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Duration : 20 Nights / 21 Days
Destinations Covered : Bombay - Mundra - Bhuj - Villages of Kutch - Zainabad Wildlife Sanctuary - Udaipur - Jaipur - Agra - Delhi

Day 1: Arrival Bombay
Upon arrival at International Airport, you will be meet and greet by the representative of SIMRAN Holidays and transferred to your hotel. Overnight at Hotel.

Day 2: Mumbai / Bhuj (Flight)
Morning after buffet breakfast you will be transfer to airport to connect your Flight to Bhuj. Upon arrival meet and transfer to Hotel. Later lunch, visit to Bhujodi village weavers, who produce blankets and cloth for the local community. Visit to Rabbari textile collector. Evening free at leisure. Overnight at hotel.

Day 3: Anna Mahal Museum
Morning after buffet breakfast at your leave for visit to the restored Anna Mahal museum. After take your lunch you will be go workshop with Mochi (fine hook work) embroiderer. Evening free at leisure. Overnight stay at your hotel.

Day 4: Mundra (50 Kms / 01 Hrs)
Morning after buffet breakfast at your hotel, depart to Visit to Mundra for workshop in wax-resist block printing and felt-making. Evening free at leisure. Overnight stay at your Hotel.

Day 5: Bandani (Tie-dye)
Morning workshop with master craftsmen in Bandani (tie-dye). Afternoon - visit bazaar or continue with workshop. Evening free at leisure. Overnight stay at your Hotel.

Day 6-8: Village in Kutch (160 Kms/04 Hrs)
Morning after buffet breakfast, you will be depart for a highlight of this tour is our stay in a village in Kutch. It is a real privilege to be amongst these people and have a chance to onserve the pastoral life of these gentle people, as well as having demonstrations of bell making, wood craving and lacquer work and a full-day workshop in gold and silver-thread embroidery. Overnight stay at village.

Day 9: Kutch / Bhuj (160 Kms/04Hrs)
Morning after breakfast drive to Bhuj. After lunch you will be transfer at workshop with master craftsmen in block printing. Evening free at leisure. Overnight stay at your Hotel.

Day 10/11: Wildlife Sanctuary of Zainabad (268 Kms/06 Hrs)
Morning after buffet breakfast at your hotel and depart to the wildlife sanctuary of Zainabad. We will see the abundant birds here and the wild ass (found nowhere else in the world). We can also view local embroidery. Evening free at leisure. Overnight at Hotel.

Day 12: Zainabad / Patan (104 Kms / 02.5 Hrs)
Morning after buffet breakfast at your hotel you will be driven to Patan to see the weaving of Mushru and of Double Ikat. Evening free at leisure. Overnight stay at your hotel.

Day 13: Calico Museum
Morning after buffet breakfast at your hotel and visit to the Calico Museum, the finest collection of Indian textiles in the world. In the afternoon you can make a second visit or relax in the hotel, which has a pretty garden and a swimming pool. Evening free at leisure. Overnight at Hotel.

Day 14: Patan / Udaipur (Train)
Morning after buffet breakfast at your hotel you can leave the tour of the day to relax before taking the train to connect for Udaipur. Upon arrival meet and transfer to the attractive lakeside hotel or in the hunting lodge of the Maharaja. This is an excellent place for overnight tailoring and dressmaking - bring something to be copied. Optional own cost dinner in the Lake Palace Hotel. Evening free at leisure. Overnight at hotel.

Day 15: Udaipur / Jaipur (Train)
Morning after buffet breakfast, visit to the miniature painters - they will show us how they grind pigments and produce their work. Visit to see (and perhaps buy) Banjara embroidery from merchant whose extensive stock ranges from inexpensive trifles to masterpieces of museum quality. Optional (additional cost) boat trip on lake. Take evening train to Jaipur. Overnight on Board.

Day 16: Arrive Jaipur
Upon arrival we meet and transfer to hotel after buffet breakfast depart to Morning tour of city - Jai Singh Observation (built 1728, City Palace (a museum with a fabulous collection of textiles, furniture and artifacts of the court, jewellery etc.), characteristic local architecture. Afternoon visit to jewellers (a trade for which Jaipur is famous) to see stones cut and polished and to textile merchants and factory for hand-woven carpets. Evening free at leisure. Overnight at hotel.

Day 17: Jaipur.
Morning after buffet breakfast, Visits to Sanganer and Bagroo - handmade paper workers, block printing, indigo dying, and a potter producing the famous blue pottery of Jaipur. Visit to Anouki Farm design complex. Evening free at leisure. Overnight at hotel.

Day 18: Jaipur / Fatehpur Sikri / Agra (232 Kms/05 Hrs)
Morning after buffet breakfast at your hotel, after that early start for Amber Fort - we ride uphill on elephants! After viewing this magnificent example of Mogul architecture, we continue to Fatehpur Sikri, the ruined sandstone city of Emperor Akbar. Upon arrival check in to your hotel. Evening free at leisure cum shopping activities. Overnight at Hotel.

Day 19: Agra / Delhi (200 kms/04 Hrs)
Morning after buffet breakfast at your hotel, after that visit to Taj Mahal. Visit to craftsmen who do the same sort of 'pietra dura' (inlaid cut-stone) work that decorates the Taj Mahal. Continue to Delhi. On arrival check in to your hotel. Overnight at Hotel.

Please Note : Taj Mahal is closed on Friday.

Day 20: Delhi
Morning after buffet breakfast, Visit to Delhi Mela, 'a Fair' to which textile craftsmen from all over India come to sell their wares. Afternoon visit to Crafts Museum, which has a formidable collection of historic textiles, statues and other traditional work. Evening free at leisure. Overnight at hotel.


Day 21: Delhi / Onward Destination
Morning after buffet breakfast in time transfer to International Airport to connect your flight for the onward destination.