Government of India Tourist Office, 191 The Mall (tel 72377) is open 9 am to 5.30 pm Monday-Friday, 9 am to 1 pm Saturday, closed Sunday. It’s a small, helpful office with plenty of printed information in five languages. You ...

If you can afford about Rs200 per head excluding tax, you can eat very well in Agr . The lunchtime buffets at the Mughal Sheraton (Chinese or Continental), at the Ta View (variety of cuisines) and at the Clarks Shiraz ...

Luxury/Expensive (US$50-150 per room night) Agra’s most expensive hotel, the five-star Mughal Sheraton, Fatehabad Rd (tel 101701, fax 0562-361730, tlx 0565-210), is a somewhat pretentious place with a president elephant, a resident camel, and an astrologer in the lobby. Still, ...

Agra is a positive mecca of handicraft shops and emporia, selling a wide rang goods from marble curios, brassware and embroidery to ivory, wood carvings, saris and ready-made garments, and carpets and jewellery. Every taxi and auto-rickshaw driver will try ...

Itmud-ud-Daulah’s Tomb-Chini ka Rauza-Ram Bagh Gardens-Sikandra lay two, first visit Agra’s most underrated sight: Itmud-ud-Daulah ‘s Tomb, 4 km(21/2 miles) upstream from the Taj and across the Yamuna River. The journey one bank to the road bridge across the river ...

The Taj is something to be seen at leisure, not rushed. Instead of bolting down to see it at close quarters, start with a general appreciation from the mammoth entrance gate: first the beautiful canals, fountains and tanks (sometimes with ...

Most people visit Agra during the cooler winter months of October to March. Possibly the best month is October, when the town is wreathed in crimson bougainvillaea and yellow mustard, there is no dust, and the Taj, washed by the ...