Sur Sarovar Bird Sanctuary
Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
Nearby attractions
Akbar's Tomb Sikandra
Agra, Uttar Pradesh
The great emperor's own mausoleum in a 119-acre charbagh where blackbuck graze — a red-sandstone pyramid of pavilions he began himself.
Agra Fort
Agra, Uttar Pradesh
The UNESCO red-sandstone fortress of the Mughals — Akbar's walls wrapping Shah Jahan's marble courts, with the Taj framed from Musamman Burj.
Chini ka Rauza
Agra, Uttar Pradesh
The glazed-tile tomb of Shah Jahan's poet-minister Afzal Khan — Persia's china-mosaic art surviving on a quiet Yamuna bank.
Itmad-ud-Daulah (Baby Taj)
Agra, Uttar Pradesh
Nur Jahan's jewel-box tomb for her father (1628) — the first all-marble Mughal building, whose pietra dura inlay rehearsed the Taj.
Dauji Temple Baldeo
Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
The great shrine of Krishna's elder brother Balarama, famous for Huranga — the day after Holi when women drench and strip men's shirts to whips.
Mehtab Bagh
Agra, Uttar Pradesh
The 'moonlight garden' across the Yamuna, aligned perfectly with the Taj — the classic sunset frame of the mausoleum mirrored in the river.
Taj Mahal
Agra, Uttar Pradesh
The world's most celebrated monument to love — an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the Yamuna, built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan for his empress Mumtaz Mahal. Its perfect dome, minarets, pietra-dura inlay and charbagh gardens change colour from dawn pink to moonlit silver, and it draws millions each year as India's crown jewel and a UNESCO World Heritage wonder.