Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Itinerary Specially Designed For
‘Mrs. Monica Gupta & Her Family’
‘Temples & Neighborhoods’ This tour platter is beautifully set with the crown jewel attractions of North India. There is spirituality and there is romance in the tour. We also step off the tourist track to observe and experience a living museum where life and conditions as well as human spirits remain frozen in time....Trinetra Tours.

The itinerary will look like a bus tour on steroids....but each day has been carefully planned for maximum enjoyment. Trinetra Tours helped design everything in this itinerary. They booked the hotels, transportation, all the drivers. We spent about a month emailing back and forth making sure I had all the 'family visits' incorporated into each city visit.

Once the itinerary was worked out we were able to choose hotels based on comfort 3star to 5star. Nothing was booked without a 'Tripadvisor' review check.

Day 1 Arrive in Delhi. Meet a car and driver at the airport (meet my cousins)

Day 2 Delhi. Tour Red Fort, Qutab Minar (meet more family)

Day 3 Delhi. Tour Old Delhi. Rickshaw ride only. (meet more family)

Day 4 Fly to Jammu. Meet my massi and family.

Day 5 Fly to Varanasi. See the Ganga river at night.

Day 6 Varanasi. Walk through the streets/ghats. (meet more family)

Day 7 Fly to Agra. See the Taj Mahal

Day 8 Drive Agra to Jaipur via Fatepur Sikri.

Day 9 Jaipur. Tour Amber Fort and City Palaces.

Day 10 Train from Jaipur to Jodhpur. Visit Clocktower Bazaar.

Day 11 Drive from Jodhpur to Udaipur via Ranakpur.

Day 12 Udaipur. Tour Lake City.

Day 13 Fly from Udaipur to Mumbai. Celebrate Leela's birthday en route.

Day 14 Mumbai. Tour Elephanta Caves.

Day 15 Mumbai. Possible Bollywood tour.

Day 16 Mumbai. Shopping?

Day 17 Fly back.

Wish us luck!!!! Next is how to pack?

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