Madhya Pradesh Vacations, Madhya Pradesh Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

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 the hazy daylight after the sun rose, we could see the road we were travelling, and people along the road. There were women carryinging water vases on their head walking in the field, there were kids ...

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 take photographs of the Taj with the dawn light behind the monument. When we arrived it was to find there were heaps of people already there, waiting for the dawn light, still it was no problem as ther...

  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 soft jingle of rhythmic bells on the street below. Camels, laden with cargo, lapped water from a trough next door, just below our nest, while their drivers checked-in at a government office across th...

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 were buying our tickets an old man approached us and wanted to be our guide, I didn't want a guide I wanted to go around at my own pace and I had my guide book to help me, the old man was not happy we...