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On the road to Rajasthan: tailor-made trip to India

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From : 4 290 € / person
Duration: 14 days / 11 nights

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The state of Rajasthan, located between the Thar Desert, the Ganges Valley and the Punjab steppes, is home to some of India's most magnificent palaces and citadels. Discover this magnificent country in an original and exciting way: by bicycle, 4×4, Royal Enfield motorcycle, train, vintage car or camel. A unique experience in northern India! Take advantage of local English-speaking guides throughout your stay. Comfort, central locations and exceptional accommodation will be on the menu for the 5* luxury version of this itinerary in India. Enjoy a magical immersion for those visiting India for the first time for 13 days and 11 nights.

During this tailor-made trip to India, you will cross the following regions:

  • Delhi.
  • Jodhpur
  • Jaisalmer
  • Ranakpur
  • Udaipur
  • Jaipur.
  • Agra

Travel to a mythical country 

Start with Delhi where you have the option to cycle through Old Delhi and New Delhi. In Old Delhi, ride the bustling, colorful shopping streets by rickshaw to the Red Fort; a veritable fortress with Mongolian-inspired architecture. Take the time to admire the Gateway of India as well as the Parliament and the Tomb of Humayun. In Jodhpur, visit Meherangarh Fortress, Jawswant Thada, Toorji Ka Jhalra and Rao Jodha Desert Rock Park. Jaisalmer, the "golden city" once controlled the passage of many caravans. Arriving, your first sight is of the fortified citadel emerging from the horizon, impressive with its massive walls and towers. Ranakpur has one of the finest and largest Jain buildings in India. It covers an area of ​​3 square meters and has no less than 600 rooms, 29 pillars, none of which are sculpted identically, and some 1 domes. 

India; the land of royalty

Udaipur is located on a lake and has an imposing citadel. Its bastions and its ramparts covered with a golden softness at sunset is a spectacle worthy of the "Thousand and One Nights". Ideally located on the caravan route between India and Central Asia, its history and its past development are linked to trade which enriched merchants and townspeople. The city design of Jaipur is based on Hindu architecture, with five main gates leading to a grid of streets at right angles. In Agra, don't miss the famous Taj Mahal.

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How to prepare for your stay in India?

To go to India, you will need:

  • A valid passport (at least 6 months after the planned return), and with 3 blank pages (including 2 facing each other);
  • An e-Tourist visa (maximum 60 days; single-entry visa; online formalities);

or Regular Visa (multiple entry visa, which also allows you to request special permits for Sikkim).

When to make a tailor-made trip to India?

We recommend that you make your tailor-made tour from October to March in order to benefit from the cool season.

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Prices starting from 3 325 € TTC per person (2 base, French speaking guide, 4 * hotels)
Prices starting from 6 695 € TTC per person (2 base, French speaking guide, 5 * Luxury hotels)

This price includes:

  • France / India / France international flights in economy class with Emirates
  • Airport taxes (350 euros to date)
  • Accommodation in 4 * hotels for 10 nights in double room and breakfast
  • All transfers of guided tours mentioned in the program
  • The accompaniment of a French-speaking guide during the mentioned visits
  • The following activities: rickshaw tour in Delhi and Jaipur, camel riding in Jaisalmer, boat tour at Pichola Lake in Udaipur and Jeep tour at Amber Fort.
  • One bottle of water per person per day
  • Local assistance at destination
  • Tourist taxes

This price does not include:

  • Personal expenses and tips
  • Meals not mentioned in the program
  • Excursions not mentioned

Prices from, per person, based on a double room, subject to availability at the time of booking.

Prices valid for all departures included in September 2024. 

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  • Formalities and visa

The French are subject to a visa to stay in India.
Since the 1er May 2015, Indian authorities have put in place a visa-issuing device on arrival, called "e-Tourist visa".

This “e-visa” must be requested online after registration of the application (https://indianvisaonline.gov.in/visa/tvoa.html) and payment of the application fees. 

For more information : https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/conseils-aux-voyageurs/conseils-par-pays/inde/

  • Health (mandatory vaccines, recommended vaccines)

No vaccination is compulsory. Vaccines against diphtheria and tetanus, typhoid fever, and hepatitis A and B are recommended.

  • Currency and official language

The currency is the Indian Rupee (INR). 1.00 € = 71,9749 INR

The official language is Hindi.

  • Useful addresses

French Embassy  
2 / 50-E Shantipath - Chanakyapuri
New Delhi
Phone: +91 11 43 19 61 00

Embassy of India
15, rue Alfred Dehodencq
75016 Paris
Phone: 01.40.50.70.70

Best season to make a tailor-made trip to India

India enjoys a very varied climate from one region to another. However, we can distinguish three seasons: a hot season, a wetter season and a colder season. Although the temperatures are different depending on the region visited, we recommend the period from November to February, which is mild in most of the country.

