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Which is the best one to fly into for about 12/14 days? Cheap flights available....
Architecture, landscape and culture. I'm not really interested in beaches and tourist bars. Delhi seems to be nosing head from what I am looking up right now on the net. I don't intend staying in any particular city for more than a few days as I prefer the bits between conurbations.
Visits to Agra and Jaipur are of interest....
Head to Dehli then and have a mini tour around Rajastaan.
Udapiur
Jaipuir
Jodhpur
Jaisalmer
To name a few.
Agra is really worth avoiding. If you insist on seeing the Taaj just make it a day trip.
Even the smaller places in India are huge by our standards. The beauty of the country is not really the places but the charm.
Not sure how easy it is to do in the North but when we were in the southern states we rented motorbikes and turned up and random places without any sense of direction. Probably our favourite moments.
I've been to Madras (Chennai), Bombay (Mumbai), Hyderabad and New Delhi over the years on business trips. Be careful with the water, don't have ice in drinks, don't eat salad or any dodgy meat products like sausages. Lovely people, lots of history but if it's your first time be prepared for a shock and pack the Imodium.
Get right stuck in with the food.
Every curry I've had since has been nowhere near the standard.
Really wouldn't pick one above the other, both have their numerous attractions and a wealth of places to travel too to visit afterwards.
As others have said, travelling on to Rajastaan from Delhi is stunning. But flying into Bombay, so so are the temple complexes in the Decan traps and Cochin and the canals of the Kerela backwaters. Having travelled widely in India, I perhaps have a slight preference for the south, but this was almost 40 years ago so places will have changed.
But wherever you go, I'm sure you will love it and will go back to do some of the places you missed first time.
And if you go to Agra, don't miss the Tomb of I'timād-ud-Daulah aka the "Baby Taj", often said to be a precursor for the Taj. Stunning building and [was] much more relaxed.
Delhi - but you've missed the Pushka Camel Fair.
I love Mumbai and the surrounding area but wherever you go in India it's pretty mindblowing.
Much the same for Mumbai, 10 lanes of traffic in all sorts of directions working in no cohesion.
Bus is generally the best for travelling around India maybe less so out of the big cities. That being said had a Train from Dehli to Agra delayed by around 6 hours for just a 3 hour journey. Apparently the smog was particularly bad that day so trains were running extra slow.
On a bus between Jaipur and Udapuir there was a military man with a rifle sat next to me the whole journey. Had to wake him up to go for a piss at the services. He was not amused.