The Land of FANTASIES with Royal Fort and Palaces - Rajasthan

A India Group Tour is dispersed with magnificent structures, heart-stirring edifices and wonderful architecture.

Forts and palaces simply abound in the state, each one of them equally unique and interesting. These structures beautifully capture the valour and glory of the Rajput maharajahs. If you're ready to listen, each of these forts and palaces will narrate a story. And you will be spellbound.

One of the finest ways to see and explore Rajasthan is travel in groups of like-minded travellers. When you visit with people of shared interests, the joy and fun of your travel multiplies.

Majestic Forts and Palaces Group Tours take you from one city of Rajasthan to another as you get to catch sights of gigantic forts and exquisite palaces built by Rajput kings. Many of the palaces of the Rajput era have now been turned into heritage hotels. This gives you an excellent opportunity to plan your stay at one of these hotels and experience a lifestyle which was once the privilege of the maharajahs. Each of these palace hotels symbolize the valour and hospitality that are unique to Rajasthan.

Shekhawati Region: A forts and palaces tour takes you to the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan. Here, you'll get to enjoy a sightseeing tour of Mandawa, famous for its palaces and havelis. Soak up the charm of frescoes paintings which adorn the walls and ceilings of palaces.

Desert Cities: The cities of Bikaner, Jaisalmer and Jodhpur are together known as the Desert Trio. They are located in the midst of the Thar Desert and feature a number of forts and palaces. Key attractions include the Junagarh Fort, the Lalgarh Palace, the Jaisalmer Fort, the Mehrangarh Fort. There are many forts, palaces and havelis that you'll see during your group tour to these cities. Camel safaris are also a part of your tour.

Udaipur: It's the most picturesque and most visited city of Rajasthan, particularly by couples and honeymooners. Also referred to as the City of Lakes, Udaipur is popular for the City Palace, which also features a museum containing an exquisite collection of wall paintings, glass work and a number of items that were once used by the Rajput maharajahs.

Jaipur: Known world-wide as the Pink City of India, Jaipur is a regular haunt of travellers. During your forts and palaces group tour, you'll have a wonderful experience in the city. Take an elephant ride up to the Amer Fort, the most popular fort located on the outskirts of the city. Also, make a visit to the Jaigarh Fort which was used to collect weapons of war by the Rajput kings. Jaipur has a lot more to see and have fun with.

If you plan to dig out the splendid history of Rajasthan, the forts and palaces tour is the way to go. These group tours are aimed at helping you see every structure that makes the state majestic.

Best spots to be enjoyed on India Wildlife Tour Packages

An exotic and welcoming nation for tourists and nomads offering a vast and great range of exciting tourist activities, India, equally offers an unparallel diversity and richness to be found anywhere else on the globe. When planning for India Tour Packages, one should consider at the same time booking IndiaWildlife Tour packages to get the best views of and experience of the nature in a country where about 24% of total surface is reserved with forest and wild life sanctuaries in India.   

A very vast and expanded nation, India offers a great number of wildlife parks and sanctuaries for visitors from all across the globe, who, come on India tourpackages to enjoy a country of immense diversity and richness in Flora and Fauna. However, from a long list of wild life parks, the most popular wild reserves in India follow as.        

      

•  Kaziranga Tiger Reserve: A most important destination on India Wildlife Tour, Kaziranga Tiger Reserve is a UNESCO World Heritage site situated on the floodplain area of Brahmaputra and is home to endangered species of beasts as the Indian one-horned Rhinoceros, Wild Water Buffalo, Capped Langur, Hoolock Gibbon and more. In addition to Jeep Safari you can even visit the century on an elephant’s back.    

Kaziranga Tiger Reserve

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•  Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve: With the highest number of tigers at a single place Bandhavgarh is the best place anywhere in the world to see Bengal Tiger in its natural habitat and surrounding. It is maximum possibility that at Tala zone of Bandhavgarh you can see a tiger in summer months. It is home to some exotic species of birds and mammals.      

