Contents 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 © 00--title-page-TOC-pk-rda1.inddtitle-page-TOC-pk-rda1.indd 2 66/06/2019/06/2019 22:03:26:03:26 PM Explore Survival Delhi & Agra 31 Guide 141 Old Delhi Before You Go ................ 142 (Shahjahanabad) ............. 33 Arriving in Delhi & New Delhi ...........................57 Agra ................................. 143 Sunder Nagar, Getting Around .............. 144 Nizamuddin & Essential Information ....145 Lodi Colony ........................75 Language ........................ 149 South Delhi .......................95 Index .................................152 Greater Delhi & Gurgaon (Gurugram) ......................107 Agra .................................. 121 Special Features Red Fort ............................ 34 Worth a Trip Jama Masjid...................... 38 Fatehpur Sikri................. 136 Purana Qila ........................76 Humayun’s Tomb ..............78 Akshardham Temple ....... 92 Qutab Minar Complex ... 108 Taj Mahal ..........................122 Agra Fort ..........................126 00--title-page-TOC-pk-rda1.inddtitle-page-TOC-pk-rda1.indd 3 66/06/2019/06/2019 22:03:27:03:27 PM Welcome to Delhi & Agra 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. 01--welcome-to-delhi-agra-pk-rda1.inddwelcome-to-delhi-agra-pk-rda1.indd 4 66/06/2019/06/2019 22:40:38:40:38 PM 7 SUMIT.KUMAR.99/SHUTTERSTOCK ©SUMIT.KUMAR.99/SHUTTERSTOCK © ROOP_DEY/SHUTTERSTOCK © KRISHNAN GUPTA/SHUTTERSTOCK RAVI Qutab Minar Complex The world’s tallest brick minaret. p108 Plan Your Trip Trip Your Plan Top Sights Agra Fort Awesome red-sandstone riverside fortress. p126 Mehrauli Archaeological Park Forested park scattered with ruins. p110 02--top-sights-pk-rda1.inddtop-sights-pk-rda1.indd 7 44/06/2019/06/2019 33:42:13:42:13 PM 9 Purana Qila Jama Masjid Delhi’s prodigious ‘Old Fort’. p76 Delhi’s principal mosque. p38 LEFT: SAIKO3P/SHUTTERSTOCK ©; RIGHT: LUCIANO MORTULA - LGM/SHUTTERSTOCK © LGM/SHUTTERSTOCK - MORTULA LUCIANO RIGHT: ©; SAIKO3P/SHUTTERSTOCK LEFT: FOTOS593/SHU RIGHT: ©; MAMMOSER/SHUTTERSTOCK DON LEFT: Plan Your Trip Trip Your Plan Top Sights TTERSTOCK © TTERSTOCK Fatehpur Sikri Akshardham Temple Emperor Akbar’s ghostly Delhi’s largest Hindu temple. abandoned city. p136 p92 02--top-sights-pk-rda1.inddtop-sights-pk-rda1.indd 9 44/06/2019/06/2019 33:42:14:42:14 PM.