India’s golden triangle is a tour which attaches India’s capital Delhi, Agra and Jaipur. The Golden Triangle is termed because of the triangular shape formed by the situations of New Delhi, Agra and Rajasthan on a map.
GOLDEN TRIANGLE TOURS
Delhi, the capital of India, is a place where many individuals commence their trip. It’s distributed in two parts — the putrefying old city of Old Delhi, and the organized and well planned New Delhi — which live side by side, but the ambiance is like they’re worlds apart. It’s worth passing some days discovering the city’s primeval mosques, forts, and monuments left over from the Mughal rulers which previously occupied the city. As several of them are arranged in smart reformed gardens, you can rest at the same time!
Agra is abode of India’s most famed cenotaph and one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Taj Mahal. Thus, it’s a must-see destination on anybody’s tour of India. Words can’t do the justice to Taj Mahal, it’s unconceivable features are simply to be grasped and be cherished. Agra is simply reachable by road or rail from Delhi. The drive takes around 3 hours.
Jaipur is the capital of Rajasthan state, India. Demonstratively it is also known as the Pink City because the pink walls and buildings of the old city, allures tourists with its spectacular leftovers of a long-gone era. Jaipur’s most well-known lure is the front fascia of the “Hawa Mahal”, or Palace of the Winds, which oversees the main street of the lively Old City. Old forts and palaces, royal residences, and exceptional shopping prospects confirm there’s abundantly to see and do there. Transportable time from Agra and Delhi to Jaipur is 4-5 hours.
Yes. For all its muck, traffic and crowds, the Indian capital is a bizarrely likeable entry-point to the country. Guidebooks foretell disconsolately about the culture shock and aggravation factor, but the subtlest personalities are expected to find the first visit more rousing than shocking or exasperating. Delhi is a megalopolis on the up: the population is young, the economy is dynamic (perceptibly so: you’ll see despondent scarcity but you’ll also see countless individual-run small businesses) and nevertheless the cultural roots are holding firm.
Where Shall I Sleep ?
Unquestionably the best located and smartest hotel in Agra is the Oberoi Amarvilas at Taj East Gate Road. It is less than 500m from the Taj, and gives stunning views of the catacomb from each of its 105 bedrooms.
Agra’s mid-range hotels lack charm: as good a stake as any is the four-star Clarks Shiraz, favored by many tour companies. Jaipur acts better: desirable for the pleasant three-star Dera Rawtsar, – a building on a suburban street done up as a heritage-style palace. Decent mid-range hotels in Delhi includes Hotel Jivitesh, with tidy four-star facilities. This is in particular a vegetarian hotel.
Reliable mid-range eateries in central New Delhi embrace the Banana Leaf, at Connaught Place, a decent family-style restaurant serving up South Indian specialties such as dosa besides exceptional thalis. Nirula’s, at L-135 Connaught Place, is also another good restaurant to dine for.
And Eat?
Barista, Jaipur is in the mall opposite Raj Mandir cinema, but here a first-rate choice is the LMB restaurant on Johari Bazaar where pure vegetarian food is served.
In Agra, decent choices outside the big hotels are limited: careful diners should dodge the hole-in-the-wall restaurants conquering the alleyways around the Taj Mahal and instead take a rickshaw out to Only, a garden restaurant which fascinates local family parties as gladly as Western tour groups. Sit out on its cool lawns for splendid Mughlai cooking.
And How To Get Around The Golden Triangle Tour?
Journey between Delhi and Agra
A new express highway is built from Delhi to Agra, hence you will be able to cover 200kms in under 4 hours. You can also board Shatabadi Express train service which is very quick to reach under 2 hours and is the best way to reach Agra from Delhi for a day trip. The train leaves Delhi at around 6 in the morning, where you get the full day at Agra and you return on the same train at around 9 at night, getting back into Delhi by midnight.
Journey between Agra and Jaipur
The road between Agra and Jaipur is not an express way and the 250km drive will take approximately 5 hours by road. There are many interesting places en-route, so we recommend that you should take a full day for this drive. Shatabadi Express train also operates on this sector which takes around four and a half hours, but you will miss the spectacular – on the way sites such as Fatehpur Sikri, Abhaneri Step wells etc. Hence we recommend to opt for Agra – Jaipur drive or vice versa.
There are no flight services between Agra and Jaipur, so if you would like to fly, you will need to transit Delhi.
Travel between Jaipur and Delhi
The road between Jaipur and Delhi is presently being enlarged, so this drive is fairly long, taking around 6 hours to cover the 250km trip. So for this segment, think to travel by train, and as you have might have heard, train travel in India is an experience in itself! The train, Shatabadi Express, will take around four and a half hours. For the flights; there are plenty of flights proposed by proficient carriers between Jaipur and Delhi, and with a flight time of around an hour, a very speedy option.
The best direction to travel in
You can tour the golden triangle in any direction because there is very little difference. A lot of tourists carry on to see the locates of Rajasthan after the Golden Triangle, so if that is what you are scheduling to do, then it is the best to travel from Delhi, to Agra and then on to Jaipur, from where the rest of Rajasthan is undoubtedly reachable. If you are doing a speedy trip of the Golden Triangle, then we recommend visit Jaipur first, as the architecture there is quite different to that of Agra and Delhi.
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