Akbar's Tomb, Agra

How to reach there
There are buses to and fro for Delhi every hour. Agra is on the main Delhi to Bombay broad-gauge railway line, so there are plenty of trains coming through.

Accomodation
Agra Ashok Hotel, Taj View Hotel, Mughal Sheraton, Novotel Agra.

      At Sikandra, 10 km north-west of Agra, the tomb of Akbar lies in the centre of a large peaceful garden. Akbar started its construction himself but it was completed by his son, Jehangir, who significantly modified the original plans, which accounts for the some what cluttered architectural lines of the tomb.

      The building has three-storey minarets at each corner and is built of red sandstone inlaid with white marble polygonal patterns. Four red sandstone gates lead to the tomb complex: one is Muslim, one Hindu, one Christian, and one is Akbar's patent mixture. Like Humayun's Tomb in Delhi, it is an interesting place to study the gradual evolution in design that culminated in the Taj Mahal.