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Month: August 2011

Obsolete Currency

Obsolete Currency

Imagine landing at the airport of a foreign land and upon clearing everything at the airport terminal you’ll go and catch at taxi with your head held high and ask to be sent to your hotel. Then upon arriving at the hotel, you’ll look at the taxi meter and chuckled a little because you expected it to be much more expensive than it turns out to be. Then you’ll take the appropriate amount of money from your wallet and even…

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The Day I Visited the Taj Mahal

The Day I Visited the Taj Mahal

You know how something as famous as the Taj Mahal would always put you in a dilemma. Thinking that we only had like one night in Agra – or probably two if we really really had to – we had to choose between viewing the Taj Mahal during the sunset or waiting until the next morning and view it at the sunrise. Skipping the sunset and opting for the sunrise might be quite risky because there was no way of…

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Agra and The Red Fort

Agra and The Red Fort

AGRA as a name of a town might not be known to most people but when we say – Taj Mahal, people would immediately let out an ‘ahhhhhhh’. And yes, compared to so many cities with all kinds of attractions in India, Agra has nothing much to offer. It just happened to be lucky to have one of the most famous buildings in the world. We arrived in Agra from New Delhi at about eight in the morning, at a…

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