The principal sites and sights of what most of us think of as "iconic" India - the Taj Mahal of Agra, Delhi's Red Fort, the palaces of Jaipur, and the like - are all to be found along a circuit that has come to be known as the Golden Triangle. This trajectory of some 720 kilometers (450 miles) can be squeezed into as little as a week, getting from place to place via car, motorcoach or a mix of road and rail. This bracing mix of hyper-dense cities, country fields, and dusty rural villages, really does feel like a savoury smorgasbord of... keep reading