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.  There is internet access available as well. Both times our

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. Instead we hired a driver, and it was one of the scariest drives of our life.

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.  It’s  a silent hilltop city of abandoned palaces and gorgeous c

'… 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…  Ac

'… 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…  Ac