Featuring Mahua Kothi Lodge at Bandhavgarh National Park
This unique trip intertwines visits to some of India’s most compelling sights and monuments with game viewing at one of India’s finest wildlife parks. (Pre-embarkation notes: Our group size is considerably smaller than that of other companies’ ostensibly similar trips, we stay in absolutely top-notch hotels throughout, and our leaders are the toppest-notch in India or anywhere.)
After a good look at Delhi, we fly to Varanasi, Hinduism’s most important pilgrimage site, for a stirring, misty, early-morning look into the soul of India from a boat on the sacred Ganges. Then on to the exquisite 10th-century Chandela temples at Khajuraho, which, a Victorian guidebook warned, are “a little warmer than necessary.” Next, to the incomparable Mahua Kothi Lodge and Bandhavgarh National Park, where daytime tiger sightings are more common than at just about any other game preserve on the subcontinent, followed by Gwalior, whose fort is called the Gibraltar of India, and its Man Mandir Palace, built just about the time the Old World was getting acquainted with the New.
Now to a mid-trip look at the inexpressible Taj, “the gem of man’s handiworks,” Lord Curzon called it, “without flaw or blemish, exquisite, irresistible, impossible to criticize, incapable of improvement, the most perfect structure in the world.” We’ll also spend a day or so wandering in Jaipur—“bustling, monkey-filled, oleander pink toytown capital of Rajasthan,” in the words of Louise Nicholson—and then conclude our tour with an elephant safari and gala dinner at a secluded, private resort.
This unique trip intertwines visits to some of India’s most compelling sights and monuments with game viewing at one of India’s finest wildlife parks. (Pre-embarkation notes: Our group size is considerably smaller than that of other companies’ ostensibly similar trips, we stay in absolutely top-notch hotels throughout, and our leaders are the toppest-notch in India or anywhere.)
After a good look at Delhi, we fly to Varanasi, Hinduism’s most important pilgrimage site, for a stirring, misty, early-morning look into the soul of India from a boat on the sacred Ganges. Then on to the exquisite 10th-century Chandela temples at Khajuraho, which, a Victorian guidebook warned, are “a little warmer than necessary.” Next, to the incomparable Mahua Kothi Lodge and Bandhavgarh National Park, where daytime tiger sightings are more common than at just about any other game preserve on the subcontinent, followed by Gwalior, whose fort is called the Gibraltar of India, and its Man Mandir Palace, built just about the time the Old World was getting acquainted with the New.
Now to a mid-trip look at the inexpressible Taj, “the gem of man’s handiworks,” Lord Curzon called it, “without flaw or blemish, exquisite, irresistible, impossible to criticize, incapable of improvement, the most perfect structure in the world.” We’ll also spend a day or so wandering in Jaipur—“bustling, monkey-filled, oleander pink toytown capital of Rajasthan,” in the words of Louise Nicholson—and then conclude our tour with an elephant safari and gala dinner at a secluded, private resort.
Day 1: arrive in Delhi • Day 2: Delhi • Day 3: fly to Varanasi • Day 4: fly to Khajuraho • Day 5: drive to Bandhavgarh • Day 6: Bandhavgarh • Day 7: return to Khajuraho • Day 8: Khajuraho to Gwalior via Orchha • Day 9: Gwalior • Day 10: Gwalior to Agra • Day 11: Agra to Jaipur via Fatehpur Sikri • Day 12: Jaipur • Day 13: Jaipur to Delhi • Day 14: depart Delhi.
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2009 Departures:
14 Days
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Touring
Trip Price:From $8895
- December 20 - January 2
- January 10 - January 23
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