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Delhi, Agra and Jaipur in seven days, three bases, two trains and one hired car, with no leg travelled twice.
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Delhi, Agra and Jaipur in seven days, three bases, two trains and one hired car, with no leg travelled twice. Start on a Wednesday. That is not arbitrary and it is worth more than any single sight on this list: it puts day 2 at the Nizamuddin dargah on a Thursday evening, which is the night the qawwals sing; it puts day 3 in Agra on a Friday, the one day of the week the Agra Development Authority does not levy its 500-rupee tourist toll, so the fort, the Baby Taj and Mehtab Bagh are all at their cheapest and the Taj is closed anyway; and it puts the Taj Mahal at sunrise on Saturday, when the 500-rupee toll is bundled into a ticket you have to buy regardless and therefore also covers Akbar's tomb that afternoon. Arranged that way you pay that toll exactly once in two days in Agra. The usual arrangement, one Taj-and-fort day plus a second monument day, pays it twice. The same logic runs in Jaipur: days 6 and 7 are consecutive so that one 2-day composite ticket, about 1,500 rupees for foreigners, covers Amber, Nahargarh, Hawa Mahal, Jantar Mantar and Albert Hall, which come to roughly 3,400 rupees bought one at a time. Delhi to Agra and Jaipur back to Delhi are trains because on those two corridors the train is faster, cheaper and more comfortable than the road. Agra to Jaipur is a hired car for the opposite reason: it is the only way Fatehpur Sikri and the Chand Baori stepwell are on the route instead of being two separate day trips. Budget about 23,100 rupees per person of listed costs, of which roughly 5,250 is intercity transport and about 8,300 is monument admission, because foreigner ticket prices dominate a trip like this far more than food does. Lodging is extra. Every Rajasthan monument price here reflects the revision that took effect on 1 January 2026, so a guidebook printed before then will undercount Jaipur badly. October to March; May and June in Agra and Jaipur run past 45 degrees.
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Day 1 — Land in Delhi, then Shahjahanabad on foot (overnight: Delhi, 2 nights)Land in Delhi, then Shahjahanabad on foot (overnight: Delhi, 2 nights)
Day 2 — The southern axis: Qutub, Humayun's tomb, and qawwali at the dargahThe southern axis: Qutub, Humayun's tomb, and qawwali at the dargah
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Every venue was checked against current public sources — hours, prices, closures — before it was published. Walks and transit legs are not in the count.
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How we check
Anything with a kitchen or a ticket gate is verified individually: the official site where one exists, plus recent traveler reviews. Public squares, parks and viewpoints get an existence check. A venue we can’t confirm is flagged below rather than quietly kept, and the whole itinerary is re-checked on a cadence — past 12 months without one, the checked claim is dropped and the date above stops being a promise.