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Plan Your Trip 4 Welcome to Delhi & Agra ...... 4 Top Sights ...... 6 Eating ...... 10 Old Delhi’s Delicious Street Food ...... 12 Drinking & Nightlife ...... 14 Shopping & Markets ...... 16 Spiritual Delhi & Agra ...... 18 History ...... 20 Activities & Tours ...... 21 Museums ...... 22 For Kids ...... 23 Four Perfect Days ...... 24 Need to Know ...... 26 Delhi & Agra Neighbourhoods ...... 28
Akbar’s Mausoleum, Sikandra (p131) ZORAN KARAPANCEV/SHUTTERSTOCK ©
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It’sIt’s no shock thatthat MughalMughal India’s two greatgreat capital cities flauntflaunt suchsuch incredibleincredible historicalhistorical ricricheshes – notnot leastleast thethe peerlesspeerless TajTaj MahalMahal – butbut DelhiDelhi and AgraAgra springspring some surprises too. Heavenly street food,food, gloriouslygloriously chaotic bazaars and, in Delhi’s modern suburbs, sky trains that zip shoppers from mall to mall, offer a tantalising glimpse of the India of the future.
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UI.UA.9SUTRTC OPDYSUTRTC RAVIGUPTA/SHUTTERSTOCKKRISHNAN © ROOP_DEY/SHUTTERSTOCK © SUMIT.KUMAR.99/SHUTTERSTOCK © Qutab Minar Complex The world’s tallest brick minaret. p108 Plan Your Trip Top Sights Top
Agra Fort Awesome red-sandstone riverside fortress. p126
Mehrauli Archaeological Park Forested park scattered with ruins. p110
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Purana Qila Jama Masjid Delhi’s prodigious ‘Old Fort’. p76 Delhi’s principal mosque. p38 ET AK3/HTESOK© IH:LCAOMRUA-LMSUTRTC LEFT: DON MAMMOSER/SHUTTERSTOCK ©; RIGHT: FOTOS593/SHU LEFT: SAIKO3P/SHUTTERSTOCK ©; RIGHT: LUCIANO MORTULA - LGM/SHUTTERSTOCK © Plan Your Trip Top Sights Top TTERSTOCK ©
Fatehpur Sikri Akshardham Temple Emperor Akbar’s ghostly Delhi’s largest Hindu temple. abandoned city. p136 p92
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