 

•    Kabini National Park: This is the park where you will see the biggest flock of elephants on India wildlife tours and a rare chance to watch leopard in the world. An ideal place for bird watching you even can encounter tiger on your visit to Kabini National Park. This is a wildlife reserve that is open from all sides and one even can enjoy boat cruises and wild life safaris here. 

  

KabiniNational Park

•    Anaimalai Tiger Reserve: Spread acrosstheWestern Ghats of Kerala and Tamil Nadu here you will witness India’s most rewarding and precious evergreen forests. This park is so rich in wild animals that you will see them very frequently on your visit to the park.     It is a great experience in the forest when you enjoy it on   jeep safaris, boat safaris or trekking on specified trails.

•   Jim Corbett National Park: It is another important destination on India wildlife tour supposed to be India’s first national park with its own uniqueness. A prized spot to witness tiger in wilderness further you will witness Tigers, leopards and elephants in the forest.    

Jimm Corbett National Park

Enjoy a trip to Vrindavan, the play ground of Lord Krishna on India Group Tours

Importance of Vrindavan is no lesser than any important destination on Golden Triangle Tour, though, it cannot match with excellence and global appeal of Delhi and Agra for being capital of India and city of Taj Mahal, respectively. However, it is an important centre of Hindu pilgrimage that you will witness and enjoy on India group tours in praise of Lord Krishna after Mathura. If Mathura is known as a birth place of Lord Krishna than at Vrindavan, Lord spent his childhood and youth.

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Vrindavan is located at original forest of Vrindavan, where he spent his childhood at the banks of the river Yamuna. This place is associated with many important events related to the life of Lord Krishna as the Maharaas- divine dance Lord Krishna performed with Gopis and many other events.  It is accounted that around 5,000 temples are located in Vrindavan.  In oblivion the city once again surfaced in 1515, when the Bengali saint Chaitanya visited Vrindavana on pilgrimage and spiritually located the original sites related with Krishna. He is said to have succeeded in this, and most of the modern pilgrimage sites are based on his identifications.This would be great revelation for you on India tour packages on a visit of vrindavan.

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On Golden Triangle Tours as a part of India group tours you will get Vrindavan about 150 kilometres away from South Delhi. The closest railway station from Vrindavan is Mathura that is just about 12 Km away from there. The city is about 50 Kms from Agra.  It is an ancient city with congested lanes and if you wish to travel it then it is best advised to travel it on foot or cycle rickshaw.       

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As there are numerous temples to visit in Vrindavan on India group tours, the Lord Krishna’s city, it is not possible to pay tribute at all of them. Therefore it is advised to visit some of the best temples there as BihariJi temple that is best known temple housing Krishna’s idol known as Thajkur – ji. It is said that idol’s eyes are so powerful that they are kept hidden behind a curtain and is open and closed in every few minutes. Govinda Dev Mandir constructed by Raja Sawai Man Singh of Jaipur in 1590. 

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Jaigurudeo Temple also called "Naam Yog Sadhna Mandir" resembling Tajmahal is built with white marble.     Krishna Balaram Mandir, renowned as ISKCON Temple is great attraction for Hare Krishna (ISKCON) pilgrims to India and has extraordinary reputation of handling foreign devotees among Vrindavan’s temple.  

In addition to above mentioned one some other important temples in Vrindavan are Kesi Ghat,  Seva Kunj,  Rangji Mandir, Radhavallabh Mandir,  Radharaman Mandir and lots more.

Enjoy India group tours with Mathura and Vrindavan, the land of Lord Krishna

     

Two important places on Golden Triangle Tours, Mathura is closely associated with a deeper aspect of Indian Mythology and a way of Indian living, the Lord Krishna, can be planned with India Group Tours. Mathura and Vrindavan closely associated with the life of Lord Krishna are two most important centres of Hindu Pilgrimage. On the route to Golden TriangleGroup Tours, Mathura is located around 50 Kilometers away from Agra and 145 Kilometers from Delhi is birth place of Lord Krishna and is being popularly known as  Brij Bhoomi or Shir Krishna Janma Bhoomi. 

