Delhi Agra Trip For Weekend

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Delhi, the capital of India and Agra, the city of love. The distance between Delhi and Agra is 233 kilometers via Yamuna Express and it takes around four hours to reach there. So according to the time taken for the journey, Agra Day Tour Packages can be planned it would be great. Calculating the time of coming to Agra and then returning back to Delhi would take around eight hours so the rest of time can be utilized for the sightseeing of Agra.

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Agra was considered and still considered as the Mughal Capital City and it is spread in an area of eighty-seven kilometers square. We know this city was established by the Mughals so the effect of Mughal architecture and culture is clearly seen all over Agra. Agra is a major tourist destination because of its many Mughal-era buildings. The city was first mentioned in the epic Mahabharata, where it was called Agrevaṇa (derived from Sanskrit language meaning "the border of the forest"). It was known then as Akbarabad during the Mughal period.

The time is less so if you are in Agra then forgets the other places but visit one and only famous monument that is the Tajmahal. The meaning of the name Tajmahal is "Crown of the Palace". It is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the south bank of the Yamuna River in the Indian city of Agra. The monument was built in 1643 by twenty thousand artisans under the guidance of a board of architects led by the court architect to the emperor, Ustad Ahmad Lahauri. This was built by the great Mughal Emperor Shahjahan in the loving memory of his favorite wife Mumtaz Mahal who dies while giving birth to his fourteenth child. There is a room in the monument where the body of Mumtaz Mahal was cremated and the monument was built above that. No one is allowed to enter that area but only can see from far off.

taj mahal day trip

Making a journey of Delhi to Agra in a day along with visiting Tajmahal can be successful if everything managed properly. The time has checked if you have to return back on time as we all know the issue of traffic. The Yamuna Express gets crowded as the day ends and the journey of fours might take six hours. If you are visiting Agra from Delhi and has gone to see the Tajmahal then you may consider your day or trip to Delhi Agra Taj Mahal day trip.

Do you know Delhi and Agra are also the part of Golden Triangle tour packages along with Jaipur? In case you are going for the North India trip in golden triangle India 5 nights 6 days tour you can visit all the cities in details. You would have lots of time to view all the places of all the cities as you can give two days each to all the cities respectively. Agra City has many more places to visit along with Tajmahal which tells a lot about the Indian History and Mughal Empire.