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Taj Mahal - Larger than life.
(Sep 15 '07)
From the onset this was one of the attractions that we really wanted to
see. The drive from Delhi is long, 4 hours, we started at 6am. The day was extremely hot, but luckily a weekday, so not as much ...
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Agra: Taj Mahal, Agra Fort
(Oct 14 '07)
October 14, 2007 / Delhi – Agra
We were picked up at 5am to go to the train station for the early morning super fast air-conditioned train to Agra. The 2 hour train ride was uneventful. We ...
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Mausoleum of Love
(Jan 22 '08)
Nik and I arrived at the Hotel Host and were shown our room that
was pretty bad with stained sheets and no light in the bathroom. We
asked for another room which was next door to the original one ...
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All I can say about Agra is that it is basically a nothing town. Really! It is not charming or nice. Actually it is the epitomy of dull...except for the Taj Mahal. ...
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Meeting Ian at Taj Mahal
(Sep 13 '06)
"And along came Ian, what a treat, he had dressed up for he occasion, a bit like when i met him really"
Our wake up came at 6am. We had been told sunrise was 6.21am. We opened our drapes and the door ...
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Agra: Well worth the effort
(Feb 16 '07)
On our way to Agra, Uttar Pradesh, we stopped at the abandoned hilltop city of Fatehpur Sikri. Arthur Erickson, the architect of Simon Fraser University, had visited this sight prior to designing our ...
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Delhi, India - Chaos Rules
(Mar 16 '08)
In the Times of India, I spotted a disturbing article. It was about a gang of kidney harvesters who’d been arrested. And they hadn’t been collecting ingredients for chili-con-carne either. Another ...
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After a restless night on the overnight sleeper train with many visits to the bathroom, Brad and I felt frizzled and tired arriving into Agra. Agra is a large industrial town that ...
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Agra, just for the Taj really
(Aug 01 '07)
We arrived in Agra at 8.45, and immediately got ourselves a reservation on the waiting list for the night train to Varanasi. After that, it was time to meet the rickshaw drivers.
I had read that ...
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Turkey, the Taj and Street Fighting
(Nov 24 '07)
To those of you who've been following my travels, sorry about getting behind with my entries. As you probably know, this was written a few weeks after I was actually in Agra.
As some of you may ...
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