A Tour For Attending Conference

The aim was to attend a conference that was organized at the Department of Physics, BHU, Varanasi. Me and one of my best friend, Harsh, took the opportunity to have a visit to one of the seven wonders of the world,  Tajmahal, Agra, whis is very near to Varanashi. And since Agra is very close to his home and his home is close to Jaipur, we finally decided to visit all this places. And finally we had tour to Delhi, Varanashi, Agra, Baran (Home town of Harsh), Kota, and Jaipur. This was a really long tour of 12 days including the conference. We traveled more than 7000 km and spent 7 night in train. But these places were so beautiful that we never tired.
As there were no direct train for Varanashi from Bangalore, we had to go via Delhi. This was my first travel through Rajdhani express and that was really a good experience in terms of food they served, service, punctuality. The train reached Delhi sharply at the scheduled time. Now we had 6 hr in our hand and we decided to visit Red Fort. But it was closed due to security reason, as 15'th August celebration was ahead. But we visited the Jama Masjid near to Redfort. That was also very nice place. Have a look at the pics.

Jama Masjid	Entrance of Jama Masjid	Red Fort form the road in front

Now at Varanashi. We reached BHU at 2:00 O'Clock at night, but we were warmly welcomed by the IT Guest House staff, where our lodging were arranged. I am really impressed by there hospitality and service. The room were well decorated with modern equipment, clean and well maintained. The campus of BHU is also nice place. The building were really nice. Whole campus is filled with greenaris. There was a temple inside the campus also. Where a lots of people come, from outside, every day. But unfortunately we don't have any photograph of that temple.

BHU Entrance	IT Guest house	Physics Department of BHU
Tample inside BHU	80 Ghat Varanashi

After Varanashi we went to Agra to view Tajmahal. Tajmahal is one of the seven wonders of world. And so I dont have to say any thing about Tajmahal.  We also visited to Agra fort. This is, you can say, twin of Redfort, Delhi. This is also a world heritage site.  Also the view of Tajmahal from Agra Fort was awesome.

Entrance of Tajmahal	Tajmahal one of the seven wonders of the world

Agra Fort	Entrance	Tajmahal from Agra Fort

From Agra we move towards Baran. This is the home town of Harsh (one of my best friend). This is a small but very nice town. It is surrounded by very beautiful land scape.

Now at Kota. This is the place where we took the train for Jaipur. We also visited to Harsh's uncle's house. And since we had some time we went to visit some park and mandir (temple) at Kota. We visited the Chambal garden, a really great park. We enjoyed boating here. This was my first experience of boating with motorized boat. Then we visited to temple of god siva, that was also very nice place to visit.

Sun setting	A park for children

Now the last point of our journey, Jaipur. Out of all the places we visited, we spend maximum time at Jaipur. We were staying in MNIT hostel with one Harsh's friend. The location of the MNIT is also very beautiful. We almost visited all the main tourist spot at Jaipur. Like Jaigarh Fort, Amber Palace, Nahargarh Fort, City Palace, Jantar Mantar, Albert Hall, Birla Mandir and Hawa Mahal.
Jaigarh Fort and Amber Palace are one of the most famous fort in India. This fort's security was so tight that no one ever dare to attacked to this fort. This was build at the top of hills near Jaipur at Amber. This is also the home of the largest canon on while in the world Jaivana.

Amber Fort from ground	Jaigarh Fort from ground	Amber Palace
A view from the top of Jaigarh Fort	Jaivana, the largest canon in the world

Nahargarh Fort is another fort adjacent to Jaigarh Fort. We can view whole Jaipur from this fort. This views are really breathe taking and awesome.

Jaipur from Nahargarh Fort	Another view of Jaipur from Nahargarh Fort	Jalmahal from Nahargarh Fort

The other places at Jaipur are also very good. City palace is very well decorated and the design at the wall and doors are excellent. The Birla mandir is very nice place to spend some time. Jantar mantar which is one of the very early observatory is a world heritage site. And Hawa mahal, its outside decoration is great.

Some other places of Jaipur
Albert Hall	Birla Mandir	Entrance of Birla Mandir
Hawa Mahal	City Palace	Inside decoration of City Palace
Jantar Mantar, the oldest observatory for astrophysics

At last I want to say this tour was really unforgettable experience for me. In spite of scorching hot I really enjoyed the tour. It is like a life time opportunity to visit this places. I am really thank full to harsh and his  friends for bing with me there.
Thanks
A Paul