Agra Walking Tour
Duration:- One Day
Overview:
The glory of Agra City lies in the monuments built in contemporary Mughal style; most of the buildings belong to the period between 16-th century and 17-th century. The mughal love for architecture has given splendid monuments like Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, Itmad-Ud-Daula Fatehpur Sikri and Sikandra. Every year, many people visit here to explore magnificent history related to this place.
With the help of this tour, you can know more about this city and monuments related to this place. When you are here, explore the local markets, where you can see local activities of the town taking place along with this enjoy shopping at market place.
Our tour will start with experiencing the beauty of Taj Mahal in morning; our driver will pick you up from hotel early in the morning and drive you in car to Taj Mahal. Taj Mahal is defined as the eternal love of Emperor of Shah Jahan for his love Mumtaz. Taj Mahal a pure white marble mausoleum built in year 1653 with the help of 20000 workers who worked for 22 years to complete this splendid monument. After the spectacular view at Taj Mahal, we leave for Agra Fort taking tonga ride from Taj Mahal. We will take entry from Amar Singh Gate formerly known as Akbar gate, the main entrance of Agra Red Fort. It is made up using red sanstone and served the purpose of military in past i.e during Akbar reign. Here, Shah Jahan was imprisoned by his son Aurangzeb and served his last days and died here.
In noon, we will take you for lunch in an A.C restaurant; thereafter we will resume for our Agra Walking Tour. Now we will take you you to visit famous Spice market Kinari Bazar of Agra, where you can find all types of spices, exist since Mughal era. Here you can find old shop selling in traditional style. Along with this try Indian cup of tea which is refreshing and local street food which is spicy, delicious and have a touch of Indian flavors and all time favorite of local people related to this place.
At the end of your Agra Walking tour, we will take you to visit some famous antique collection of Mughal jewellery, colorful fabrics and art galleries. There you can find great collection of antique item, and can also buy souvenir as a memory of visit to Agra. After the tiring excursion of local walking tour, we will drop you back to your hotel with the lovely memories of tour.