Rajasthan by Rishikesh
Visit the golden triangle with Ganga. Along with Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, we will visit 'Rishikesh', which is called the capital of yoga in the world, It's the chance to do yoga at Ganga! A chance to experience the ancient spiritual culture of india in Rishikesh with medieval mughal architecture in Delhi, Agra, the rajasthani art in Jaipur, special food in the most beautiful places.
Day 1
Morning arrival at Delhi
We will visit the "Tomb Humayun 's", which is inscribed on the list of "World Heritage" by UNESCO. The Mughal emperors wanted to go to heaven after death. In the Qur'an, the paradise is described as a beautiful garden, with a beautiful river, superb trees .. So they built their graves following the explanations of the Qur'an. This means that once you are in the tomb of Humayun, you will feel being in Paradise! Colors and architecture of this tomb will fill your heart with joy!
Then we will go to "Qutub Minar", an other site listed as World Heritage by UNESCO. It is the highest brick tower in the world.
This is one of the architectural wonders of India which combines Hindu and Islamic architecture. You will see the oldest mosque in North India and it is a component of Qutub Minar. But the most surprising part is the "Ashoka Pillar", which is older than 1600 years and remains a scientific mystery unsolved: it has never rusted!!! It is hard to believe! So come and see by yourself!! The only thing that comes to mind is that our ancestors were very smart!
Then we will travel through time! We will jump back 500 years! When you enter in the market Chandni Chauk, you will find yourself in the Medieval period. This colorful market has not changed since that time. Oh! We bet you have never seen so many beautiful colors together in one place in your life! Watch these narrow streets, with these beautiful decoration shops, these small food corners, these jewelry stores and precious stones, old traditional ways to carry goods, these very old houses. This is the famous "Paratha Wali Gali" (the famous street food) with girls and women dressed in traditional garments saying you "namaste!" "Oh! it's really a different and beautiful world! "(We are sure you will tell us that).
Before dinner time, you can enjoy a relaxing massage.
Night stay at Delhi hostel
Strengths:
Wellness:
Peaceful-Nature
Yoga outdoors
Therapeutic Yoga
-Meditation in nature
Massage
-Trekking at your own pace ...
Enriching encounters:
meeting with Indian villagers
-sharing activities with the street children
-Shows folk songs and dances ...
-meeting with elephants and their breeders
-camel ride
Culture:
-Visit ashrams and Temples: Akshardham
-Visit the old Mughal capital Agra: Taj Maha, Red Fort
-Famous aarti show of Haridwar
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Day 2
After our breakfast, we will leave for an amazing trip! We will go to Jaipur.
First of all, we will visit the ancient hunting ground of the Maharajas, which is now a bird sanctuary. During your bike ride or walk (you will choose), accompanied by an expert guide, you will learn and discover all the wonders of this park, a World Heritage Site by UNESCO since 1985.
For peace of species, the park is closed to tourists in May and June. During this period we will take you visit the fort nemrana where you can have lunch and also participate in paid activities, if you want (driving a race car, "fly" above the city, on an elastic band. ..)
On the road to Jaipur, you can admire the unique scenery, beautiful little unexpected villages, tribal life, women in traditional Rajasthani dresses bringing water in a pan placed on the head and singing at the same time, traditional agriculture and much more which will certainly make you thinking you are traveling in a world where the lifestyle and thoughts are very different from yours, but so interesting and rewarding.
We will visit the beautiful pink city. It is a unique city, traditionally designed, beautiful gates of the city, the beautiful architecture of the city, nice shops, houses, streets, people make this city so beautiful and different from other cities.
After our arrival at Jaipur hotel, we will have a magical dinner in a typical restaurant in the country. We will go around the Jal Mahal.
When you visit the interior of this splendid palace, you will see its light reflected on the lake, with the stars shining in the sky and feeling the breeze of the hill in your neck, you will be entranced!
We are sure that you will fall asleep tonight, so sweet dreams! Good night! !
Day 4
After breakfast, we will visit the most amazing fort of India Amer Fort "We'll take a ride on elephant back to the fort, located on a hill. Then we will enter the fort, hosted by traditional music at the entrance, there will be a sense of Maharajas!
India, has many different architectural styles: Hindu, Mughal, Jain ... but Rajasthani architecture is one of the most incredible architectures, not only in India but worldwide.
Watch the amazing architecture of the fortress and visit the Sheesh Mahal, the palace of mirrors in the fort will definitely amaze you. The view over the valley of Amer Fort, including hills, lakes, temples, beautiful houses require you to say "Wow!"
Then, we will visit the ‘Kanak Ghati’ :from here the entire Jaipur city looks stunning.
Hawa Mahal (Palace of the wind) was built for the women of the royal family of Jaipur to see the traditional "Krishna painting" every year and to relax during the warm season of Jaipur. We will visit this place just after our lunch. Its architecture is truly unique!
We will also visit the Jantar Mantar which is a ‘world heritage site’. It is a collection of architectural astronomical instruments. It was built in 18th century. There are lots of astonishing information there about the measurement of days, months, years.
