After breakfast you will drive 220kms to Agra which is a very interesting 3 hours drive passing through beautiful countryside and villages.
In the afternoon visit the world famous Taj Mahal built by Shah Jahan in 1560 in memory of his queen Mumtaz Mahal to enshrine her mortal remains. This architectural marvel is a perfectly proportioned masterpiece fashioned from white marble that stands testimony to the skill of 20,000 craftsmen brought together from Persia, Turkey, France and Italy and who took 17 year to complete this ‘ Love Poem in Marble’. (Friday closed).
Later visit the important 16th-century Mughal monument known as the Red Fort of Agra. This powerful fortress of red sandstone encompasses, within its 2.5-km-long enclosure walls, the imperial city of the Mughal rulers. It comprises many fairy-tale palaces, such as the Jahangir Palace and the Khas Mahal, built by Shah Jahan; audience halls, such as the Diwan-i-Khas; and two beautiful mosques. Built on the site of an earlier castle in AD 1565-75, many extant buildings were erected by Shah Jahan (AD 1630-55).
Irregularly triangular on plan, it is enclosed by a double battlemented massive wall of red sandstone which is about 2 km in perimeters and interrupted by graceful curves and lofty bastions. Of its four gates, the most impressive is the Delhi Gate on the west. Overnight is at the Hotel
