Our Valley of Flowers trip was not successful if you consider the disappointment of the park being closed after such an arduous journey. However, it was a breat...
The next morning we started before time from Rishikesh. Our final destination of the Valley of Flowers National Park was still very far, yet we were eager to st...
As wonderful as the feeling was of my travel dream to the Valley of Flowers coming true, my experience at the jumping-off base of Haridwar was nearly traumatic....
At the bend of the Yamuna River, just 2 kilometers away from the Taj Mahal, lies the magnificent Agra Fort. It is so close to the iconic Taj, that most tourists...
We left Agra the next day and started driving back towards Jaipur. Fatehpur Sikri was on the way and we decided to stop there for the day. Considered to be one ...
The access to the Taj Mahal (at least the one we took) was so horrible that by the time we reached the entrance, I was actually wondering if it was worth all th...
My first trip to the Taj Mahal happened some years back when on a weekend my daughter and I ventured out on a road trip to Agra. It was during winter vacation a...
On a sunny afternoon of 1893, an English archaeologist, Edmund William Smith from the Archaeological Survey of India stares at a pristine marble tomb in Agra an...
Veiled gossiping women with babies on their hips stared at us as we walked by. The air was scented with green guavas and clusters of young litchis swayed in a m...
Our second Agra morning is my most memorable one. I woke up early and witnessed the breathtaking sight of the Taj emerging from the morning mist. Dreamlike, sub...