North India Tour with Rajasthan

Day 01: Paris - Delhi (Flight)
Arrival at the airport in the evening interntaional Delhi. Home and transfer to hotel Park Land. Overnight at hotel.

Day 02: Delhi - Mandawa (Shekhawati Region): (265 kms 6 hrs)
After breakfast, depart ver the Shekhawati region. The region famous for its magnificent havelis (mansions of nobility) built by merchants in the area. Arrival at Mandawa and transfer to hotel.

After lunch visit Mandawa, a small bustling village: the Binsidhar Newatia Haveli and the Gulab Rai Ladia Haveli. Continuatuion on Mahansar, peaceful village lies a Shekhwati the splendors of the Chand Ki Haveli, home of a famous jeweler and selling opium of the nineteenth century. Overnight at hotel.

Day 03: Mandawa (Shekhawati Region) - Bikaner: (200 kms 4 hours)
Breakfast. Road to Bikaner, one of the largest caravan cities of the region. Discovery of the Junagarh Fort, a picturesque complex of palaces linked by courtyards, balconies and kiosks finenement carved. After the visit of Fort Deshnoke visit.

About thirty kilometers from the city, there is the Karni Mata temple, dedicated to the mystic who blessed the establishment of the state by Rao Bikaji. The temple is also sometimes called temple of rats as the animal is revered and successful in large numbers in the temple. Indeed, the legend says that the souls of the devotees of Karni Mata are embodied in rats. After the visit back to Bikaner. Overnight at hotel.

Day 04: Bikaner - Jaisalmer: (330 kms 6 hrs)
After breakfast, route to Jaisalmer, romantic city, seeming output unchanged medieval Rajput. Long road in the middle of the Thar desert. Approaching Phalodi, it is not uncommon to see many antelope roadside. Check in after beginning of noon to Jaisalmer, which is seen by far dominate the desert. Arriving to Hotel facility. Overnight at hotel.

Day 05: Jaisalmer:
Tour of Jaisalmer, the city-fortress, standing like a architectural dream in the middle of barren desert. Walk through the fort and visit the palaces and Jain temples. We then borrow small lively streets of the lower town and visit the magnificent Havelis.
The city was founded in 1156 by a Rajput Raja Bhatti clan named Deoraj and occasionally takes the name of Rao Jaisal. The Raja of Jaisalmer are after him the title of Rawal or Maharawal. It owes its historical importance and its wealth to its role caravannière step on the road between India and Persia, Arabia and the West. End of twelve o'clock after an excursion to Sam for a ride a camel and witness the sunset Soliel on the dunes in the Thar desert. Early evening back to Jaisalmer. Overnight at hotel.

Day 06: Jaisalmer - Jodhpur: (285 kms 5 hours)
After breakfast. Road to Jodhpur. Arrive and transfer to hotel. Start by visiting the fortress Meherangarth, headquarters maharajahs, enthroned on a crag in the middle of the city. Hence, the view is splendid: we see the wall of the old city, which winds through streets lined with artisan shops. ENSUT visit the old city, leaving from the Clock Tower, and at his feet, Sardar Market.

Jodhpur is the city founded by Rao Jodha, chief of the clan of Rathore in 1459, is the blue city of Rajasthan. The vast majority of houses are painted blue or indigo, originally to distinguish the houses of Brahmins, and to repel the heat and mosquitoes. Overnight at hotel.

Day 07: Jodhpur - Ranakpur - Udaipur: (270 kms 6 hours)
After breakfast early morning. Route towards Udaipur, dubbed the''Venice of the East'', built around Lake Pichola and surrounded by ridges. Short step to Ranakpur and its temple of Adinath Jain, imposing as a cathedral and as a jewel carved ivory. Visit and lunch. Road in the direction of Udaipur through the beautiful mountain scenery of Mewar. Installation and overnight stay.

Day 08: Udaipur:
Discover the romantic city of Udaipur, situated on Lake Pichola. A cruise will take you to the Palace, the largest palace complex in Rajasthan, with superb collections of art objects. Then visit the temple of Indo-Aryan Jagdish.
In 1567, the Mughal emperor Akbar sacked for the third time the fortress of Chittorgarh, the capital of Mewar. Rana Udai Singh II then fled with his clan and took refuge in the ravines of Aravalli Range. One day he was hunting on Lake Pichola, he met a sadhu in meditation in which he asks council to build his new capital. The sage replied that the place seemed perfect, in the countryside near a lake, protected by the relief.

