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Agra Travel Local
Travel To take an auto-rickshaw for a full day of sight-seeing should be less than Rs 300 a day and Rs 150 for half a day. This includes waiting time. A taxi should costs around Rs 400 a day and if you want to go to Fatehpur Sikri it should be around Rs 600. A bike-rickshaw tour should be no more than Rs 25 per hour. Often the rickshaw drivers really know the city, the tourist sites, and the restaurants. They can actually be quite helpful. Travel
Corporation of India (361-122), in the Hotel Clarks Shiraz; Pleasure
Tours (364-771), 507 The Mall; Travel Bureau (360-118), Hotel Taj View,
Fatehabad Rd, are reliable travel agencies, and good places to arrange
a tourist taxi. RR Travels, Fatehabad Rd, Taj Ganj, rents cars for Rs
600 a day, including Fatehpur Sikri. Indian Airlines flies to Delhi (1 daily, 40 minutes, $55) and Khajuraho (1 daily, $75) with a connection to Varanasi (1 daily, $100). It is usually faster to drive or take a train from Delhi. You should book flights out of Agra as far in advance as possible. The Indian Airlines office (360-948; Airport: 301-180) is at the Clarks Shiraz Hotel. Open daily 10 am to 1.15 pm and 2 to 5 pm. There is also an office for Jet Air at the Clarks Shiraz. Train There are six train stations in Agra. Agra Cantt Station, in the southwest, is the most convenient for most hotels. The best station to get a train to Rajasthan is Agra Fort Station, where trains depart for various places in Rajasthan, including Jaipur. The station before this, Agra City Station, is a good distance from town. Rickshaw drivers may try to persuade you to get off there, so they can charge you a high fare to get to a hotel. Be careful of the rickshaw drivers that meet you on the platforms, as often they can be real jerks (some will absolutely refuse to bring you to the hotel of your choose). It is usually best to get a prepaid auto-rickshaw (Rs 25 to Rs 50 to any hotel in town) or to choose a rickshaw driver that is not aggressive. If you are new to India, please read the warning above. There are many trains from Delhi to Agra. One of the best trains to take from Delhi is the fully air-conditioned Shatabdi Exp #2002 (2 hr, Rs 300), which departs from Delhi at 6.15 am. The Shatabdi Exp #2001 returns to Delhi from Agra at 8.15 pm, arriving in Delhi two hours later at 10.25 pm. The Taj Express leaves at 7.15 am from the Nizamuddin Station in Delhi. It arrives in Agra at 10.15 am. It returns from Agra the same day at 6.45 pm and arrives in Delhi at 9.45 pm. To see the sites in Agra, you can get a tour bus at the station that brings you back in time to get a train back to Delhi at night. Many other express trains go between Delhi and Agra, usually taking between 3½ to 4 hours. Agra is on the main Delhi to Mumbai railway line. There are 12 trains daily to Mathura (1 hr). There are direct trains to Varanasi, Goa, Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum, 51 hr), Calcutta via Patna (30 hr), Goa, Mumbai (29 hr, Punjab Mail #1038), and Chennai (35-40 hr). To get to Khajuraho, you first take a train to Jhansi (at least 3 hr) and then a bus to Khajuraho (5 hr). There are some direct trains that head north past Delhi to the Himalayas. There are trains to Mughal Serai station near Varanasi. Most of the express trains between Delhi and Calcutta do not stop in Agra. There are several trains departing from Tundla (an hour bus ride east of Agra) that go to both Varanasi and Calcutta. At Agra Cantt Station, there are only a limited number of tourist quota seats to Varanasi, so it is best to book a ticket as far in advance as possible. If you have a problem getting a ticket out of Agra you can always go to Delhi and book a train from there. Bhopal
Shatabdi Exp #2002 ; Jaipur Marudar Exp #2921 (5.30 am, 6 hr), Howrah-Jodhpur
Exp (6.30 pm, 8 hr); Gwalior Shatabdi Exp #2002 (8 am, 1¼); Jhansi
Shatabdi Exp #2002 (8 am, 2½ hr); Lucknow Avadh Exp #5064 (10
pm, 8½ hr); Mumbai Punjab Mail #2138 (8.30 am, 23 hr). Buses to and from Delhi and Mathura (1½ hr) also depart from Agra Fort Bus Stand, just west of the fort and a half km west of Agra Fort railway station. The buses to Mathura leaving from Idgah bus station are slightly faster and are usually in better condition than the ones departing from Agra Fort bus stand. If you know of a informationthat is not correct or if you would like to help update our listings, please e-mail us at:
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