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Palace on Wheels Tours:

Duration : 07 Nights / 08 Days Palace on Wheels Tours
Destinations : Delhi - Jaipur- Jaisalmer - Jodhpur - Sawai Madhopur- Chittaurgarh - Udaipur- Bharatpur - Agra

Like Golden Triangle Tours and Indian speciality Tours, the Palace on Wheels tours is one of the world's most exciting journeys, as much for the train and the facilities provided on board, as for the royal destinations it proceeds to every single day.

With everything taken care of - dining, accommodation, sightseeing - as well as organized shopping, there is nothing for the traveler to do but seep in the history of the land, soak in the colors, Indian Cultural Tours and experience the royal life of a maharaja.

Day 01 : Wednesday
The tour starts in the evening with the ceremonial welcome aboard the Palace on Wheels at Delhi Cantonment. Delhi too is an ancient capital, once the fabled city of the heroes of the Mahabharata, and ruled by the Rajputs before they were displaced by the Tughlaqs, the khiljis, and the Mughals.

After a hectic day of sightseeing, the train will come as a respite. Feel free to explore your new home, and acquaint yourself with its various facilities. Relax with a drink at the bar. Dinner will be served on board the two restaurants. The train departs from Delhi at 18:30 hrs.

Day 02 : Thursday
Arrive 02:00 hrs in Jaipur to be greeted by caparisoned elephants. Lunch will be served at Rambagh Palace, and dinner is a celebration under the canopy of the star-lit skies at Jai Mahal Palace. Your sightseeing during the day includes Amber Fort, Hawa Mahal, the Jantar Mantar observatory, and the City Palace complex.

The train departs from the Pink City at 19:30 hrs. Like Golden triangle tours, here also you are enrouted through Jaipur , Golden Triangle Tours and Indian Cultural tours, which has now become the capital of the Kachchwaha kings when they shifted here from their hilltop of Amber.

It was built according to the principles laid down in the ancient architectural treatises, but with all the opulence deserving of a royal city. At its center rose the seven-tiered palace of the royal family, Goldan Triangle Tours and around it came up gardens and temples, its astronomical observatory and the myriads of mansions and shops that went into the making of the new capital.

Day 03 : Friday
Arrive at 08:15 hrs at Jaisalmer. Spend the day in this isolated, but architecturally one of the greatest royal bastions of the world. After a safari dinner served under the stars, at a campsite, come back to the train to resume your journey. Departure is at 23:00 hrs. Jaisalmer was the stronghold of the Bhatti Rajputs, and a hardier race never lived.

Their early settlement was marked by brigandage, as they looted caravans at will, stealing horses, and inviting the wrath of the West Asian invaders. Over time they began to settle, and the 12th century fort with its ninety-nine bristling bastions was established on top of Trikuta hill, exactly as prophesied for these descendants of Krishna.

Isolated Jaisalmer may have been, a lost city in the sands of the Thar, more mythic than real, for those of who heard of it, but the caravans that passed through its territories enriched the coffers of the treasury. It also kept Jaisalmer in touch with the world, for such caravans carried not merely goods but also artisans and master-craftsmen. The Maharawals of Jaisalmer thought of making use of their services to build the magnificent, sandstone architecture for which it has become known around the world.

Day 04 : Saturday
Time for you to visit yet another desert kingdom, Jodhpur, where you arrive at 07:00 hrs. You can spend the morning at Mehrangarh Fort that towers over the city like an eagle's eye, and then come downhill to lunch at Umaid Bhawan Palace, the largest art-deco residence in the world, and now home to the head of the royal family, museum and luxury hotel.

Departure, after unwinding in the palace, is at 15:30 hrs. The history of Jodhpur is five-hundred-year-old, the bastion of the valiant Rathore Rajputs, bristles with conflicts and sieges, with battles and savage skirmishes, so it is difficult to believe that they found the time to not only build the impossibly invincible-looking Mehrangarh Fort, but also its lavish, and delicately embellished palaces.

Within the fort, the accoutrements of the royal past are well presented - swords and daggers and spears and matchlock guns; a battle tent seized from Emperor Jehangir; howdahs and chariots and carriages; cribs and beds; the royal, octagonal throne; musical instruments, large drums, even a collection of turbans. From the ramparts of the fort, where the cannons are still mounted, the sweeping view also takes in a huge palace located on top of another, though lower, hill.

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Day 05 : Sunday
Steam into Sawai Madhopur to spend the day in the wilds of Ranthambor Natio Indian cultural tours nal Park, which is home to the royal Bengal tiger, the stateliest of the big cats. As it moves through the underbrush, its tawny gold hide striped with bands of black, the jungle stands to attention. Ranthambor is also very picturesque. A number of lakes form the shallow lands where tiger sightings are quite common, and where herds of deer can be seen foraging while crocodiles bask in the sun.

Day 06 : Monday
In time, the Sisodias also laid the foundation for a new kingdom - Udaipur - situated by Lake Pichola, where the impressive City Palace was lavished with aesthetic embellishments, and the art of miniature paintings was encouraged in its ateliers.

Subsequently, too, the princes built the island palaces, summer retreats that cover the masses of land so that the building looks afloat in water. Besides the Lake Palace, there are other such retreats that have been converted into hotels, one of them Shiv Niwas, being run by the current head of the family. A graceful, valorous race, the Sisodias and their city bring alive the excitement of a medieval kingdom as it once was, and with a little imagination, can still almost be?.

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If it's Tuesday It must be Bharatpur. Arrive at 06:30 hrs at a royal kingdom where the Jats, rather than the Rajputs, ruled. Bharatpur's Jat history is not too old, with Suraj Mal establishing a firm stronghold in the region contested by both the Rajputs and the Mughals.

Suraj Mal's exploits are legendary, and the fort, Lohagarh, or iron fort, has a history that recounts it with pride. The only fort in the state to have bastions of mud, these proved meritorious because they simply swallowed up the canon shells, not allowing them to impact.

However, it is not for its fort, or palace, or even the close-by fortified resort of Deeg that the passengers of the Palace on Wheels are here for: their attention is drawn to the bird sanctuary, one of the finest in the world. The Keoladeo Ghana National Park was developed by a royal edict when dykes were created so that water could be channelised for the hunting preserve the maharaja of Bharatpur wished to create.