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Covering
ground for gypsy feet that have a yen for walking down
history and scouting the truth behind folklores and
forgotten fables by all but the lovers of royalty, the
Golden Triangle tour provides the perfect opportunity
for visiting three of the most fascinating cities of
India; it is also one of the most popular travel packages
of India.
Delhi flags off the Golden Triangle leg of this tour;
as the capital of India, it is seeped in history, culture
and strikes a modernistic balance between various tourist
offerings, in the form of monuments like the Qutab Minar,
Red Fort, Bahai Temple, India Gate and many more such
opportunities for shutter-bugs to go a-clicking.
The city of Agra is the stop-over for this tour and
perhaps is best recalled as being the site of a world
famous monument of love - the pristine, white-marble
tomb, the Taj Mahal. Constructed by the Mughal Emperor,
Shah Jehan, the Taj Mahal is said to have been built
in the memory of his beloved wife, Mumtaj Mahal. Those
witness to the vision of the Taj Mahal by moonlight
are quick to recall the ethereal magnificence of this
ode to Love, however, its structural beauty and the
emotional it represents being Universal in flavor, lends
to the Taj, at any part of the day -a wonderous blush,
captured in most part in memory- no photograph quiet
doing it justice.
Jaipur, a royal city, known for its exclusive offerings
of gemstones, fabrics, palaces and folktales surrounded
by sand-dunes that transport one to the charm of a bygone
era, is sure to win favor with all looking for serenity,
distinctive cuisine, arm-loads of shopping and endless
opportunity for living it up like the olden day rulers-
if only for a day!
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