Tours to Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

‘Indisputably the largest, most prosperous and most civilized pre-colonial city in India’ writes William Dalrymple of Lucknow, capital of the Kings of Avadh. Although better known for the bloody siege of its British Residency in 1857, the city preserves a wealth of gilded palaces, tombs and mosques whose domes and minarets still form, despite the encroaching decay, one of the most exotic skylines in the Muslim world.