Yamuna View

... beautiful domes. Also visit the famous Agra fort - the red sandstone building built by Emperor Shah Jahan on the banks of River Yamuna. Also view the famous Sikandra - the tomb of Akbar, and the Itmad-Ud-Daullah's tomb. Shop at the local markets of Agra in ...

... Shah Jahan. It's set upon a marble and red sandstone platform that is backed on one side by cliffs that fall into the Yamuna River. This gives the Taj the appearance that it is floating on the clouds behind it. It was fantastic and definitely makes the 4 ...

... group stayed at a lower hotel right on the river and the rest of us continued another kilometer up the hill to the Ganga Yamuna Hotel with its yellow sign greeting "Landour Language School's Foreign Students." We were greeted by the best chai I have had ...

... a sacred fire circle to finish. Another day we went to the Main Bizarre street to meet Beccles and Tim and Yamuna to watch the start of the colourful Ladakh Summer Festival which begins with a parade through town that ends at the ...

... about the tour and went back into the hotel to have a good night sleep. Silence in the hotel premises seamed like a canvas where yamuna started to paint with a melody and I fell asleep. Next Morning, “it’s 5:30, get up and ready quickly ...

... the temple there is small hot water pond where everyone has bath.the temple is just by side of the river yamuna and from temple one can get clear view of glacier feeding the river   so we had bath in the hot water pond after darshan in the ...

... was the magnificent Taj Mahal.  The setting sun was turning the amazing structure a pinky hue. I wandered along the banks of the Yamuna, which was a smelly, filthy mess, to a spot where I could take a photo of both the setting sun and the Taj. The ...

... of Shah Jahan's life.  Imprisoned by his son, Aurangzeb, his confinement allowed him a lovely view of the Mahal across the river Yamuna.  So, they afforded him this much at least.  But it really must've been ...

... a rather large courtyard with a black marble on it. This is the throne for the king. this throne offers good view of Taj Mahal and Yamuna River. Beside the throne was a building seemed to used for entertaining guests. The view from this courtyard was not ...

... girl back at Rana Chatti, a smaller town with a few hotels. The hotel, The Krishna Lok, is set above the Yamuna river - across from three of the tallest waterfalls I've ever seen. At the risk of generalizing and negating some absolutely brilliantly ...

... left side of the princess but to have a monument made of black marble, and two monuments to the past two bridges over the Yamuna river, wanted to merge with. Cihan Shah's third son, but the Evrengzib "My father felt great love for my mother. This should ...

... we had left of the day. Instead, we hired a cycle-rickshaw to take us to the opposite side of the Yamuna River from where the Taj sits, as the view across the water is supposed to be one of the better ways to glimpse the beautiful marble building. On the ...

... the holiest of holy bathing time, when the mythical Saraswati River comes to life, joining the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna, a triumvirate of river goddesses who hold the key to life's elixir. This is the largest congregation of people on the ...

... ). We did breakdown and take one rickshaw driver up on an offer to ferry us around the east and north banks of the Yamuna to view various other sites and monuments, including Itimad-Ud-Daulah (aka `Baby Taj`) and Mehtab Bagh (a park directly across from ...

... way to the hotel...it was a tease for what was to come. Our first stop on our mini tour was across the Yamuna river to get the back view of the Taj Mahal. Wow! What a magnificent piece of beauty, grandiose, but not flashy like the gold of the Golden ...

... Café to do some important emails and upload another blog entry). The Fort is a huge, imposing red sandstone structure, perched above the Yamuna River to the north west of the Taj Mahal. It is where the Shahjahan spent the last eight years of his life, ...

... a congested, polluted and unattractive city except for the Taj Mahal which rises above its shabby neighbourhood, along the banks of the Yamuna River, and only two kilometres away from the Agra fort; but we had the Taj Mahal as our sole tourist destination ...

... despite a slight camera panic, we were soon inside exploring. Even more impressive than the Red Fort, Agra Fort lies peacefully on the Yamuna river, boasting views over to the Taj, and is filled with peaceful courtyards. As it was the end of the day we ...