India Golden Triangle 21-25 Jun 2011 (Pt 4)

Continued from: http://happyotrekker.blogspot.com/2011/07/hp-bhapa-pass-trek-16-2062011-part-3.html

For our post-trek activities, we spent a day in Shimla before heading towards New Delhi. From Shimla, we took the 100 years old toy train (included in the Unesco World Heritage List) to Kalka. The train journey took 4 hours to complete 96km track through 103 tunnels. From here, we hitched a short train ride to Chandrigarh before switching to a sleeper train to New Delhi. A tourist van picked us up near New Delhi train station for our tour of India’s Golden triangle starting with Agra, then Jaipur before returning to New Delhi.

Sites visited included Agra Fort, Taj Mahal, Amber Fort, Jantar Mantar (collection of observatory instruments), Jama Majid, Mahatma Gandhi’s resting place, Government buildings, India Gate, Lotus Temple and Indian Bazaar.

Overall, it was a memorable YonGo trip in the pleasant company of:

1. Jamie Soon
2. Christina Goh
3. Sau Chein
4. Zhi Ling
5. C C Tam
6. Connie Tan
7. Y K Tan
8. Vincent Fong
9. S F Chan
10. Larry Loh
11. S K Hah
12. C K Chang
13. Frances Wong
14. Wai Fun
15. Wye Yim (Malaysia Guide)
16. Mohinder Singh (India Guide)

For the photographs, please refer to http://happytrekker.shutterfly.com/pictures/9873.