Fairs and Festivals Tours of India
India is a land of great diversity. It covers a land mass roughly the size of Europe and is home to one fifth of humanity. It's domain extends 3,300 km from the northern snow capped Himalayas to the steamy palm dotted south.
Its' people speak a total of 1,652 dialects and has 15 officially recognized languages with a cuisine that undergoes changes every 200 km. Lifestyles and customs vary every few hundred kms . Each state promotes it's tourist wonders.
It has a myriad festivals, in rhythm with the cycle of the seasons, with sowings and harvesting. As elsewhere, around them have grown legends, most depicting the victory of good over evil. Before Independence, many persons counted his age or an important event in his life by connecting them with particular festivals during h/her birth year!. These were the punctuation marks in the story of his life.
                                                                                                                          FESTIVE INDIA TOUR - 1
Period: January - February
Duration: 20 nights / 21 days
Cities: Madras - Kanchipuram - Mahabalipuram - Madras - Delhi - Rishikesh - Delhi - Surajkumd - Udaipur - Ranakpur - Jodhpur - Nagaur - Khimsar - Jodhpur - Delhi.
Festivals:

	Dance Festival - Mahabalipuram
	International Yoga Week - Rishikesh
	Surajkund Craft Mela - Delhi
	Nagaur Cattle Fair - Nagaur

Highlights: A variety of festivals on this specially designed tour take you from South to North India to see the best of both. Learn yoga and view word famous Rajasthan while you're at it.

FESTIVE INDIA TOUR - 2
Period: February
Duration: 18 nights / 19 days
Cities: Delhi - Jodhpur - Nagaur - Jodhpur - Jaipur - Agra - Delhi - Mumbai - Trivandrum - Kovalam - Kumarakom - Cochin - Mumbai .
Festivals:

	Surajkund Crafts Mela - Delhi
	Nagaur Cattle Fair - Nagaur
	Taj Mahotsav - Agra
	The Elephanta Festival - Mumbai
	Nishagandhi Dance Festival -Trivandrum

Highlights: Sights of modern India and medieval Mughal and Rajput Forts, Palaces and Taj Mahal. Stay in one of the finest Heritage Palaces of India - Samode Palace, nestled picturesquely amidst rugged hills.
                                                                                                            
FESTIVE INDIA TOUR - 3
Period: February
Duration: 19 nights / 20 days
Cities: Delhi - Pathankot - Dharamsala - Palampur - Delhi - Jodhpur - Nagaur - Bikaner - Khimsar - Jaisalmer - Jodhpur - Delhi.
Festivals:

	Tibetan New Year-Dharamsala
	Surajkund Crafts Mela-Delhi
	Nagaur Cattle Fair-Nagaur
	Desert Festival- Jaisalmer

Highlights: A purely North Indian itinerary taking you from one most exciting festival to another. Participate in the breath-taking Tibetan New Year celebrations at Namgyal Monastery. Descend to the plains of North India and visit Rajasthan for the spectacle of the desert: forts, camels, folk dances..

FESTIVE INDIA TOUR - 4
Period: February
Duration: 11 nights / 12 days
Cities: Delhi - Dharamsala - Pathankot - Delhi - Agra - Delhi
Festivals:

Tibetan New Year

Highlights: Go straight to Dharamsala for the Tibetan New Year, the hill resort once popular with the British where His Holiness the Dalai Lama now resides, for the New Year celebrations.  Visit other Buddhist sites before returning to the plains to see Agra.
                                                                                                          

FESTIVE INDIA TOUR - 5
Period: February
Duration: 17 nights / 18 days
Cities: Delhi - Surajkund - Delhi - Mandawa - Bikaner - Khimsar - Nagaur - Luni - Jodhpur - Jaisalmer - Delhi.
Festivals:

	Surajkund Crafts Mela-Delhi
	Nagaur Cattle Fair-Nagaur
	Desert Festival-Jaisalmer

Highlights: A shorter purely North Indian itinerary taking you from one most exciting festival to another. Visit Rajasthan for the spectacle of the desert: forts, camels and folk-dances..

FESTIVE INDIA TOUR - 6
Period: March
Duration: 18 nights / 19 days
Cities: : Delhi - Khajuraho - Varanasi - Lucknow - Agra - Bharatpur - Jaipur - Udaipur - Delhi.
Festivals:

	The Dance Festival – Khajuraho
	The Elephant Festival – Jaipur
	Holi,  Festival of Colors – Udaipur

Highlights: The best of North India at festival time.  View the Golden Triangle, Khajuraho, Varanasi, Lucknow and Rajasthan while you enjoy the explosion of color and festivity.

FESTIVE INDIA TOUR - 7
Period: July
Duration: 16 nights / 17 days
Cities: Delhi - Leh - Meru - Tanglangla - Sarchu - Baralacha - Darcha - Rohtang - Manali - Dharamsala - Pathankot - Delhi
Festivals:

Hemis Festival, Leh

Highlights: A festival tour combined with soft adventure for the moderately brave and adventurous.  Leh:  a rate lunarscape of bleak rock and gravel, the exotic land of Buddhist monasteries at the time of its annual festival.  Witness most adventurous and stimulating combat between good spirits and demons.  Return to earth by a jeep through high Himalayan mountain passes.
                                                                                                            
FESTIVE INDIA TOUR - 8
Period: September
Duration: 17 nights / 18 days
Cities: Mumbai - Pune - Delhi - Leh - Delhi - Jaipur - Agra - Delhi
Festivals:

	Pune Festival – Pune
	Ladakh Festival – Leh

Highlights: A sweeping tour across West and North India from the shores of Mumbai and the Pune Festival with live performances by the country’s finest classical music starts to India’s splendid capital and on to the northern most reaches of India.  Leh:  a rare lunarscape of bleak rock and gravel, the exotic land of Buddhist monasteries at the time of the annual , Ladakh Festival:  A live with drumbeats, dances and blazing hues.  Return to the plains for a Golden Triangle Tour.

FESTIVE INDIA TOUR - 9
Period: October
Duration: 14 nights / 15 days
Cities: Chennai, Mysore, Bangalore, Mumbai, Jodhpur, Ranakpur, Jodhpur, Udaipur,Delhi, Kulu, Delhi
Festivals:

	Mysore Dussera - Mysore
	Marwar Festival - Jodhpur
	Kullu Dussehra, - Kullu

Highlights: Celebrate the victory of good over evil with magnificent processions, music, dance and drama while viewing the best of South India. Continue to Rajasthan to recreate the haunting melody of the desert before returning to Delhi for the trip to Kullu to re-celebrate Dussehra in the Valley of Gods. 

FESTIVE INDIA TOUR - 10
Period: December / January
Duration:19 nights / 20 days
Cities: Mumbai - Goa - Mumbai - Cochin - Lakshadweep - Cochin - Varkala - Kumarakom - Periyar - Munnar - Cochin - Mumbai
Festivals:

	Christmas, Goa
	Cochin Festival, Cochin
	Ashtamudi Arts & Crafts Festival, Ashram Maidan

Highlights: Most exciting of our festival tours: Christmas in the land of St. Francis Xavier plus a tour through God’s Own Country – Kerala.

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