Location. Taj Mount Road is a contemporary hotel in Chennai city center, located one ... more
kilometer (0.6 mile) from the central business district and four kilometers (2.5 miles) from Marina Beach and Fort St. George. Hotel Features. Taj Mount Road featu...
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Location. Taj Mount Road is a contemporary hotel inChennai city center, located one ... more
kilometer (0.6 mile) from the central business district and four kilometers (2.5 miles) from Marina Beach and Fort St. George. Hotel Features. Taj Mount Road featur...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Advantages: Lots of food, very inexpensive Disadvantages: Ideal if your hungry - but too spicy if you're not
When I am looking for hotels in India, I often start by looking for so-called 'Heritage Hotels' since these can be fascinating old period buildings. When looking for a place in Hyderabad I found only one heritage hotel listed despite LOTS of googling and checking travel forums and this was the Taj Mahal in the Abids district of the city. Heritage it might be but nobody seemed to be suggesting that the age made it any more special so I decided not to bother but along the way I learned that it was an independent hotel and not part of the famous Taj hotel chain. I recalled that someone who'd written about the hotel that we eventually chose (the Geetanjali) had said they'd used the restaurant at the Taj because ours had none of its own. So on our first day we were driving back from the Salar Jung Museum and I spotted the Taj Mahal and I ...
Advantages: Utterly incredible views and atmosphere !! Disadvantages: Not suitable for the less fit
early stages of preparing for an eruption. Having said that I don't know if I would be comfortable owning property close by!! Because, even though Mount Vesuvius is one of the most studied and monitored volcanoes in the world, it is potentially one of the most dangerous!!
Well I did make the ascent and now I am able to sit here and write in all honesty - 'I have climbed Vesuvius' - and do you know - as an over weight late 50's woman - that it feels pretty good to be able to say that!!!
Our tour bus drove us to Mount Vesuvius and took us about two-thirds the way up the mountain - driving up a steep, bendy road that was quite daunting in itself. As we dismounted there were some small - rather shabby little shops and cafes and toilets ( which were absolutly packed!!)
From here you make the choice of walking up to the crater or not ...
Advantages: One of Indias most famous buildings, most well preserved and architecturally beautiful tomb in the world Disadvantages: None
The Taj Mahal in Agra has to be one of the classic images of India and one of the World's major landmarks.
I was once told you should only really go there with a lover, but I wasn't any less in awe just because i was in a group of 20, 17 year olds.
It''s one of those places, along with the Great Wall of China, that I've always thought of as a place that you have to visit at some point in your life.
Admittedly I ended up there quite by accident - if you can call having a fight cancelled and then missing the flight out of Delhi an accident.... but there you go.
Agra was the centre for the Mughal emperors until they moved their capital to Delhi in 1637. And the Taj Mahal is infact a tomb.
Built in 1631 by Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan as a tribute to his second wife, Mumtaz Mahal, after she died giving birth to their 14th child ...
