Uttar Pradesh · 3 Days
Agra — Taj Mahal & Fatehpur Sikri
Agra and its Mughal country over two nights — the Taj at both sunrise and sunset, Agra Fort, and Akbar's abandoned capital at Fatehpur Sikri.
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3 Days, In Full
Agra has more than the one monument, and this gives it two full days. The Taj at sunrise, Agra Fort, then a day out to Fatehpur Sikri, the red sandstone capital Akbar built and abandoned. Back in Agra, Itimad-ud-Daulah and then the Taj again at sunset, seen across the river from Mehtab Bagh. Two nights in Agra. It suits photographers, Mughal-history readers, and anyone who felt a day trip was not enough.
Delhi → Agra
Delhi to Agra — The Yamuna Expressway
The drive to Agra runs about 165 kilometres down the Yamuna Expressway and takes three to three and a half hours. It is flat, fast and unremarkable, which is the point — it replaced a full day on the old road. You reach Agra by early afternoon. The rest of the day is Agra Fort, in the long light, with the Taj Mahal visible downriver from its marble balconies — a first sight of it before tomorrow's sunrise.
Agra
Agra — The Taj at Sunrise, then Agra Fort
The gates open at first light, and the first hour is the coolest, the quietest and the best for photographs, as the marble shifts from grey to pink to white. A private guide handles the tickets and the queue. Back to the hotel for breakfast. The rest of the morning is Agra Fort, Akbar's red sandstone citadel, including the rooms where Aurangzeb held his father prisoner within sight of the Taj. The Taj is closed on Fridays.
Agra
Agra — Fatehpur Sikri & the Baby Taj
A morning drive out to Fatehpur Sikri, Akbar's capital of 1571, abandoned within twenty years and almost untouched since. The palaces, the great mosque and the fifty-four-metre Buland Darwaza all stand complete. Back in Agra, the afternoon is Itimad-ud-Daulah, the small marble tomb on the river that people call the Baby Taj, and then Mehtab Bagh across the water for the Taj at sunset, framed at the end of the garden with no crowds.
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