Udai then founded his new capital at this point far less vulnerable than Chittorgarh and gave it its name. Udai Singh died in 1572 and his son, Pratap ascended the throne. He defended the city against several attacks and Mughal must again take refuge in the hills to escape death. He resumed, however the city and the greater part of its territory, but fail to get home to his family, Chittorgarh. The Mewar and will never be s ub Muslim suzerainty. If after twelve o'clock to a ballad on Lake Pichola to watch the sunset Soliel and to visit the islands of Jag Mandir Palace. Overnight at hotel.

Day 09: Udaipur - Pushkar: (280 kms 5 hours)
Early morning departure towards Pushkar, a small peaceful village built around a sacred lake, famous place of pilgrimage for Hindus. Arriving late in the day. Visit of the town, walk to neighboring villages. Overnight at hotel.

Day 10: Pushkar - Jaipur: (145 kms 3 hours)
After breakfast departure towards arriving Jaipur.En facility to Hotel Afternoon free to stroll in the bazaars of Jaipur. Overnight at the Hotel.

Day 11: Jaipur:
Early morning visit the ancient capital of Amber. Dedicated to the discovery of Amber Fort with the rise in elephant led by a turbaned mahout to the top of the ramparts. Visit the Palace and Temple of Kali, which takes place every morning religious ceremony. Afternoon spent visiting the Maharaja's Palace, still inhabited by the royal family and part of which serves as a museum, Rawal Mahal or Palace of Winds and finely carved facade designed to protect the beauty of women prying eyes, and beautiful astronomical observatory of Maharaja Jai Singh II worthy of a novel by Jules Verne!. Afternoon Jaipur to walk to the observatory to the palace with a series of courses and lodges, with fine collections of weapons and miniatures. Overnight at the Hotel.

Day 12 Jaipur - Fatehpur Sikri - Agra (245 kms 6 hrs)
Morning drive to Agra. Enroute we stop at the ghost town of Fatehpur Sikri, 40 km west of Agra. This ancient city, built by Emperor Akbar in 1659, was later abandoned because of lack of water. We see the graceful buildings composing this noble city, including the Jama Masjid, the tomb of Salim Christi, Panch Mahal and other palaces. Continuation worm Agra, arrival and transfer to hotel. Overnight at hotel.

Day 13: Agra - Delhi (205 kms 4 hours)
The Matinee devoted to visiting the city: the Red Fort, a splendid residence of the Mughal emperors with its many palaces, the mausoleum of Itmad ud Daulah, built in 1626 on the other side of the Yamuna by Nur Jahan, the Persian poet wife Jahangir, in memory of his père.Visite the Taj Mahal, the most famous monument of India, built by Emperor Shah Jehan between 1632 and 1648, in memory of his favorite wife Mumtaz Mahal. In the after Noon Departure to visit Sikandara, located 12kms from Agra or is the Tomb of Akbar built by himself in the 16th. Continue after the visit to Delhi. On arrival transfer to the Hotel. Dinner and overnight. Overnight at hotel.

Day 14: Delhi - Simla
Early morning after breakfast, headed for Shimla. Crossing the Sutlej valley, we reach the south Simla, perched at 2,200 meters altitude. Discovered in the early nineteenth century by an officer looking for a break right for his company, the site was about fifty years later, the summer capital of British administration, which followed by the court of vice kings India, to forget the heat and the miasma of Calcutta in the cool and green. Very quickly, despite difficult access to the construction of the railway, the magnificent buildings multiplied.

In surveying the Mall and Ridge, the main arteries of the city, formerly forbidden to natives, we will dive into the atmosphere of England in the nineteenth century church, theater, library, lost royal palace in the heart of magnificent gardens, everything here evokes and celebrates the glory and fortune of the Raj, the British Empire. But Simla is now the capital of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh and the State Museum has a collection of representative works of art in the region. Dinner. Overnight at hotel. Overnight at hotel.

Day 15: Simla - Manali (240 kms 6 hrs)
After breakfast depart by road to Manali. After following the road clinging to the slopes of the Himalayas, we shall go down to the north in the valley of Kulu, the former Kulanthapitha, "the end of the habitable world." Mythical valley whose name sings in the ear of every Indian, evoking enchanting orchards, a climate of great sweetness (at least in summer) and a rich natural wildlife. Installation and arriving at the hotel. Manali (2050 m) is the last major village before the rough road across the Himalayas to Ladakh. Again, many Tibetan refugees are and visit their monastery near the central market. But it is in the old village, untouched by the recent construction, we will taste the best charm of mountain habitats, around which the inhabitants have preserved their ancestral way of life. A little higher in the forest, Hidimba Devi temple, built in the sixteenth century on a rock supposed to be the seat of the powerful goddess Hidimba, offers one of the finest surviving examples of wooden architecture of these regions, the main originality lies in the superposition of different levels of roofs. The sculptures are excellent and the atmosphere in striking. Overnight at hotel.