Holy at Mathura

An ancient city, Mathura even has mention in the oldest Indian epic, the Ramayana.  The city in the 6^th century BCE was the capital of Surasena Mahajanapada. The city was even under the rule of Maurya Empire and the Shugna Dynasty between 4^th to 2^nd century. However, the best period of Mathura under Indian history was when it was one of the capitals of Kushan dynasty.     

Baldev Temple Mathura                      

For a visitor’s perspective, whether, he is coming to the city on day tour or on an India Group Tours by train it can reach there from any corner of India. The city is well connected to all the important Indian cities including New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Indore, Alwar, Jaipur, Bhopal, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Ujjain, Rewa, Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi etc. Different Highways connect Mathura with the rest of the country.  NH 2 (Delhi-Howrah), National Highway 3 (to Mumbai), a part of which is known as Mathura Road. NH-11 (Agra to Bikaner) and NH-93 (Moradabad) all connects to Mathura. If in hurry, Yamuna Expressway connects Mathura in shortest time.

At present city has no airport, however, the closest airport to the city is Agra airport.  For tourist Mathura has a very high reputation and status. It is considered as a holy city for Hindus. It has many places of religious importance within the city. The twin city to Mathura is Vrindavan, where Lord Krsihna spent his childhood and youth and a great spiritual pleasure for you on India tour packages. 

Bake Bihari Temple Mathura

The cities of Mathura and Vrindavan has approximately has around 7000 temples in total. Some important temples that you can visit on India group tours of India are Keshav Dev Temple (Shri Krishna Janma Bhoomi),   Vishram Ghat (Bank of River Yamuna),  Shri Jagannath Temple Bhuteshwar Mathura,     Prem Mandir, Vrindavan,  Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir, Vrindavan,  Mathura Museum, Birla Mandir,   Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi,  Naam yog Sadhna Mandir (Baba Jai Gurudev Temple), Banke Bihari Temple, Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi, Iskcon Temple, Baldeo temple, Bhuteshwar temple and others.  

Iskon Temple, Mathura 

Matura merely is not a birth place of Lord Krishna and is being revered for carving out a unique Indian cultural image. The value of entire Brij region is centred about lord Krishna and his tales. Mathura gets wrapped with entirely different colours during Holi and Krishna Janmasthami.              

Trip to the Venice of East on India Group Tour

On a tour to Rajasthan or North India where Golden Triangle Tour is an invitation tour and offer trip to a good number of Indian cities and places the tour to city of Udaipur is a most important one and crucial.  Though there are many places in Udaipur to travel during your Rajasthan tour and travel trip, the one of the most important and popular spots to enjoy in Udaipur is City Palace Udaipur, the famous palace complex  that was completed during the course of 400 years and had the contributions from a  number of rulers from the same dynasty. 

    

The construction of the city palace complex began in year 1559 by the Maharana Udai Sing II when he made Udaipur capital of the Sisodia Rajput clan in 1559. The Palace complex is located at the east bank of Lake Pichola and also has many palaces located within its temple complex. The City Palace Udaipur is one of the largest palace complexes of its type in India and is a result of fusion of Rajasthani and Mughal architectural style. At the top of the hill the palace offers a very panoramic view of the city.

The picturesque views of the city can be visualized from the city palace including Lake Palace in Lake Pichola, the Jag Mandir, the Jagdish Temple, the Monsoon Palace, and the Neemach Mata Palace. Thus the presence of City Palace and surrounding places has made the city of Udaipur very popular and termed it to be “Venice of the East.”  Even Udaipur is considered even and rated as the top city in the World’s Best Awards by Travel + Leisure.   

                   

From 1559 onwards the palace was constructed by 76 generations of Sisodia Rajputs or Suryavanshi Rajputs (worshippers of Sun god) and represents the architectural blend that is an amalgamation of Rajasthani, Mughal, Medieval, European and Chinese Architecture that you will observe here during your Golden Triangle Group Tour.

