Updated 29 Sept 2026
First Time in India
The visa, the airport, the SIM, the cash and the scams — the first forty-eight hours, handled before you land.
Read guideTaj Mahal, Agra & Delhi travel guides
Written by guides who work these monuments and streets every week — the timings, the gates, the trains, and the practical details that decide how a day goes. Agra and Delhi both, and no booking required to read any of it.
Arriving in India
The things that decide how your first few days go — the visa, the airport, the water, the money and the questions nobody answers straight.
3 guides
Updated 29 Sept 2026
Is Indian Street Food Safe?
What actually makes travellers ill in India, why it is rarely the cooked street food, and how to eat well without losing a day.
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Updated 29 Sept 2026
Solo Female Travel in India
What is genuinely harder, what is overstated, and the practical decisions that make the biggest difference.
Read guideDelhi
Planning a day, working out the transport, and the honest answer on safety — from guides who work the city every week.
7 guides
Updated 17 Sept 2026
Is Delhi Safe for Tourists?
The honest version — what actually goes wrong in Delhi, what is exaggerated, and what solo female travellers should plan for.
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Updated 17 Sept 2026
Getting Around Delhi
The Metro is excellent and the traffic is not. When to use which, what things cost, and the mistakes that cost visitors time.
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Updated 23 Sept 2026
Delhi Itinerary: 1, 2 or 3 Days
Hour-by-hour plans for one, two and three days, built around Delhi's real travel times — and the closure days that catch most visitors out.
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Updated 23 Sept 2026
Delhi Airport Layover Guide
Whether you can leave the airport, how much time you really need, and what fits in six, eight or twelve hours between flights.
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Updated 24 Sept 2026
Old Delhi vs New Delhi
Two cities three hundred years apart, what each is actually like to walk, and the part of Delhi that is older than both.
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Best Time to Visit Delhi
Month by month on heat, fog and the winter pollution season — and the two windows that get you clean air and comfortable days together.
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Common Tourist Scams in Delhi
The ones that actually happen, how each is set up, and the one habit that defeats nearly all of them.
Read guideDelhi, monument by monument
Timings, closure days, what each ticket actually costs and how long to allow — for the sights a Delhi day is built around.
8 guides
Updated 29 Sept 2026
Red Fort
Open 9:30 to 4:30, closed Mondays, around ninety minutes inside — and what the British left of it after 1857.
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Updated 29 Sept 2026
Qutub Minar
Open daily, about an hour inside, no climbing — and the oldest thing in Delhi standing in the courtyard beside it.
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Humayun's Tomb
Open daily, about ninety minutes, and the building the Taj Mahal was modelled on — commissioned by a widow, eighty years earlier.
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Jama Masjid
Free to enter, closed to visitors at prayer times, and the one place in Old Delhi where the etiquette matters more than the ticket.
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Updated 29 Sept 2026
Akshardham Temple
Free to enter, closed Mondays, no phones or bags inside — and the security queue, not the temple, decides your afternoon.
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Updated 29 Sept 2026
Lotus Temple
Free, closed Mondays, and an hour-long weekend queue for a silent hall with nothing in it — which is either the point or a reason to photograph it from the garden.
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Updated 29 Sept 2026
India Gate
Free, always open, best after dark — and shut off for most of January while Republic Day is rehearsed.
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Updated 29 Sept 2026
Chandni Chowk
Six markets in one, best between ten and one, largely shut on Sundays — and the lane-by-lane map most visitors never get.
Read guideAgra & the Taj Mahal
Gate times that move through the year, the Friday closure, and every way of covering the road between Delhi and Agra.
7 guides
Updated 28 Sept 2026
Taj Mahal Sunrise Guide
The gate time changes every month. Here is when to arrive, which gate to choose, and an honest account of the first hour.
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Updated 5 Oct 2026
Delhi to Agra Travel Guide
Distance by route, train vs car vs bus, real timings and honest costs — plus the return-leg problem nobody mentions.
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Updated 16 Sept 2026
Taj Mahal on Fridays
Yes, every Friday, no exceptions. Here is what is still worth doing in Agra that day — including the view most visitors never see.
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Updated 5 Oct 2026
Is Agra Safe for Tourists?
Yes, in the way that matters. The real risk is not danger but persistence — and knowing how it works removes most of it.
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Is the Taj Mahal Worth It?
Yes — but not on every kind of visit. The honest version, including who should skip it and what ruins the day.
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Taj Mahal: Best Time of Day
Sunrise against sunset against midday — crowds, light, heat and queues compared, plus the full-moon night viewing.
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Do You Need a Guide at the Taj Mahal?
No. Here is what a good one adds anyway, who genuinely does not need one, and how to spot the fake ones.
Read guideAgra, monument by monument
Ticket prices, gate times, the Friday closure and how long each one needs — for the Taj Mahal and everything around it.
4 guides
Updated 29 Sept 2026
Taj Mahal
Gate times that move through the year, what a ticket really costs, the three-hour limit, and what gets taken off you at security.
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Agra Fort
Open daily including Friday, around ninety minutes, and only a quarter of it open — including the tower Shah Jahan died in.
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Fatehpur Sikri
A complete Mughal capital abandoned within fifteen years, two to three hours on foot, and the most persistent touts in Agra.
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Itimad-ud-Daulah (Baby Taj)
Cheaper, quieter and finer than its name suggests — the building where the Taj Mahal's inlay work was worked out first.
Read guideJaipur
Forts, palaces and the observatory — with the elephant ride question answered, and the one landmark you cannot actually go inside.
6 guides
Updated 29 Sept 2026
Amber Fort
Two to three hours, best before nine, and the elephant ride question answered honestly.
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Updated 29 Sept 2026
City Palace Jaipur
Ninety minutes, two ticket tiers that differ by a great deal of money, and the largest silver objects ever made.
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Hawa Mahal
953 windows, one facade, and an entrance nowhere near the side you came to photograph.
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Updated 29 Sept 2026
Jantar Mantar
Nineteen instruments, a sundial accurate to two seconds, and the one site in Jaipur that is wasted without a guide.
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Nahargarh Fort
An hour, the best view over Jaipur there is, and nine identical apartments built so that no queen outranked another.
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Jal Mahal
Free, five minutes, and closed to the public — a photo stop that people plan an afternoon around by mistake.
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