Uttar Pradesh

Best travel reports from Uttar Pradesh

Day 4: Taj Mahal (23.02.2017)

Highlights of today were the train ride and of course the Taj Mahal. My friend Brendon and I dared to adventure the train ride in the 'Sleeper Class'. A tiny compartment...

Day 16: Beatles Ashram (07.02.2017)

Rent a scooter for about 5 euros, in order to plunge into the adventure of traffic. I got on the scooter and headed upstream to the Neer Garh waterfalls. It didn't take long for...

Tag 3: Agra / Dausa

We visited the Taj Mahal at sunrise and were allowed to admire it from the inside. It is a truly impressive building (a mausoleum to be exact 😌☝️), with a mosque and a...

Day 13-14: Agra

We arrived at the hotel late in the evening on the first day. The next day, the alarm clock rang at 05:30 because we had a visit to the Taj Mahal and possibly the sunrise on the...

Day 8: Ganges Sunrise (02/27/2017)

We really wanted to observe the Ganges at sunrise. At 5:30 a.m., we had to get up and look for a nice boat for 5 people. Since that was not particularly difficult given the...

Tag 2: Agra

Visit the Red Fort & the Taj Mahal Gardens. We will visit the wonder of the world from the inside at sunrise. In this smaller city, the roads are no longer properly paved...

Agra

Today, I took a train to Agra at 6 a.m. The train station is only a 6-minute walk from my hostel. It was a 2-hour journey, and then I took a Tuk Tuk to the Taj Mahal. It looks...