The Golden Triangle Tour to India cover famous tourist attractions of India. GoldenTriangle Tour in India comprises three famous tourist destinations of north India i.e. Delhi-Agra-Jaipur. Each spoke has distinct culture and mores and add to the revering experience. The prospect of having a material vision of endearingly familiar names of the monuments such as Taj Mahal, Red Fort, Amber Fort, Hawa Mahal, Jama Masjid, Qutub Minar, Fatehpur Sikri and numerous other places, markets, parks etc just about complete the picture of perfection.
Golden Triangle Tours offer an opportunity to explore country's unique secular character via channels of historic edifices, blazing bazaars, captivating performing art scene and culinary delights. Highlights of this traveling circuit are:
India's Golden Triangle is a tourist circuit which includes: Delhi, Agra (including the Taj Mahal), and Jaipur. These trips usually last 7 or 8 days and do the trip as a circuit starting and ending in Delhi. Flights and hotels are often included in the price, and it is normally possible to do the trip by coach or private journey through most tour operators. Although the Golden Triangle is now a well travelled route it is rightly so, hosting many of India's great cultural gems, and providing a good spectrum of the country's different landscapes.
The Golden Triangle is so called because of the triangular shape formed by the locations of New Delhi, Agra and Rajasthan on a map, but is occasionally expanded to include the wider geographical area of North India, most frequented by tourists. Most tourist fly from Delhi, travel south to the site of the Taj Mahal at Agra,, then West to the desert landscapes of Rajasthan, including the city of Jaipur. These three cities are very famous and that is a basic and most famous route for a tourist to visit in India.
Delhi:The National Capital Territory of Delhi is spread over an area of 1,484 km2 (573 sq mi), of which 783 km2 (302 sq mi) is designated rural, and 700 km2 (270 sq mi) urban. Delhi has a maximum length of 51.9 km (32 mi) and the maximum width of 48.48 km (30 mi). There are three local bodies (statutory towns) namely, Municipal Corporation of Delhi (area is 1,397.3 km2 or 540 sq mi), New Delhi Municipal Committee (42.7 km2 or 16 sq mi) and Delhi Cantonment Board (43 km2 or 17 sq mi).
Jaipur: Jaipur is one of the finest planned cities of India, located in the semi-desert lands of Rajasthan. The city which once had been the capital of the royalty now is the capital city of Rajasthan. The very structure of Jaipur resembles the taste of the Rajputs and the Royal families. At present, Jaipur is a major business centre with all requisites of a metropolitan city.Jaipur has some big and famous areas in India like Mansarovar, Vaishali Nagar, Sanganer, Jhotwada,Amba-Bari, Raja Park etc.
Agra: Though Agra's history is largely recognised with Mughal Empire, but the place was established much before it and has linkages since Mahabharat period and Mahirshi Angira in 1000 BC. It is generally accepted that Sultan Sikandar Lodī, the Ruler of the Delhi Sultanate founded Agra in the year 1504. After the Sultan's death the city passed on to his son Sultan Ibrāhīm Lodī. He ruled his Sultanate from Agra until he fell fighting to Bābar in the First battle of Panipat fought in 1526.
In the year 1556, the great Hindu warrior Hemu Vikramaditya, also known as Samrat Hem Chander Vikramaditya, won Agra as the Prime Minister cum Chief of Army of Adil Shah of the Afghan Sūrī Dynasty. The commander of Humāyūn / Akbar's forces in Agra, Tardi Beg Khan, was so scared of Hemu that he retreated from the city without a fight. This was Hemu's 21st continuous win since 1554, and he later went on to conquer Delhi, having his coronation at Purānā Qil'a in Delhi on 7 October 1556 and re-established the Hindu Kingdom and the Vikramaditya Dynasty in North India.
These cities of Golden Triangle Tours are situated at a 4-5 hours of driving distance from each other and hence can be covered in a weekend's time. Good infrastructure, smooth roads and premier class hotels make these cities even more travel friendly. Other attractions that have been pulling visitors since always are great choices for shopping, a colorful palate of performing art forms, variety of culinary delights and incredible festivals and recreational activities of all kinds.