Tourist Rest House, Agra
January 05, 2006
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We visited Agra twice and both times we stayed at the Tourist Rest House. Both times our room was reasonably clean and more or less quiet. The rooms are set around a pleasant courtyard where you can get food. …
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Agra re-visited – Dodging Cows, People and Potholes to see The Taj Mahal Gleam in the Morning Light
January 05, 2006
At this point, we headed back to Agra. We wanted to use our train pass, but the only class available on the overnight train was the Sleeper class, and we didn’t really want to rough it that much.…
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Agra – More than just the Taj Mahal: Fatehpur Sikri, Jama Masjid, Baby Taj & Agra Fort
December 23, 2005
Fatehpur Sikri - The Panch Mahal. The bottom floor has 176 intricately carved columns. The following day, we hired a taxi for the day. First we headed to Fatehpur Sikri, a couple of hours outside of Agra. …
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Debating Which is Faster-walking or an Indian Train-and Visiting Agra, home of the Taj Mahal
December 22, 2005
'... even the most jaded of globe-trotters often find themselves smiling in wonder as they behold the Taj'. - Let's Go We’ll we showed up at the train station in Amritsar at 3:30PM for our 4:10PM train to Agra. Make that our 5:00 train… Actually 6:
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Debating Which is Faster-walking or an Indian Train-and Visiting Agra, home of the Taj Mahal
December 22, 2005
'... even the most jaded of globe-trotters often find themselves smiling in wonder as they behold the Taj'. - Let's Go We’ll we showed up at the train station in Amritsar at 3:30PM for our 4:10PM train to Agra. Make that our 5:00 train… Actually 6:
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