For someone from the West, India provides an authentic adventure - stimulating, absorbing, daunting, sometimes moving a
nd
shocking. Here is one of the world's great dramas; an ancient, vast
and crowded land committed to the most formidably challenging
excersise in mass democracy. It is a spectacle in which hope, pride,
paradox and uncertainty mingle and struggle. It is conducted on the
whole, and to India's credit in the open. The lasting memories of
the land are hospitality, kindness, good humor and generosity. Here
is a society of over a 1000 million people, growing by a million a
month, divided and united by language, caste, religion and regional
loyalties. It has often been described as a functioning anarchy; and
it is in many ways an amiable one, of marvelous fluidity and
tolerance. Indeed, the true Indian motif is not the Taj Mahal, the
elephant or the patient peasant behind the ox drawn plough. It is
the crowd, the ocean of faces in the land of multitudes, endlessly
stirring, pushing and moving. It is in this human circulation that
one sees India's colour, variety, busyness, and, senses also its
power, vitality and grandeur. DELHI
Besides
visiting such tourist sights as Humayun's Tomb (1586), the Qutab
Minar, Red Fort and the regular sites, we also try to get to the
soul of this vibrant city. We would as would the natives do, ride 3 wheel cycle rickshaws through the narrow, bustling and Colourful streets of Old Delhi, brief visit to a progressive Hindu temple to witness the evening prayer service and the spiritual ambience of the institute or visit an Indian family for a taste of traditional Indian hospitality as well as traditional Indian food. You will have an opportunity to interact with different generations of a typical Indian middle class family and learn more about India and Indians. The evening is designed as an effort to give a " human feel" to the country you are visiting - not just a tourist overview.
JAIPUR
In
a land steeped with heritage, picturesque with exquisite
architecture, in a state vibrant with heroic memories and romance,
lies the dream city of Jaipur . The people are dynamic, martial and,
need we say it, colourful. Here every walk through the by lanes is a
walk through history. Indeed, Jaipur could be compared to a vast
open-air museum. Pink turbans jostle with saffron 'odhinis' (ladies
scarves). Camel buggies and elephants are as commonly found as motor
cars and buses…..Besides riding an elephant to top of the
majestic Amber Fort and a guided tour of the impressive City palace
and the incredible observatory, in Jaipur, we are also looking for
escorted walks with our guide. The city is best explored on foot and
the inquisitive visitor willing to go into the rastaas (Streets) and
galis (inner lanes) can feel the spirit of the city. There's an
amazing appeal to Jaipur's colorful bazaars, beautifully laid out
gardens & parks. Jaipur, popularly known as Pinkcity, was built
in 1727 AD in accordance with Shilp Shastra - an ancient Hindu
treatise on architecture….. Jaipur is a shopper's Paradise.
Whether you are looking for jewellery, handmade fabrics, handmade
carpets , handmade blue pottery or any crafts of any order. We would
create an opportunity and time to shop for these while in Jaipur
today. Also, we would have escorted walks through popular bazaars of
the city ; even the pavements have shops of all order like a
pavement barber or more seriously a pavement dentist - their 'wares'
including a laughing set of dentures proudly displayed on the
pavement . We would also suggest a visit to CHOKHI DHANI on
the outskirts of the city where an ethnic village atmosphere is
recreated each evening with thousands of oil lamps, folk dancers,
acrobats, snake charmers, puppeteers, etcKOLKATA
Fashioned
by the colonial British in the manner of a grand European
capital--yet now set in one of the poorest and most overpopulated
regions of India--Calcutta has grown into a city of sharp contrasts
and contradictions. Calcutta has had to assimilate strong European
influences and overcome the limitations of its colonial legacy in
order to find its own unique identity. In the process it created an
amalgam of East and West that found its expression in the life and
works of the 19th-century Bengali elite and its most noteworthy
figure, the poet and mystic Rabindranath Tagore. This largest and
most vibrant of Indian cities thrives amidst seemingly
insurmountable economic, social, and political problems. Its
citizens exhibit a great joie de vivre that is demonstrated in a
penchant for art and culture and a level of intellectual vitality
and political awareness unsurpassed in the rest of the country. No
other Indian city can draw the kinds of crowds that throng to
Calcutta's book fairs, art exhibitions, and concerts. The city's
energy, penetrates even to the meanest of slums, as a large number
of Calcuttans sincerely support the efforts of Mother Teresa and her
missionaries who minister to the poor and suffering. In short,
Calcutta remains an enigma to many Indians as well as to foreigners.
It continues to puzzle newcomers and to arouse an abiding nostalgia
in the minds of those who have lived there. Our tour and visits in
this city would be an attempt to search the soul of this city and in
someways uplift ourselves from within. 
KHAJURAHO
Khajuraho is world famous for its western group of temples depicting erotic sculptures of love making images of Gods and Goddesses and celestial Nymphs. The sexual fantasies displayed in the sculptures are mind boggling. It speaks very highly of the artistic creativity and imagination of the sculptors