Agra is a city in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state. It's home to the iconic Taj Mahal, a mausoleum built for the Mughal ruler Shah Jahan’s wife, Mumtaz Mahal (who died in childbirth in 1631). The imposing main building features a massive dome and intricately carved white marble inlaid with precious stones. This is set behind a reflecting pool inside a courtyard defined by 4 minarets wiki .
The Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the south bank of the Yamuna river in the Indian city of Agra. It was commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan, to house the tomb of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal.
Visited Agra in month of Sep , it was a great experience. Started my Journey from New Delhi Railway Station. Find difficulty to get train as this is my first time to travel long distance via train. There are 16 platforms at New Delhi railway station so easy way is Book ticket online or serach google for trains and get the train name and number towards Agra Cannt and locate the train and you will easily come to know the platform number for that train.
After lots of time wastage and enquiry we luckly get Kerala Express 12626 towards Thiruvananthapuram Central . We both were travling with general ticket and dont know what to do how to get seat. All scared we entered into train. We entered by S11 and someone inside the train told that go and talk to TC and he will take 100 rs each and will assign you a seat if available. We started looking for him and reached at S1 but no one is helping to assign seat all are saying wait we are coming to your seat. Finally a Turban TC told us to seat on seat no 36 and 37 of s6 box. We reached there are ask for our seat , finally that was moment of victory we got the seat. We open up water bottle and ha some water then was felling relax.
Now we started looking for TC to came to our seat and what amount of money he will ask for ?. The wait is over he came and ask for 100Rs each , I gave him totally 100 and said this is enough sir as he is polite but Corrupt accepted the money and write seat number on back of our ticket. We were very happy as we both were visiting TAJ for 1st time. Many station like Faridabad , Mathura etc came in between all places were new and enjoy each and every part of journey and finally train is about to reach at Agra Cannt.
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| [Taj Clicked by me] |
The Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the south bank of the Yamuna river in the Indian city of Agra. It was commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan, to house the tomb of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal.
Visited Agra in month of Sep , it was a great experience. Started my Journey from New Delhi Railway Station. Find difficulty to get train as this is my first time to travel long distance via train. There are 16 platforms at New Delhi railway station so easy way is Book ticket online or serach google for trains and get the train name and number towards Agra Cannt and locate the train and you will easily come to know the platform number for that train.
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| Agra Cantt Railway Station |
Now we started looking for TC to came to our seat and what amount of money he will ask for ?. The wait is over he came and ask for 100Rs each , I gave him totally 100 and said this is enough sir as he is polite but Corrupt accepted the money and write seat number on back of our ticket. We were very happy as we both were visiting TAJ for 1st time. Many station like Faridabad , Mathura etc came in between all places were new and enjoy each and every part of journey and finally train is about to reach at Agra Cannt.
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| On the way to Agra |
When train stopped at Agra Cantt station we were very happy that we finally reached. We came out of station and took a auto-rickshaw from railway station worth Rs 60 and went to Hotel that was already booked by us. After checked in the room was beautiful and all good . We took some rest.
Then we made a plan to visit Taj Mahal at evening. A wonderful thing was this Taj Mahal is quite near by hotel. It was hardly 5 minutes far from hotel. On way to Taj Mahal, there was a man asking to buy tissue paper to wear on top of shoes, we don't know why he was asking to buy those. He was selling them at Rs 10 only. We didn't buy that tissue papers at that time. Finally we reach near entry gate for Taj Mahal. Fortunately one of us have aadhar card to buy entry tickets. Without aadhar card proof we don't buy entry tickets. After buying a ticket we reach inside Taj Mahal after all security checks. A beautiful buildings was in front of me. We start taking pictures and finally after entering a gate we saw a beautiful mausoleum in front of us.
Said truth is "TAJ looks beautiful only in pics"
Then we made a plan to visit Taj Mahal at evening. A wonderful thing was this Taj Mahal is quite near by hotel. It was hardly 5 minutes far from hotel. On way to Taj Mahal, there was a man asking to buy tissue paper to wear on top of shoes, we don't know why he was asking to buy those. He was selling them at Rs 10 only. We didn't buy that tissue papers at that time. Finally we reach near entry gate for Taj Mahal. Fortunately one of us have aadhar card to buy entry tickets. Without aadhar card proof we don't buy entry tickets. After buying a ticket we reach inside Taj Mahal after all security checks. A beautiful buildings was in front of me. We start taking pictures and finally after entering a gate we saw a beautiful mausoleum in front of us.
Said truth is "TAJ looks beautiful only in pics"
We are so excited to visit that white marble mausoleum but as we don't have tissue papers we have to walk there without shoes. But was giving more beautiful experience and we enjoyed a lot. More about historical places i like open space and beautiful arts. On the way back to Hotel we enjoyed horse riding .
A journey become more beautiful if we have some wonderful experiences and memories. A day i never forget where we enjoyed horse riding and whenever i saw that video, it's just bring a big smile on our face.
Finally we reached hotel and now it's time to have dinner. As we already started feeling hungry. We came to know that there is a beautiful restaurant at top floor of hotel as we surfed google. We went there and it was actually beautiful then that expected. We enjoyed our dinner there.
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| Dinner time |
On next Morning we get up and had breakfast as already booked with room booking Prantha with Tea . After this check-out at hotel and started back journey to Delhi. Booked an auto and reached at Station . As we know simple way to get a seat in train is give a Rs 100 note to TC . So we buy a normal ticket and we get into train. Same way we search for TC but no seats but an old man offer a seat and we both adjusted on opposite side as he was traveling with family. We started watching Youtube on JIO and time passes away. The old man and family deboard at Mathura Junction. TC came to our seat and we talk to him and provided us a seat no. Now we were felling hungry as we only took breakfast at hotel and Searching for meal service in train , we came across TravelKhana offering first meal free but due to review on fb page not prefer and decided to have lunch at Delhi only. Now new thing came up train is only upto Hazrat Nizaamudin station. We started searching "Nearest Metro station" and "OLA UBER fares". Finally we are back to Delhi. Came out of station and find restaurant near and enjoyed our lunch with Dal Makhni and Roti. After lunch booked a UBER direct to Rajiv Chowk and took metro from there and we are home.!!!!!!!!!!!
Things to keep in Mind :-
Things to keep in Mind :-
- Advance booking of Train or Bus tickets.
- Online booking of Taj mahal Visit ticket Click here .
- Hotel booking near to Taj Mahal.
- Keep Aadhar card with you if you want to visit Taj Mahal. As it required at time of buying entry tickets for Taj Mahal.
- Buy tissue paper if you want to visit in Taj with your shoes. If you don't buy a tissue paper then you have to walk bare foot in Taj Mahal
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