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Delhi.

Reception at Delhi airport by our local French-speaking partner, transfer to your hotel.

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Delhi.

In the morning, departure for the visit of Old Delhi by rickshaw. From the Chandni Chowk shopping district, your walk will take you to the Red Fort (exterior view), the Jama Masjid mosque, a Jain temple ...
You will stop in the small narrow streets teeming with people dedicated to spices, floral decoration, jewelry ... A unique opportunity to share the life of the inhabitants of this still so authentic district.

Panoramic tour of New Delhi: large and spacious, it includes many embassies and administrative buildings.

Passage through Rajpath Royal WayWide avenue flanked by decorative ponds is a work of the architect of New Delhi, Luytens and the parade theater at the annual celebration of the Republic on January 26.

At both ends are the East India Gate (triumphal arch) and the Rashtrapati Bhawan, the former residence of the Viceroy, which is currently home to the president.

Visit to the Gurudwara temple which will not only fill you with serenity but also allow you to discover this particular religion that is Sikhism. Correct dress is of course required as in any place of worship. Volunteers take care of keeping your shoes free in a huge cloakroom: religion invites its faithful to give of themselves and to participate actively in the life of the community. Explanatory panels present the principles of Sikhism: love of truth, strict equality between men, refusal of idols, evocations of 10 gurus whose texts have revealed the foundations of this religion.

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Delhi Jodhpur (domestic flight about 1h) route to Jaisalmer

In the morning, transfer to the airport and fly to Jodhpur.

Continuation by the road to join Jaisalmer, the "Golden City" so fascinating and that seems out of nothing, in the middle of the desert, like a mirage. Advanced position on the Thar desert, Jaisalmer once controlled the crossing by the many caravans which ensured the trade between the west and the north of India. On arriving, the first vision is that of the fortified citadel emerging from the horizon, impressive with its walls and massive towers.

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Jaisalmer

This morning, departure for a camel ride "the king of the desert". We offer you one of the most authentic ways to explore small desert villages. On the way for an exciting and rewarding adventure in this living, vibrant, very colorful and hospitable desert. Riding a camel is not that easy. You just need to get used to the movement of the camel and keep your balance on it. Camels are their only means of transport for the inhabitants of the desert. 

In the afternoon, city tour. Its imposing citadel, its bastions and its ramparts, covered with a golden softness at sunset, constitute a spectacle worthy of the "Thousand and One Nights". Ideally placed on the route of the caravanners between India and Central Asia, its past history and development are linked to the trade which enriched traders and townspeople. It is from this very prosperous period that the splendid residences (Haveli) date. sandstone, embellished with delicate wood carvings.

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Jaisalmer - Jodhpur

Back to Jodhpur, "the Blue City", located on the edge of the Thar Desert is the largest city in Rajasthan after Jaipur, via Ossian.

Ossian is an important pilgrimage center for the Jain community. The Mahavira Temple, built here in the year 783, is an important tîrtha for Jains. It was built by King Gurjara Pratihara Vatsaraja.

In the afternoon, visit of the fort. Then, set off to explore its narrow streets dominated by these azure blue havelis, the color of the Brahmans… they literally merge with the sky of Rajasthan. They are the scene of a daily and traditional life where sacred and imperturbable cows rub shoulders with donkeys, milk collectors, children in uniform, women in sari chatting on the doorsteps with their neighbours. Discover the famous 'Sadar bazzar with its many craftsmen: manufacturers of traditional crystal bracelets, traditional padlocks in the most varied shapes…. The falling light shimmers with its orange tones on the ramparts of the fort of Mehrangarh, the “citadel of the sun” which dominates Jodhpur.

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Jodhpur Ranakpur Udaipur

On the road to Udaipur, visit the temples of Ranakpur. Between the gentle hills of the Aravalli Mountains, the Jain temples of Ranakpur are like white marble flowers in a green setting. In the hollow of a shady valley stands the largest temple jain from all over India: the Chaumukha or "Four Heads", dedicated to Adinath, the first "Stepper".

The site is one of the five major pilgrimages of Jainism. The temple of Adinatha  is one of the most beautiful and vast Jain buildings in India. It covers an area of ​​3 600 m² and has no less than 29 halls, 1 440 pillars none of which is carved identically and some 80 cupolas.

All the temples were built in the 15th century at the initiative of a wealthy Jain merchant to honor the gods of his faith. The monastic complex now houses a small community of Jain monks, visited by many pilgrims.

Open to non-jains from 12h to 17h. Cigarettes, alcohol, shoes and leather goods are prohibited in the temples. Visits with audio guide, guides are prohibited inside the temples.

