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Taj Mahal and Fatehpur Sikri

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October 21st 2017
Today is an early start for the Taj I wake at 5am and put the a/c on in the room to cool it down a bit. The machine is very noisy and as I open the curtains to look onto our "garden" view I see that i have woken up the hotel donkey and he doesn't look to pleased. We are outside waiting for the guide at 6.30am and he arrives takes us on a moto/rickshaw to the entrance of the Taj which is really ... 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