Day 16: Manali - Naggar - Manali (25 kms 1 hr)
After breakfast, depart for Naggar (1760 m). Former capital of the Rajas of Kulu until the seventeenth century, Naggar was an important religious center: According to legend, the gods of the valley gathered there on a stone table carried by a swarm of bees in the temple Jagt Patt , at the heart of the castle of the fifteenth century. At the foot of the fortress near the local bazaar, we visit the temple of Gaurishankar, founded in the twelfth century and dedicated to Shiva and that of Chaturbhuj, dedicated to Vishnu, before discovering the museum housed in the former home of Gustav Roerich , Russian painter of the early twentieth century, whose memory attached to the creations of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris in 1909 and passed by the last years of his life. On the way back we stop at Katraine at the foot of Baragarh peak (3325 m) and Jagatsukh, another ancient capital, to visit the Shiva temple, topped by a sikkhara and that of Gayatri Devi, new evidence of the importance of worship women in the valley. Back in Manali. Overnight at hotel.

Day 17: Manali - Dharamshala (210 kms 6 hrs)
After breakfast, depart for Dharamsala.En arrival transfer to hotel.
Dharamsala, a small British garrison town and resort, nestled against the hills, was destroyed in 1905 by an earthquake and abandoned. The population is transferred into the valley, where the present town of Dharamsala, the Indian market town without character. But in 1960, the Dalai Lama in exile was offered as a place of residence site of the destroyed city, become "Mac Leo Ganj", or "Upper Dharamsala. Here since it seeks to preserve Tibetan culture and to organize the lives of his countrymen who followed him here. Below the village, he built the ministries of a government in exile that no state has refused to recognize. Single building built in traditional Tibetan style, the National Archives have a museum that exhibits some remarkable pieces, arrived in the luggage of exiles.

In the village itself, two worlds intertwine: modernity required of a people who must invent its future commitment to a strong tradition of nurturing. In temples, on the path of "Chora" which surrounds the invisible remains of the Dalai Lama, the fervor and devotion are the same as those that are perceived to Lhasa around the great temple of Jokhang.
Only anachronistic relic of a past gone forever, just before the village church of St. Jean du Desert lies in the lush forest as the ultimate guardian of English tombs which surround it, including that of Lord Elgin, Vice King of the Indies, which was particularly fond of this place. Overnight at hotel. Overnight at hotel.

Day 18: Dharamshala
Free day for profiterde this place and stroll in the bazaars and villages. Dinner. Overnight at hotel. . Overnight at hotel.

Day 19: Dharamshala - Amritsar (180 kms 5 hours)
After breakfast depart by road to Amritsar, the high holy place to the Sikhs. On arrival transfer to hotel. In the afternoon we visit the old city of Amritsar, which harbors in its heart the Golden Temple, the sacred shrine of the Sikh religion. At the center of the lake where it is reflected, light streams down the marble and gold which converges towards the crowd of pilgrims. Inside, the walls adorned with inlays of precious stones and fine paintings, they all gather to listen to musicians and singers, who, night and day, chanting verses from the Adi Grant, the book collects sacred teachings left by the founding gurus of Sikhism. Places of worship, including the desecration took the lives of Indira Gandhi, the building and its surroundings are also places of memory and life: the museum traces a history of bloody persecution, the kitchen prepares daily meals for thousands of the faithful or just visitors and the Akal Takht welcomes religious deliberations of parliament.

As we stroll through the city, then we will discover the Durgiana Mandir, a small temple dedicated to Hindu goddess Durga, miniature replica of the Golden Temple, and the Jallianwala Bagh garden, romantic part of a dramatic episode in the fight for Independence, where in 1919, the British fired on an unarmed crowd, cornered in a dead end, killing close to 400 victims. By late afternoon, we will walk in another garden, the Ram Bagh, designed around a small palace of the nineteenth century. Overnight at Hotel.

Day 20: Amritsar - Delhi
After breakfast, headed for Delhi. Arrival in after lunch and free time to the latest purchases. Start the evening transfer to local restaurant for a farewell dinner. After dinner transfer to airport for International flight home.

Day 21: Delhi - Paris (Flight)
Return flight.

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