Agra: Leading international travel website TripAdvisor has rated Taj Mahal as the second-best UNESCO world heritage site in the world. Welcoming the announcement, hoteliers in Agra said the need of the hour now was to rectify the "colossal mismanagement" of the historical site and sort out local irritants to ensure that the image of the Taj never falls in the eyes of tourists. The website ranked the Taj just after Cambodia’s Angkor Wat, with China’s Great Wall coming third. In order of ranking, the other world heritage sites in the top 10 are Peru’s Machu Picchu, the Iguazu Falls shared by Argentina and Brazil, the Sassi of Matera sites in Italy, Auschwitz in Poland, the Old City of...
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