Agra

Touching Taj

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October 30th 2008
The following etappe of our journey we treated ourselves and took a driver from Delhi to Agra, where the Taj Mahal is situated. This was extremely comfortable and nice after the Varanasi shakedown and being ill. Agra itself is a big city but apparently not worth visiting apart from the Taj (we did not verify this but believed all our Indian friends and the guidebooks). Of course the area around th ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more