Maharajas & Sadhus - Rajasthan & Varanasi Tour (All Inclusive with domestic flights)

Breakfast at the hotel and transfer to the airport. Flight to Udaipur. Arrival in Udaipur and meet with our local representative.Visit of Udaipur and the City Palace, now transformed into a museum: from the palace you can enjoy a vast panorama of Lake Pichola.

The palace offers innumerable wonders and curiosities, such as the twenty stables for the elephants, the Peacock courtyard, designed with thousands of pieces of colored glasses and the dazzling riches of the prince's apartment. The eastern shore of the lake is occupied by the palace, the southern one hosts a luxuriant garden, while wide steps leading to the shore rise on the northern one.

At the center of the lake there are two islets, reachable by boat, with the former summer residences of the princes, in granite and white marble. One of these is the Lake Palace, now transformed into a princely hotel. Sunset boat ride on Lake Pichola with a stop at Jag Mandir Island. Dinner and overnight.

Inclusions: Internal Flight, Accommodation, Breakfast, Dinner, Transportation, Tour Guide, Entrance Fees
Highlight: City Palace, Boat ride in Lake Pichola.

Situated on the shores of Lake Pichola, Udaipur was founded in 1568 by Maharaja Udai Singh II Udaipur is a perfect example of typical rajput Style Architecture in all its elegance. In the old part of the city You Find. Palaces, temples and hllaveli of all kinds, from the simplest to the most complex and extravagant nature. Udaipur boasts a rich cultural heritage, It Boast Itself as a center of expressive arts, painting, miniatures and crafts. Morning Excursion to EKLINGJI to visit the Holy Temple of Udaipur Royal Family, Dedicated to Lord SHIVA. Later Visit the Eighth Century Nagda Temples, a Fine Example of Indo Aryan style of Architecture. Return to the city and Visit The Famous City Palace with its numerous buildings, the Museum of the local Maharana (the most powerful Maharaja of Rajasthan) and the majestic Jagdish Temple seventeenth century Temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu. Afternoon at Leisure, Optional Excursion to Boat Ride in Lake Pichola. For more options Please check the list of optional Activities. Return to the hotel for overnight stay in Udaipur. 

Inclusions : Accommodation, Breakfast , Transport, Tourist Guide, Entrance fees

Highlights : Morning Excursion to Eklingji, Holy Temple, Nagda Temple, City Palace, Museum, Jagdish Temple

Departure for Jodhpur. Along the way we visit the temples of Ranakpur, and especially a Jain temple inserted in a splendid and isolated valley. Like all the buildings of this cult, the temple display stunning magnificence and richness of decoration, sometimes so exuberant as to seem excessive. It is one of the most important Indian masterpieces of Jainism.

Arrival and walking tour in the old city of Jodhpur and in the market of fabrics and spices. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Inclusions: Accommodation, Breakfast, Dinner, Transport, Tourist Guide, Entrance fees
Highlight: Temples of Ranakpur

Early morning, walk in the blue city to see the old houses and also the old part. Continue to visit the Mehrangarh fort built in the 15th century, sentinel at the gates of the Thar Desert, with walls lined with Indian, Persian and Turkish cannons since centuries. Inside the fort are courtyards and palaces that house extraordinary collections of objects connected with Indian royalty, including a series of howdahs, seats for traveling on the back of elephants, miniatures from various schools of painting, furniture, clothing and armor.

From the Fort, built on top of a rock that rises right in the center of Jodhpur, you can enjoy a splendid view of the old city, with its palaces and houses with a characteristic light blue color. Continue with the visit of the Jaswant Thada mausoleum, built in white marble.

Departure for Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan called the "Pink City". Jaipur has strong contrasts and chaotic but colorful traffic: carts loaded with fruit pulled by camels make their way through the streets cluttered with cars, rickshaws, bicycles, mopeds and pedestrians trying to juggle as best they can. Men in Rajput costumes sport colorful turbans and slicked mustaches, arguing heatedly outside restaurants serving spaghetti Bolognese and American ice cream. Strong colors dominate the streets of the lively bazaars, from those of the saris to those of a thousand goods for sale. The atmosphere is particularly suggestive in the evening, when the buildings painted in pink and ocher magically reflect the light of the sunset. Arrival and accommodation at the hotel. Dinner and overnight.

Inclusions: Accommodation, Breakfast, Dinner, Transport, Tourist Guide, Entrance fees
Highlight: The blue city, Mehrangarh fort

Breakfast. Full day dedicated to the visit of the "pink city", capital of Rajasthan, a commercial and tourist hub of the highest order, which todayis  a center of at least 1,300,000 people, located in a semi-desert area. Jaipur strikes because it is architecturally ordered according to precise geometries. It is famous for its pink sandstone buildings, but it seems that the name derives from an episode of 1876, when Jaipur was repainted in pink for the visit of the Prince of Wales.

The first visit will be made to the Amber Fort, 11 km away from Jaipur. The last stretch of ascent to the Fort is crossed by placid elephants to better immerse in  the spirit of the place. Inside the walls you will find palaces and pavilions of refined beauty and the small temple of the Goddess Kali. Then visit the city: the Observatory, full of exceptional instruments and where is the "Sancrat" (the Prince of the Meridian), a 90-foot tall gnomon; the Palace of Winds, which stands on one of the main streets of the city, a curious, elaborate and imaginative building but at the same time a limpid example of oriental art built also with the "desert stone"; and finally visit the Maharaja Palace dating back to 1570.

Today in the evening we visit the house of an Indian family to understand a little Indian traditions, life and habits and take tea together. You can even have dinner together. Overnight.

Drive to Agra. Stop for a visit of Abhaneri, an 8th century well palace founded in a village. Then visit the city of Fatehpur Sikri, the abandoned city built by the greatest emperor of the Mughal dynasty, Akbar. Proceed to Agra. Afternoon visit the wonderful Taj Mahal, the jewel of Islamic architecture. Overnight.

Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to Delhi and the airport for departure by scheduled flight to Varanasi.
Arrival, processing of airport formalities and meeting with our local organization.
Transfer to the hotel and accommodation in the reserved rooms.

Varanasi, one of the oldest cities on the planet and one of the seven holy cities of Hinduism, is known as "the city of life". According to the legend Varanasi, or Benares as the British called it unable to pronounce its splendid name,t was founded by Shiva. The first traces of urban settlements date back to the 11th century BC. Lying on the banks of the sacred river Ganges, Varanasi is the sacred place from which everything originates and to which everything returns. For the Hindu faithful, Varanasi is the place where one rejoins the divine, where one can atone for one's sins, where one can free oneself from the endless cycle of reincarnations ...

Afternoon dedicated to the Buddhist site of Sarnath (12 km - 30 minutes), one of the most revered places of Buddhism in the world, where, in ìGazelle Park, the Buddha Sakyamuni (the Enlightened) revealed for the first time the teachings of Buddhist knowledge.

In the evening, a suggestive excursion on the ghats is scheduled, for you to attend the Aarti Puja, a ceremony of light on the banks of the Ganges, during which the brahmins celebrate the river and thank the deities with sacred songs and music. Return to the hotel and overnight.