Pushkar Fair Tour - Pushkar Camel Fair Tour - Pushkar Fair Tour Package

Day 01 Arrive Delhi
In the morning have your breakfast and be ready to explore Delhi, the capital of kingdoms and empires. Delhi is no fairytale city but a city where dreams come to reality. Its strategic location was one of the prime reasons why successive dynasties chose it as their seat of power. Delhi is truly a symbol of the old and the new; a blend of ancient well preserved monuments and temples along with jam-packed burger joints and up market shopping malls.

Old Delhi owes its origins to the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan. The old city area has monuments, and narrow crowded streets within its granite walls and bustling bazaars. The main structure is the Red fort built of red sandstone; it houses the famous Diwan-e-khas, the beautiful audience chamber where the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan held court, seated on the peacock throne. Board the Rickshaw Ride, for a unique experience through Chandni Chowk or the silver street, experiencing the sights and sounds of this busy avenue heading west from the Red fort. Opposite the fort is the largest mosque in India - the Jama Masjid and as you walk down its steps, you walk into the teeming market place famous for brocades, braids, silver, manuscripts etc.

Continuing the tour of Old Delhi, visit Raj Ghat (where the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi was cremated).

Post lunch, commence the tour of New Delhi . Drive past the state Government buildings designed by Lutyens, visiting Rajpath leading up from India gate the war memorial arch, up to the imposing presidential palace - the Rashtrapati Bhawan - built on Raisina hill and flanked by the secretariat buildings.

Landscaped parks and formal gardens surround old monuments all over the city such as the mausoleum of Humayun.

End the tour at the tower Minaret of Qutab Minar. Here you can see an amazing 2000 yrs old pure iron pillar erected in 4 A.D., which has never rusted.

Day 03 Delhi - Ajmer - Pushkar
Morning transfer to the railway station to board the train to Ajmer. Upon arrival, drive to Pushkar, check in at a tented camp. Overnight at hotel/ tented camp.

Day 04 & 05 Pushkar
Day free to attend the Pushkar fair. Overnight at tented camp / hotel.

Day 06 Pushkar - Jaipur
After breakfast drive to Jaipur - Known to many as the Pink City, its buildings were painted on the instruction of the Maharajah - rosy pink being the color associated with hospitality in Rajasthan, India. Jaipur, the fabled "pink city" of the desert is named after Jai Singh, the former Maharaja of Jaipur. This is the only city in the world symbolizing the nine divisions of the universe through the nine rectangular sectors subdividing it.

Day 07 Jaipur
Morning at 0800Hrs. The guide shall meet you at the hotel to take you onto the city tour of the Pink city, when you travel to Rajasthan, India. Visit the impressive Amber Fort (12 Kms. from Jaipur). At the foot of the hill, mount an elephant for the slow but steady climb upto the main gate.

After a leisurely breakfast, visit the majestic Amber Fort, the one that cannot be easily described. You ride up on elephants to the former capital of the royals set against the backdrop of the wooded hills. Visit the Hawa Mahal (the ornamental facade of this "palace of winds" is a landmark in Jaipur. This five storey structure of pink sandstone encrusted with fine trellis work and balconies has 953 niches and windows.) Open air Jantar Mantar - Royal observatory (built in the 17th century by Jai Singh - with a sundial 90 ft. High; Albert museum (the museum amidst the Ram Niwas palace gardens founded in 1876 with a large collection of antiques). Enjoy a stroll through the colourful Johari bazaar (the main bazaar in the old city, for jewellery and saris).

In the evening enjoy your dinner at Chokhi Dhani (an ethnic village resort) where you will have an idea of the village life of Rajasthan. Enjoy various traditional Rajasthani dances, puppet show and various other cultural activities, whihc you can enjoy when you travel to Rajasthan, India.

Day 08 Jaipur - Agra
After breakfast continue your journey to the next destination - The land of the Taj Mahal- Agra. Enroute visit Fatehpur Sikri - the deserted city built by Emperor Akbar.

Reach Agra and check in at the hotel.

Day 09 Agra
After breakfast visit Agra Fort, a hilltop citadel with fabulous courtyards, fountains and gates. Post lunch tour of Itimad-ud-Daulah's tomb, or the 'Baby Taj'. Less visited but much admired, it features striking mosaics inlaid with sparkling stones.