Tour 4. Golden Triangle+Holy Ganga: Delhi, Jaipur, Agra, Varanasi. 6 days.

In this tour: the best sights of Golden Triangle: Taj Mahal, Forts, palaces, bazars, Indian street animals, colorful women, smell of incenses, traditional food and so on. In addition: the Holy Varanasi – one of the oldest cities in the world, the city of Shiva, the capital of Hinduism, the city where Hindu people coming to pray and dye. Here a lot of cremations take place every day and fire never stops.

Program.

Day 1. Delhi.

Pick-up from airport. Depends on time of your flight you can sleep in Delhi hotel or start program straightly from the airport.

Today we will visit the best places in Delhi:

Gurudwara Bangla Sahib – beautiful temple of Sikh people with holy lake and canteen where everyone can have free food.

Colonial center with government buildings (Parliament, President Palace) and Indian Gate.

Qutub Minar – historical place with first mosque of India made from the pieces of 27^th hindu temples and highest minaret.

Lotus temple – famous futuristic temple for meditation and pray for all religions followers.

Akchardham –white temple, one of the biggest and most beautiful temples with numerous amount of sculptures

Cycle-rickshaw tour by the streets of one of the most interesting bazars in Delhi – Chandi-chowk, where you can see the real Indian life. Or we will have a walk by alive streets of Delhi.

Night in Delhi hotel.

Day 2. Delhi-Jaipur.

Transfer to the capital of Rajasthan – Jaipur city (4-5 hours way).

After check-in in hotel and short rest, we will start sightseeing: the City Palace where currently raja’s family live, Jantar Mantar – ancient observatory and famous Palace of Winds – Hawa mahal (from the side).

Then we will have a walk by the streets of the Pink-city with ancient buildings, alive bazars, rickshaws, animals and all colors of Rajasthan daily life.

Night in Jaipur hotel.

Day 3. Jaipur-Agra.

After breakfast, we will visit the Amber Fort with beautiful maharaja palace inside. If we are lucky, we will find fakirs with cobras and street musicians. To the fort, you can come up by elephants.

Then we will see narrow streets of old city Amer and visit there the ancient Step-well.

On the way back to the Jaipur we will make a stop near the beautiful lake to have a walk and take a photo of the water-palace – Jal-Mahal.

Transfer to Agra (4-5 hours way), night in Agra hotel.

Day 4. Agra.

Today we have to wake-up early morning – to see beautiful Taj Mahal – symbol of great love – in the morning light.

Later we are moving to other interesting places of Agra: Agra Fort, Itimad-ud-Daulah called by locals as a Baby Taj and show-room-workshop where we can see ancient technologies used to work with marble.

Our next destination is an ancient holy city Varanasi. We can go there by afternoon flight or night train.

In case of train in the evening you can see Kalakriti show of Agra.

Night in Varanasi hotel or in train.

Day 5. Varanasi.

After breakfast, we will start to explorer the city: streets, temples, bazars. We will visit Sarnath – the important pilgrimage site with Buddhism stupa outside of Varanasi city. Here Lord Buddha first taught his followers.

In the evening, we will see one of the most interesting ceremony in India: Ganga aarti when priests pray to the Holy Ganga River.

Night in Varanasi hotel.

Day 6. Varanasi-Delhi.

Today we wake up early to see sunrise from the boat sailing the Ganga.

We will see from the boat all Ghats including Burning ghat where cremation process takes place.

After boating, we will walk by Ghats and spend time in narrow streets of old Varanasi to see the daily life and reality of Hinduism.

Transfer to the airport for Delhi flight. Other option – to go to Delhi by train.

In Delhi, we will provide you transfer to the hotel and then to the airport – timing depends on your future plans.