The Taj

October 4th 2007
We left Delhi by public bus and endured 6hrs of bad roads and dusty air before arriving in Agra that night. We took a rickshaw to Taj Ganj, an area only about 2 minutes from the Taj Mahal itself and had no trouble finding a decent hotel, with an impressive view of the Taj from it's rooftop terrace. Agra, we had been warned, is not a town worth sticking around in and we soon realised that the s ... 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

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Lisa S.

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OK, so we have booked and paid for the Round-The-World tickets and our first stop is Delhi, India. We're going to head north to Uttaranchal before embarking on the "golden triangle" of Delhi/Jaipur & Agra. Then it's east through Varanasi (with a possible detour up to Nepal...??) to Kolkata. Than North again to Darjeerling and back south through the Sunderbans and Orissa. Finally we'll head west to Goa, via Hampi, and fly onwards out of Mumbai.................. From there the plan is to take in a lot of SE.Asia (most especially The Philippines & Borneo!) but where we'll actually end up is ... full info

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