The place has three entrances Bari Pol on the left to City Palace, Tripolia (Triple) Gate in centre and Hathi Pol (Elephant Gate) on extreme right. The Entire City Palace Complex is divided into many important sections and parts for various purposes and utilities being used by the Royal Family.  Amar Vilas is the   raised garden that gives access to Badi Mahal and is a pleasure pavilion created in Mughal Style. It is the highest point of the City Palace has exotic hanging gardens with fountains, towers and terraces.   

Badi Mahal is another important place here that is learnt to be as Garden Palace that is situated on the 27 meters high rock formation along the rest of palace. It also has a swimming pool and at adjoining halls are paintings from 18th and 19th century.  Other places here worth visiting are Durbar Hall, Fateprakash Palace and other.       

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Select a home away from home on India group tours

As you have ample of yours urban living in mundane concrete jungle of western hemispheres and as you have decided to enjoy your this vacation in India on group tours while  making some new friends and reasons to make it the most special occasion of your life. Along with your friends on this India group trip you get some exciting places to live and stay that you will find entirely different from routine hotel accommodations and five start suites.       

On your this special India group tours trip, the first unique home that you can choose for yourself is Bamboo cottages in Wayanad in the state of Kerala offers that leaves an special healing effect as well as makes one excited and rejuvenated. At Bamboo hut you will get and explore a great kind of out of the box travel and touring experience.        

India Group Tours Bamboo House 

 

Ladakh known to be the roof of the world is a mesmerizing place to be enjoyed on an Indian trip. The idea of a tree house is not new; however, it will be a completely new way to enjoy your trip at Ladakh  one of the most spiritual place to be found anywhere on the globe. May be on some extra bucks, the tree houses of Ladakh are actually a uniquely place for living and enjoying the Himalayan adventure trip. 

Ladakh Tree House

May be listening strange to hear, yet there is a massive possibility of luxury in middle of the desert. Luxury Tent houses of Jaisalmer are indeed the place where you can enjoy a lavish lifestyle amidst the Sand Dunes. Apart for special arrangements for luxury tents you can have experience and exposure at Jaisalmer Desert Camp where you can enjoy your vacations amidst the pleasures, charms, excitement of sand.  Held between Septembers to March, the desert camps are innovative way to spend your India group tours vacations in Rajasthan.

Jaisalmer  Desert Camp

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Heading to Chittaurgarh Fort after group tour of Jaipur in India?

When you are with your entire gang of travel freaks on a group tour of India and has presently stay at the Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan, the state most popular in tourist circuits on a trip to India, you can’t miss visiting the Chittaurgarh fort. On your Rajasthan tour after Jaipur, the next preferred destination that you will be advised by the guides as well as travelling veterans is Chittaurgarh Fort.  The fort is known for great heroism and bravery attached to it as the fort has witnessed great bloodshed and sacrifices attached to it.  

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Situated in district of Udaipur, the first historical monument that you will encounter there is Kumbha Palace a massive palace constructed by Rana Kumbha in 15th century. The epitome of Rajput architecture the palace was used by Royal family as a place of residence and included stable for horses and other buildings. Mewar’s symbol the Golden Sun was once kept in this palace and was revered by the King every morning. Kumbha’s palace is also the birth place of Rana Udai Singh that further associating with the tale of Panna Dhai, who let her own infant son die to save the Rana Udai Singh.

Kumbah Palace 

Along with the Kumbha’s Palace there is a Meera Bai’s palace in the background. Meer Bai  is a great poet saint and devotee of Lord Krishna. Meera was married to Prince Bhoj Raj, the eldest son of Rana Sanga of Chittod. She is a famous for devotion to Lord Krishna and the hymns and songs that she created are famous today even after five century later. 

Vijay Stambh

The most important monument within Chittaurgarh fort is Vijay Stambh that is a victory tower that is massive nine story tower made in 1440 AD by Rana Kumbha to celebrate his victory over Sultan Mehmud Khilji of Gujarat. This magnificent architecture is elaborately decorated with images from Indian mythology. With 157 steps to climb on its top Vijay Stambh is a UNESCO world heritage site that you will get to see on your India group tour to Chittaurgarh Fort.

Gumukh Reservoir

Other important monuments in Chittaurgarh fort are Samiddhesvara Temple and Goumukh Reservoir