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agra fort is also known as lal qila
India, North, Uttar Pradesh

The gilded prison called Agra Fort, one of most magnificent forts in India

At the bend of the Yamuna River, just 2 kilometers away from the Taj Mahal, lies the magnificent Agra Fort. […]

January 7, 2020 By maverickbird
Inside the Fatehpur Sikri complex
India, North, Uttar Pradesh

The story of Fatehpur Sikri: an abandoned royal city

We left Agra the next day and started driving back towards Jaipur. Fatehpur Sikri was on the way and we […]

January 6, 2020
a woman on the agra highway
India, North, Uttar Pradesh

A winter road trip to Agra

My first trip to the Taj Mahal happened some years back when on a weekend my daughter and I ventured […]

January 4, 2020
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India, Uttar Pradesh

Itimad-ud-Daulah’s Tomb: The jewel box of Agra

On a sunny afternoon of 1893, an English archaeologist, Edmund William Smith from the Archaeological Survey of India stares at […]

January 3, 2020
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India, Uttar Pradesh

Mosaic love in Agra: Chini ka Rauza

Veiled gossiping women with babies on their hips stared at us as we walked by. The air was scented with […]

January 2, 2020

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