The Red Fort is defined by its massive, towering walls of red sandstone, which reach heights of up to thirty-three meters and enclose a vast, octagonal complex. Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan commissioned this fortress-palace in sixteen…
The Best of Delhi
This tour highlights Delhi's most legendary monuments, spanning centuries of imperial, religious, and architectural history. We will visit the city's essential landmarks, from colossal Mughal structures to serene modern temples.
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1. Red Fort
2. Jama Masjid
The Jama Masjid is defined by its massive red sandstone and white marble exterior, which rises on a stone platform more than thirty steps above the surrounding streets. As the principal mosque of Delhi, it served as the imperial place of…
3. Gurdwara Bangla Sahib
Gurdwara Bangla Sahib is recognizable by its gleaming golden dome and white marble facade that rises above the surrounding cityscape. This site began as a seventeenth-century bungalow owned by the Rajput ruler Raja Jai Singh. In sixteen…
4. Agrasen ki Baoli
Agrasen ki Baoli is a rectangular stone stepwell that descends into the earth through one hundred and three steps, separating itself from the surrounding modern skyline with its deep, symmetrical tiers of arched niches. Measuring sixty…
5. India Gate
The India Gate is a forty-two-meter-tall triumphal arch built from red Bharatpur stone that rises in stages to a massive cornice. Located at the eastern end of the Kartavya Path, the structure was originally named the All India War…
6. Lodhi Garden
Lodhi Garden is defined by its collection of grey quartzite stone monuments from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, which sit scattered among ninety acres of manicured lawns and mature trees. These tombs, belonging to the rulers of the…
7. Humayun’s Tomb
Humayun’s Tomb is a sprawling, symmetrical mausoleum of red sandstone and white marble, rising high above its surroundings with a prominent, slightly bulbous double dome. Commissioned in fifteen sixty-five by Empress Bega Begum, the widow…
8. Bahá’í Lotus Temple
The Lotus Temple is defined by its twenty-seven free-standing, marble-clad petals, which are arranged in groups of three to form a nine-sided structure. This Bahá’í House of Worship in New Delhi is built of white concrete and covered in…
9. Qutb Minar
The Qutb Minar is a tapering tower of red and buff sandstone that rises seventy-two and a half meters above the landscape, distinguished by its five storeys, projecting balconies, and alternating angular and rounded flutings. It stands as…