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Rajasthan Tour- Rajasthan Tourist Palaces- Agra Travel- Taj Mahal India
Taj Mahal. Sheer poetry in marble. Majesty and magnificence,
unrivalled. The Taj Mahal, the one and only one of its
kind across the world. The monumental labour of love of
a great ruler for his beloved queen. The ultimate realisation
of Emperor Shahjahan's dream. One of the wonders of the
world. From 1631 A.D., it took 22 years in the making.
An estimated 20,000 people worked to complete the enchanting
mausoleum, on the banks of the Yamuna. For a breathtaking
beautiful view of the Taj Mahal, see it by moonlight.
Open : 6 days a week (Closed on Friday's), Sunrise - 7.30 p.m.
as the world had never seen before". Thus emperor Shah Jahan set about building this fairytale like marvel. The construction of Taj Mahal was started in AD 1632 and completed at the end of 1648 AD. For seventeen years, twenty thousand workmen are said to be employed on it daily, for their accommodation a small town, named after the deceased empress-'Mumtazabad, now known as Taj Ganj, was built adjacent to it. Amanat Khan Shirazi was the calligrapher of Taj Mahal, his name occurs at the end of an inscription on one of the gates of the Taj. Poet Ghyasuddin had designed the verses on the tombstone, while Ismail Khan Afridi of Turkey was the dome maker. Muhammad Hanif was the superintendent of Masons.
The designer of Taj Mahal was Ustad Ahmad Lahauri. The material was brought in from all over India and central Asia and it took a fleet of 1000 elephants to transport it to the site. The central dome is 187 feet high at the centre.
Red sandstone was brought from Fatehpur Sikri, Jasper from Punjab, Jade and Crystal from China, Turquoise from Tibet, Lapis Lazuli and Sapphire from Sri Lanka, Coal and Cornelian from Arabia and diamonds from Panna. In all 28 kind of rare, semi precious and precious stones were used for inlay work in the Taj Mahal. The chief building material, the white marble was brought from the quarries of Makrana, in distt. Nagaur, Rajasthan.
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Duration : 11 N / 12 D
Destinations Covered : Delhi, Jaipur, Jodhpur,
Manvar,
Jaisalmer, Bikaner, Pushkar, Sawai Madhopur, Agara
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Duration : 9 Nights / 10 Days
DestinationsCovered :Cochin, Munnar, Periyar,
Kollam, Trivandrum, Kovalam
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Duration : 1 day
Destinations Covered :Delhi, Agra, Fatehpur
Sikri, Delh
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Duration :13Nights / 14 Days
DestinationsCovered :Chennai, Mahabalipuram,
Kanchipuram, Mahabalipuram, Tanjore, Madurai,
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Duration : 6 Nights / 7 days
Destinations Covered :Dekhi, Srinagar, Gulmargi
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Duration :12 Nights / 13 Days
Destinations Covered :Delhi, Kathmandu, Varanasi,
Khajuraho, Agra,
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Duration :20 Nights / 21 Days
Destinations Covered :Chennai, Mahabalipuram,
Kanchipuram, Mysore, Hassan, Bangalore, Alleppey,
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Duration :14 Nights / 15 Days
Destinations Covered :Delhi, Jaipur, Pushkar,
Ajmer, Udaipur, Ahmedabad, Veraval, Somnath, Bhavnagar, Somnath
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Duration :11 Nights / 12 Days
Destinations Covered :Delhi,
Mandawa, Bikaner, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Udaipur, kota, Jaipur,
Agra
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