most stunning man made creations on the planet (2nd only to ...
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The Taj Mahal (among other things)
A Travel Blog entry by owain from Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
... had anticipated. I hailed a rickshaw and breathed a sigh of relief as the driver silently agreed to take me to my hotel - the Sai Palace Hotel. According to my guidebook, Agra has "little to offer" apart from the Taj Mahal, but having walked around for a ...
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Agra and the Taj Mahal
A Travel Blog entry by juanitobosque from Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
... 12th installment-Agra and the Taj Mahal Promptly at 6 AM Rampal appeared that the front door of our hotel and we took off to see the famous Taj Mahal. Cars are not allowed near the Taj, so about 1 km before you arrive at the site, ...
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Sunrise at the Taj Mahal
A Travel Blog entry by filly from Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
There isn't much reason to spend time in Agra except to see the Taj Mahal. We were quite luck to find a really cool Rickshaw driver (a rather he found us) when we arrived and he took us for a tour the first day. His name was Wassem and he really enhanced ...
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Ah, Taj Mahal quand je te tiens!
A Travel Blog entry by stephetvince from Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
... plutôt les oiseaux qui chantent que l'on entend ici. Ce mausolé, premier mausolé de ce style rappelle effectivement le Taj Mahal que l'onn vient de voir. Le style moghol est clairement reconnaissable dans cette architecture-ci également. Par contre ...
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Weve seen the Taj Mahal!!!!
A Travel Blog entry by laurabiggs from Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
... her so much. That his son, imprisoned his father when he lost a battle. But let him have the temple that overlooked the Taj Mahal. The rooms were lovely, you could really imagine what they were like, perfumed water, mirages, silk curtains, oil lamps, ...
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True love- Taj Mahal
A Travel Blog entry by whereugoing from Agra, India
... fort and the palace was started by Emperor Akbar in 1565. Additions were made mostly by his grandson Shah Jahan (architect of Taj Mahal ) using his favourite building material white marble. Akbar primarily made it as a military structure, but Shah Jahan ...
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Taj Mahal plus
A Travel Blog entry by ironinkent from Agra, India
... 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 ...
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The Stunning Taj Mahal
A Travel Blog entry by suenson_taylors from Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
... , I have not forgotten, O beloved." Rudyard Kipling called it “the embodiment of all things pure.” The Taj-i-Mahal (the Crown of the Palace) was started in 1632, taking 22,000 workers 22 years to complete. It core was made of red sandstone ...
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THE TAJ MAHAL, A SCATTERING AND A HINDU WEDDING
A Travel Blog entry by kmac55 from Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
... . Good sense took over and I was returned to my hotel, as the next day, after another visit with Sushant to the Taj Mahal and a second possible spreading in Agra, Moolchand would be accompanying me on the five hour or so drive to ...
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Taj Mahal in Agra (not NiagAra)!
A Travel Blog entry by lweinreich from Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
... . Everyone is also your friend unless you don't buy something or if you take too long at an awesome, historic site like the Taj Mahal. We continually asked for more time, but as it turns out we should have told them to buzz off and handled ...
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Taj Mahal & Fatipur Sikri
A Travel Blog entry by radcliffe-riley from Agra, India
... imprisoned by his son in the final years before his death. The window look down the Jumana River to the Taj Mahal. We head back to the hotel for a lazy day by the pool, catching up on our rest, we then get a taxi with a ...
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Taj Mahal with some new friends....
A Travel Blog entry by nathanael from Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
... then went to sleep, next morning we meet this nice Aussie, Stuart. We asked if he wanted to join us to Fathenphur Sikri, mostly 'cuz Taj Mahal is close on Fridays. We walked past the train station to buy tickets fro Agra, of course I was going to be stuck ...
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Agra Fort and Taj Mahal
A Travel Blog entry by stuckinindia from Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
... : It felt so surreal to be at the Taj. I felt like in all those famous pictures, in all those books I had seen the Taj Mahal, but I almost couldn't believe I was actually there. I can really see why it is one of the wonders of the world. ...
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31st january agra / taj mahal left delhi ...
A Travel Blog entry by gdrenfrew from Agra, India
... they would levy a tax on all the wealthy tourists who visit: it now costs a monstrous 960Rs for any foreign visitors to enter the Taj Mahal. I was fizzing more than i was with all the dual prices they had in Egypt. That's almost 20US dollars. It wouldn't ...
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Visit to the Taj Mahal
A Travel Blog entry by martysb from Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
... told the story and a replica of the Taj Mahal. What I learned is that the Taj Mahal is really a tragedy. The Taj Mahal, (Crown Palace) is a mausoleum built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan as a tribute to his third wife - Empress Muntaz Mahal - who ...
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