My wife and I are planning a 10 day trip to India and maybe one other country next February. At the top of our list is the Taj Mahal so Delhi and Agra are a must. The question is should we then fly to Mumbai or another city in India or should we go to a beach resort in the Maldives or Sri Lanka?

We know India is huge and one could spend many months traveling there but we like seeing a couple countries per trip and we like to get some good beach time in after we do the city/ adventure travel.

How are the beaches in Mumbai or Chennai? Or maybe we're missing out on another great thing to see in India, suggestions?

Here's another thing: wherever we go after Delhi/ Agra we'd like a direct flight to that place and then a location with an Etihad flight to connect through Abu Dhabi (e.g. DEL, BOM, CMB, and MLE all have EY flights to AUH).

Thanks.