After that we will visit Man Sigh Palace Museum which is considered like one of the best museum of Rajasthan.
We will visit the beautiful pink city during this time. It is a unique city, traditionally designed, with beautiful gates, special architecture, nice shops, houses, streets, and people who make this city so beautiful and different from other cities.
We bet you will never forget the evening today!
We will go to "Chauki dhani" What is it? It is a paradise! It is a small village near Jaipur is considered as the most beautiful village in India!
We tour camel here to visit this beautiful village! and you'll be mesmerized by the beautiful houses of the village, by the inhabitants wearing traditional Rajasthani dresses and singing folk songs. The most adventurous thing here is the food! Here we eat traditional food in ancestral Rajasthani style. How is it? It's a surprise for you! Listening to folk music, watching folk dances, magic shows villagers and many others ... before going to sleep.
You might be thinking, as I would have been unhappy if I had not come to this place!
Good night!!
Day 5
After breakfast in the morning and take the long memories of the life of this wonderful land, we are leaving for Agra.
Along the way we will visit an interesting place called "Chand baori" which is located in a village named "Abhaneri".
It is the most beautiful "baori" (step well) in India and the largest in the world. During this visit, you will feel as if you are visiting the MC Escher painting! Hollywood films such as "The Dark Night", "Fall" was filmed here because of its incredible beauty!
After our lunch, we now turn to one of the most sightly architectural indian site called "Fatehpur Sikri." It was the capital of India at the time of the Mughal emperor "Akbar".
Akbar was a great lover of architecture. Let's see here: the architecture of the city, including the magnificent Royal Palace, the palace of queens and amazing gardens.
We will also visit the largest portal in India called "Darwaza of Buland" which is located at the edge of a hill.
From here you can watch the beautiful views of the surrounding villages!
The tomb of the Sufi saint "Chishti" is another masterpiece of architecture. A special feature of this place is that it is composed of elements of a Hindu temple, a Muslim mosque and a Christian church! This site is an evidence of the great soul of India that allows all religions to live in peace and harmony!
We will spend our night in Agra where we will enjoy good regional cuisine.
It is time to visit the Taj Mahal just wait until tomorrow morning! Good night!
Day 3
You certainly have read about elephants in books or seen them on television. What would you feel if you get a chance to communicate with an elephant, or get a chance to feed them with your hands, or get a chance to make a painting on them or get a chance to love them and let them love you by their trunks? All these activities you will do with us! Today morning we'll go to a place where you will have a meeting with elephants! Here the experts will tell you about the lifestyle of elephants. They will also tell you how to communicate with elephants and you will communicate with elephants. When you will stroke elephants and when elephants will stroke you from their trunks the feeling you both will get can't be expressed through words.
Elephants like bananas a lot, you will feed them with the bananas and sugarcane.
Another exciting activity is to paint the elephants!! These elephants will be a walking canvas for you. So you have a chance to show your creative skills of painting (on them). The colors we use are natural colors and easy to wash and give no harm to elephants.
Then you will sit on the elephant and will go for a ride in a beautiful sanctuary. You will have a majestic view while riding on elephants.
Then we will go to visit the Galtaji temples. These are very old temples surrounded by the Arawali hills, the whole area is very beautiful.
Here we will visit one very special temple 'Ramgopalji Temple' which is called Monkey Temple, due to many monkeys in the temple area!! These monkeys are very gentle, friendly and funny. You can even feed them from your hands and in return they will show you some acrobatics!!!!
This temple is made of white marbles and is one of the most beautiful temple in Jaipur. In the evening, the temple is very beautiful. We will visit this temple and also watch the beautiful evening aarti .
Day 6
When we get to the Taj Mahal, you automatically understand why this building is a wonder of the world classified by UNESCO: its architecture, beauty ... we do not have words to describe it.
Here is what the famous Persian poet once said in speaking of the Taj Mahal:
"Agar Firdous baroye zameen ast, Hami Asto, Hami Asto ast"
(If there is a paradise on earth, it is here, it is here, it is here)
Then we will visit another wonderful monument called the Agra Fort, which is another masterpiece of Mughal architecture of the reign.
We will visit the beautiful Hauz Khas village monument, a great work of architecture which blends harmoniously the forest, the largest lake in which float beautiful birds, one of the finest restaurants of Delhi and the art market. This is one of the most beautiful market of Delhi. This market is really a paradise for art lovers. When you visit, you will feel as if you were in a 3D painting. This is the area of fine restaurants, with music played in the narrow streets and beautiful designer boutiques where you can see the beautiful work of famous Indian embroidery. It is possible that you become a stubborn child who has no desire to leave this place! Go!
Day 7
We will reach Rishikesh at the perfect time. It is very beautiful in the morning. Different parts of the planet have different energy levels and here the energy level of this ancient city is very high. We will feel it while taking the traditional tea at the side of Ganga River with morning fresh breeze. After taking the morning breakfast we will start exploring world's one of the oldest inhabited place.
