Comfort Inn Lucknow

Enjoy your royal stay in Lucknow.

by Incredible_India

nawabs were famous for eating pan.
It's a beetle leaves, and are taken generally after lunch or dinner. There's a famous shop below the STATE BANK OF INDIA, headquarter, near the K.D.Singh Babu, stadium where you can get good ones

IMP:
1)ALWAYS IN INDIA BUY WATER, donot drink tap water it can cause infection.
Bisleri,Ganga,Aqua are some good brand names and available on all kiosk
2.)Donot eat or drink anything that is kept open on stall or in shops. Food, and that leisure time thats only possible in Lucknow.

Bara Imambara

by Willettsworld

This is one of Lucknow's premier tourist attractions. It was built under the royal patronage of Nawab Asaf-ud-Daula (1775-97), and designed by architect Kifayatullah, as a famine relief project in 1784. The Bara Imambara contains the tombs of the Nawab and his queen, Shamsunnisa Begum. You first enter through two triple-arched gateways and past the Asafi mosque on your right. The main building is right in front of you and is a three-storied building constructed on a raised platform. There are seven arched openings in the facade and there are three halls inside which include the main hall that measures 47.71m long by 16.16m wide and is 14.65m high making it one of the world's largest vaulted galleries. The main hall is flanked by the Chinese Hall on the right and the Indian Hall on the left. The building is exquisitely decorated with stucco work and adorned with parapets and chattris. The interior is ornamented with chandeliers. More photo's can be found in one of my travelogues.

Open: Sunrise-sunset. Admission: Rs300 for foreigners.

Residency - Museum

by Willettsworld

Within the Residency compound is this small museum which is mostly underground where many of the British died. In fact there are still large holes in the walls made from the cannon balls that were fired during the siege. The museum shows a model of the entire Residency grounds and buildings as well as paintings by British artists and pictures of local Nawabs.

Open: 10am-4.30pm Mon-Sat. Closed Sundays. Admission: Rs5 for all.

Lucknow

by meshellndegeocello

"The most populous city of India"

Located in what was historically known as the Awadh region, Lucknow has always been a multicultural city. Courtly manners, beautiful gardens, poetry, music, and fine cuisine patronized by the Persian-loving Shia Nawabs of the city are well known amongst Indians and students of South Asian culture and history. Lucknow is popularly known as the The City of Nawabs. It is also known as the Golden City of the East, Shiraz-i-Hind and The Constantinople of India.

Today, Lucknow is a vibrant city that is witnessing an economic boom and is among the top ten fastest growing non-major-metropolitan cities of India. It is the second largest city in Uttar Pradesh state. The unique combination of its cultured grace and newly acquired pace is its most promising feature that augurs well for the future.

Oooops!!!! Its Agra on this page!!!

by Archie_Oak

Hello friends,

I had no other choice than putting Agra on this page....I have not yet visited Lucknow. Lucknow is popular for its nawabi ambience and Hindi spoken there is the purest Hindi spoken in India.
The best thing that you get in Lucknow is Lucknavi Kurtas.....and Lucknavi Chat is just mouth watering!!!
From here I think we will have to move towards Agra "Tajmahal" and "Dayalbaug".....

Everytime I visited this place, it was a new place for me....and everytime it just left me spellbound....
Will be back with more photos of TajMahal and Dayal Baug, another Marbel Temple in Agra, which has been under construction for past 25 years...

Please check the travelogue for more pictures!!!