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Udaipur

Dominating the city and the lake, you will discover the Maharana palace which houses interesting collections of weapons, miniatures and a maze of courtyards, rooms, lounges decorated with mirrors or ceramics.

Visit of the Vishnouic temple of Jagdish (32th century) which is accessed by a monumental staircase of XNUMX steps. Stroll in the old town and the bazaar with countless stalls and craftsmen's workshops.

Discovery of the very pretty Sahelion Ki Bari garden adorned with elegant pavilions and fountains.

Free time, at the end of the afternoon a boat trip on Lake Pichola which will offer you a superb panorama of the city and the palace in the soft light of the setting sun.

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Udaipur - Jaipur Flight

In the morning, transfer to the airport for your domestic flight Udaipur - Jaipur. Reception at the airport, transfer and installation at your hotel.

In the afternoon, visit the Pink city and capital of Rajasthan, namely Jaipur.

Work of an architect from Bengal, Vidhyadhar Bhattacharya, its design is based on the Shilp Shastra, an ancient Hindu treatise: Reproducing a regular frame mandala, the urban plan forms a grid of streets at right angles in the center of which sits the City Palace. .

Discovery of the City Palace, the Palace of the Maharajah, with its museum of royal clothes, ceremonial canopies and also splendid miniatures. Courts, doors and monuments follow one another in a real enchantment!
Then, at the Observatory of Jai Singh, the Maharajah astronomer, you can read the time of your visit which corresponds to the meridian of Jaipur and not that of Greenwich. Huge astronomical instruments in yellow painted sandstone and marble bear witness to Maharajah Sawai Jai Singh II's passion for the sciences of the sky. Futuristic architectures of sundials, signs of the zodiac and other astrolabes.

Jaipur.

Excursion to Amber Fort, with its palaces, its halls set with mirrors and the old harem. The old fortress of the princes (XNUMXth-XNUMXth century) contains very beautiful rooms, in particular the audience room, and the reception room, richly decorated with mirrors. In Mughal times, the region always had to be ready for war. Amber was the residence of the Maharajas. Seeing the defensive forts that surround the place, you can imagine the power of the character.
Ascent to the Fort by jeep and visit of the palace with its rooms set with mirrors and the old harem, a veritable labyrinth.

On the way, a glimpse of the famous "Hawa Mahal", the Palace of the Winds, facade which allowed the ladies of the court to see the spectacle of the street without being seen. Built in 1799, the Wind Palace has only the appearance of a pink sandstone facade. 

Free afternoon.

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Jaipur - Fatehpur Sikri - Agra

On the road to Agra, visit of Fatehpur Sikri, former imperial capital frozen in the past., splendid imperial city whose buildings of red sandstone are in a perfect state of conservation. The story of the birth of this mysterious city is the subject of a legend: in Sikri lived a saint, whom Akbar, in need of an heir, went to consult; a son will be born the following year and Akbar, grateful, had a palace built there. Thousands of artisans will then bring up the city of Sikri, renamed Fatehpur "the city of victory" by Akbar. But he abandoned it, 14 years later, to go back to the campaign.
At the time when the English came to meet Akbar there, they could not believe their eyes, at the time the city was more important than London. Now she's deserted ...

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Agra - Delhi

In the morning, visit Taj Mahal (closed on Friday). He has something to fascinate. Could it be for its romantic and romantic story?

The Mughal Sultan Shah Jehan wanted to erect for his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal, a burial commensurate with the love he had for her. He summoned an architect from Persia whose wife he had murdered so that he could feel the pain of this loss. The pharaonic works spanned 20 years. We had to bring the white marble from far away. Shah Jehan intended to be buried in a twin mausoleum at the Taj Mahal made of black granite. But his dreams of a romantic builder were cut short by his son Aurangzeb who deposed him and locked him in the Red Fort until the end of his days.

Then the Red Fort whose military power cannot be doubted. Protected by heavy ramparts, the Red Fort is elevated and dominates the urban fabric and the Yamouna River. It is no longer accessed by the great Delhi Dawârza (Delhi gate), but by the Amar Singh Dawârza (Amar Singh gate), which precedes another interior bastion flanked by two towers. Double membrane of impressive and effective protection, the British were able to resist here several months during the revolution of the sepoys, in 1857, this bastion is moreover the only one dating from the time of Akbar, great founder of the Mughal dynasty. Its red sandstone architecture is similar to that of Fatehpur Sikri, the emperor's previous capital. The other pavilions, made under his successors, Shah Jehan and Aurangzeb, make intensive use of white marble.

Back to Delhi, room available to cool off before transfer to the airport.

On the road to Rajasthan

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  • Quality, central and exceptional accommodations for the 5 * Luxury version of this itinerary
  • A beautiful immersion for a first or second trip to India
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