First we will visit Ram Jhoola, a beautiful pedestrian rope-bridge across the Ganga River, where you'll see some Himalayan monkeys, they are very gentle with people as people in India worship them!!
India is well known for its Ashrams, which are small spiritual monasteries. We will visit many of these famous Ashrams where many great saints and sages once (and still) live. Moreover watching some great old temples will be a new and an amazing experience for you.
In Rishikesh you will see lots of pretty himalayan cows also in the street where lots of people feed them with love and cows are very friendly with all people.
We will reach to a beautiful beach of Ganga River where the water is Crystal clean and sand is white like milk!! Actually, Ganga is very clean till Rishikesh and Haridwar but after these places it gets dirty because of the waste material of factories...
On this beautiful beach, if u want we can do some yoga to get some energy!!!
Day 8
Today after taking our breakfast we'll go for a trekking upto 'Neelkanth' which is 14km far. On the way, we will discover a beautiful waterfall!! Also on the way we will see the majestic view of ganga valley and the beautiful range of himalayan mountains.
Today in the evening we will go to Haridwar (nearby to Rishikesh) to watch the famous Gange Aaati of Haridwar, which has been going on for thousands of years. In this celebration, the devotees wave lights and various offerings in respect and appreciation of the Ganga River , which brings life in many parts of India with her waters. She gives water for crops, for cleaning and in so many ways. It is an intrinsic part of India life, that they offer the River this worship as their appreciation.
After the aarti we will visit the beautiful ancient city 'Haridwar'. After having dinner we will move to New Delhi.
After relaxing on the beach, we will come back for our lunch which will be at a unique place called "Chotiwala Restaurant". It is a unique restaurant for indian food where a man in a beautiful colorful costume with a "choti" at the top of his head sits there everyday from morning till evening since more than 50 years. Can you believe it?
Then, we will go to Swarg Ashram to watch the amazing sunset!! Just after that a traditional ritual starts every day, we will go to there to watch it. Watching this old traditional ritual where people sing and burn fire, merge some beautiful little "diyas" in the Ganga River.
Our dinner will be at a special place, hidden in the mountain where while taking our dinner we will take the enjoyment of some music, dance and a great view of little lovely Rishikesh in night which is like many fireflies at the same time.
Surely all the beautiful and unbelievable scenes of this ancient place will float in your dream!!
Good night!!!!
Day 9
Prepare yourself for an amazing day! First, you can take a yoga class taught by an expert in the most beautiful garden in India ‘Lodi Garden’. This class will begin at 6:30 in the morning, so you will wake up very early : we will make the 'Surya Namaskar', that is to say, the sun salutations. Practicing yoga while watching the sunrise in the garden of Lodi is an invigorating experience that will bring you energized for the day. The yoga class is finished, we will have breakfast at the hotel.
After that we will visit the ‘Raj Ghat’ , It is a memorial to ‘Mahatma Gandhi’. We will go there and will give our tribute to the Great man. Raj ghat is just next to Yamuna River.
After that we will visit ‘National Museum’. It is one of the largest museum of india. We will see the articles from pre-historic era to modern works of art. We will see the articles of one of the oldest civilization of the world, of Harappan civilization and the Indus valley civilization. Infact you will see all the history of India.
Then, we will take you directly to the Akshardham temple, located away from the bustle of the city. Here we will take you to a dream world! It is the largest Hindu temple in the world and its architecture is one of the most brilliant of India since no steel was used for its construction! It is entirely based on the traditional technics of construction, old of centuries! Watch the sunset from the temple is a wonderful time of your stay.
Inside the temple, an IMAX film shows the beauty of India through the eyes of a child, narrating amazing facts, with breathtaking scenery and fantastic sound. There is also an open-air museum, ideal by fine weather in a beautiful garden, dedicated to the heroes of India with bronze statues.
We will see a great show of electronic puppets, which depicts the life of Swami ji.
Einstein could not find the machine to travel back in time, but we have it! It is here, in the Akshardham temple, believe us! When you go on a boat trip in the caves of the temple, looking at the heritage of India, 5000 years old history, culture, science .. you'll say yes! This is the most amazing part of the temple.
Then you will enjoy the wonderful sound and light show in which you listen to classical Indian music at a high show color around the fountain.
We guarantee that when you leave this magic place, you will say: "Yes, we were in the dream world! "
Day 10
After a good breakfast at the hotel, it is unfortunately time to leave us and accompany you to the airport.
Departure of the airplane irport Delhi: 1:10 p.m.
Arrival at the airport in Paris: 18hoo the same day.
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This price includes:
-Ticket of flight
-The reception and assistance at the airport by your tour guide.
-Transfers airport / hotel: roundtrip.
-Transportation by car or minibus with driver from 1st day until last day of your trip.
-The services of your guide
-The base-housing double room for 9 nights in hotels.
-all breakfast, lunch and dinner
-entrance and fees in visits
-all activities described
This price does not include:
-Mandatory Visa (about 65 Eur) obtained by you.
-Drinks
-Tips.
-The personal expenses.
-Optional insurance.