Agra Travel Blogs

'Come to me.'  She speaks to me.  I think I love her. It's the first week in February 2008.  I'm experimenting, pretty much for the first time in travelling alone.  Keeping my own company on The Road.  Preparation?  I'm lying on a bed in a shoe-box room of a hotel in …

If you travel to the Taj Mahal you’ll find that you can only drive or take a taxi to about a mile from the entrance of the outer most wall. Here you will find a parking lot and then you can either walk, pay one of the locals for a ride on a bike, or there’s a city owned electric bus which go…

From Jaiselmer I traveled to Jodhpur which was a very nice trip. The dull desert landscape leaving behind for the mountains. Winding roads which gets narrower and narrower until the road is not much wider than a one persone vehicle. Though it's still super busy and all cars, tru…

After having such a great time in Jaipur, it was time to leave for Agra. This was the last city that we would visit to complete our Golden Triangle trip. It was another 5 hours journey, and man, the road to Agra from Jaipur was a lot worse than the road from Delhi to Jaipur. I was sleeping at the s…

  Chris and I spent a lot of time on the balcony relaxing, writing post cards, or planning our days while sipping chai and ogling the neighborhood . We found India full of intrigue, even at night. As we huddled around a cow chip, burning warm and smoky on our balcony, Chris and I heard the s…

It was our last day in India, but our flight wasn’t until 6pm, so we decided to visit  another sight here in Agra. The official name is Itmad-ud-Daulah’s Tomb, but because it has some similarities to the Taj Mahal (some say it was the inspiration), the locals just call it “Baby Taj. 

We arrived in Agra about 7am, sooner than our tour guide had mentioned. He later told us about why he was hestitant to give estimates of how long it took, because sometimes 100 km can take MANY hours, you just never know what to expect! So it was better to set our expectations low. With th…

So I'm here, sitting in my hotel room in Bangalore, India after just getting back from an AMAZING and ADVENTUROUS day trip up to Delhi and then onto Agra to visit the Taj Mahal. This was a CRAZY last minute decision...how last minute? How about "just going to the airport and buying our plane ticket…

March 3rd 1990.   Agra, The Taj Mahal, and my Bargaining technic. We were all up extra early and had to be out on foot on the way to the Taj Mahal by 6am, and with no breakfast! The temperature was nice, cool and fresh, just right for a brisk mile walk. The need was to be there ready to tak…

The interest in Bhutan was generated after reading an article about Peter Scholl-Latour, a prolific German journalist and author who had travelled to 97% of the world and whose visit to Bhutan had left an extremely lasting impression.   Indeed most materials described Bhutan as the last par…

I had a good breakfast from the rooftop of the Hare Krishna hotel and made my way up to the train station at New Delhi. Had an interesting chat whilst waiting at the platform for the train to Agra! Has anyone else ever noticed how they play the Windows startup and shutdown tunes over the tannoy? Yo…

As we are spending our time in Delhi, it was an early morning and full day to travel to Agra.  We hired a driver which cost $210 USD for the day and included a mini van with 7 passengers.  Our morning began after 6 a.m. as the drive is roughly 5+ hours from Delhi to Agra.  Traffic is…

Cold shower and early start to go see the Taj Mahal, fulfilling one of my dreams. Probably a lot of people say this, but this is true, I don’t think my photos capture atall what it really feels like to be there. In the fresh early morning mist, this stupidly perfect white palace built for love, k…

I wanted to see the Agra fort so a few of us made an effort to get up early this morning so we could squeeze it in before our journey to Bharatpur.  We took Tuk Tuk's and were the first into the Fort.  From the outside it look majestic so I was excited about going inside.  When we we…

4 hours on the train - easy !! Woop woop , parp parp!!! We are off to visit the biggest monument to love in the world yet you find it surrounded by the biggest piles of rubbish in the world. The last ten k or so before we arrive in Agra is taken up with mountains of plastic bottles, bags…