4 days, 3 nights · Delhi · Agra · Jaipur
4-Day Golden Triangle with a licensed guide
Four days is the shortest version of the Golden Triangle that does not feel like a forced march. It buys one full day in each city and a half day for Fatehpur Sikri on the Agra–Jaipur leg, which is the stop that gets dropped from every three-day itinerary and is the best-preserved Mughal city in India.
Duration
4 days, 3 nights
From
₹28,999
Monuments
9
Cities
3
Day by day
4 days, 3 nights, laid out
Start times are written against the monuments’ own opening hours rather than rounded, which is why some of them look early. The plan is flexible on the day — this is the version that works if you leave it alone.
Leg 1 of 4
Day 1 — Delhi
- Morning
Airport or hotel pickup, then south Delhi
Qutub Minar and the Mehrauli complex, then Humayun’s Tomb — the Sultanate layer and the Mughal prototype, in that order.
- Afternoon
Old Delhi
The Red Fort, the Jama Masjid courtyard and Chandni Chowk by cycle-rickshaw.
- Evening
India Gate and the imperial axis
Lit, and busy with locals. Overnight in Delhi.
Leg 2 of 4
Day 2 — Delhi to Agra, 230 km
- 07:00
Depart on the Yamuna Expressway
About three and a half hours. The best road in north India and the reason this leg is comfortable.
- Midday
Agra Fort
Check in, then the fort: Akbar’s sandstone, Shah Jahan’s marble, and the Musamman Burj.
- Afternoon
Taj Mahal
Afternoon light on the west face. A new Agra guide takes over here, licensed on these monuments.
- Evening
Mehtab Bagh in winter
October to March the sun sets late enough for the garden across the river. Overnight in Agra.
Leg 3 of 4
Day 3 — Agra to Jaipur via Fatehpur Sikri, 240 km
- 05:45
Sunrise at the Taj Mahal
Optional, and the single best hour of the trip. Back for breakfast afterwards.
- 09:00
Fatehpur Sikri
Forty kilometres out on the Jaipur road. The Buland Darwaza, the Panch Mahal and the debating hall — two hours, on one ticket.
- Afternoon
Drive on to Jaipur
About four hours. The guide changes at the Rajasthan border; the car and driver do not.
- Evening
Jaipur
Bazaars, or a Rajasthani village dinner at Chokhi Dhani. Overnight in Jaipur.
Leg 4 of 4
Day 4 — Jaipur, then back to Delhi
- 08:00
Amber Fort at opening
Two and a half hours before the crowd. Sheesh Mahal, Ganesh Pol, and the garden in the lake below.
- Midday
City Palace and Jantar Mantar
The planned city of 1727, and an observatory whose instruments still work.
- Afternoon
Hawa Mahal and Johari Bazaar
The facade from the rooftop opposite, then the gem and textile bazaars.
- Evening
Depart for Delhi, 270 km
About five hours, or stay the night and leave in the morning — tell us which when you book.
Closed days, and how we plan round them
The Taj Mahal closes on Friday and the Red Fort on Monday. We build the day order around your arrival date so neither falls on a closed day, which is the main reason to tell us your dates before anything else.
Guide licences are issued per tourism region, so this itinerary changes guide at the Rajasthan border — a Northern Region guide for Delhi and Agra, a Rajasthan-licensed guide in Jaipur. The car and the driver stay with you for the whole trip. That is both the licensed way to run it and the better tour: each guide is working on their own monuments rather than reciting a script about somewhere else.
What you will see
The monuments on this circuit
Entry fees and opening hours are each monument’s own, taken from this site’s published guide to it.
On this tour · 1 of 9
Qutub Minar
- Entry — Indian
- ₹35
- Entry — foreign
- ₹550
- Hours
- 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Time needed
- 1.5–2 hours
| Monument | Entry — Indian | Entry — foreign | Hours | Closed | Time needed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qutub MinarUNESCO | ₹35 | ₹550 | 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Open all days | 1.5–2 hours |
| Humayun's TombUNESCO | ₹35 | ₹550 | Sunrise (about 6:00 AM) – Sunset (about 6:00 PM) | Open all days | 1.5–2 hours |
| Red FortUNESCO | ₹35 | ₹550 | 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM | Monday | 2–2.5 hours |
| Taj MahalUNESCO | ₹50, plus ₹200 to enter the mausoleum | ₹1,100, plus ₹200 to enter the mausoleum | 30 minutes before sunrise – 30 minutes before sunset | Friday | 2–3 hours |
| Agra FortUNESCO | ₹40 | ₹550 | 6:00 AM – 6:00 PM | Open all days | 2 hours |
| Fatehpur SikriUNESCO | ₹50 | ₹610 | Sunrise (about 6:00 AM) – Sunset (about 6:00 PM) | Open all days | 2–3 hours |
| Amber FortUNESCO | ₹100 (₹200 with audio guide) | ₹500 (₹550 with audio guide) | 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM, last entry 5:00 PM | Open all days | 2.5–3 hours |
| City Palace | ₹75, plus ₹190 for Chandra Mahal | ₹300, plus ₹700 for Chandra Mahal | 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM, last entry 4:30 PM | Holi | 2–3 hours |
| Hawa Mahal | ₹100 | ₹600 | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Open all days | 1 hour |
What it costs
The price, and what makes it up
The published 4 days, ertiga suv package plus the guide’s day rate, times the number of days. Both figures are already published on this site, and the total is the two added together.
Vehicle package
₹22,999
4 days, Ertiga SUV — Maruti Ertiga. Fuel, tolls, interstate taxes and driver included.
Guide · 4 days
₹6,000
₹1,500 a day for an English-speaking licensed guide. Another language adds the difference from the rate card.
Total
₹28,999
Hotels, meals and monument tickets are separate. Hotels can be arranged on request.
The fare, stated plainly
What is in the price and what is not
What the fare covers
- An AC vehicle with an experienced driver for the whole trip, the same car and driver throughout
- All fuel, tolls, parking, interstate taxes and the driver’s allowance and night charges
- A Ministry-of-Tourism licensed guide on each sightseeing day, in the language you book
- The guide’s licence card photographed and sent before anything is paid
- Door-to-door pickup and drop, and a day-wise plan you can change as you go
- 24-hour contact on the trip, with a number that reaches a person
What it does not
- Hotels and meals. We can arrange the hotels on request and will quote them separately
- Monument entry tickets, paid at the gate — the figures are on each city’s guide page
- Camera and video charges where a monument levies them
- Anything beyond the package distance, at the published per-km rate
- Guide and driver gratuity, customary but never compulsory
Ministry of Tourism, Government of India
Regional Level Guide (RLG)
- Language examined in
- Ten languages
- Licensing region
- Northern Region and Rajasthan
- Full day · 8 hours
- ₹1,500
- Half day · 4 hours
- ₹900
Every licence card carries a photograph, a licence number, the issuing region and the languages the holder is examined in. We send a photograph of the card on WhatsApp when a booking is confirmed, before you pay anything, so you can check the number, the region and the language against the guide who meets you.
The guide
Who comes with you, and how to check them
A Regional Level Guide licence is issued by the Ministry of Tourism after a written examination, an interview and a training course run through the Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management. It is issued for a tourism region, not for the whole country, and it names the foreign languages the holder is examined in.
Every licence card carries a photograph, a licence number, the issuing region and the languages the holder is examined in. We send a photograph of the card on WhatsApp when a booking is confirmed, before you pay anything, so you can check the number, the region and the language against the guide who meets you.
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