Trip Features
Journey Highlights
- Savor a mouthwatering lunch at the Maharajah’s Royal Palace in Jaipur — a Vantage exclusive!
- Visit the famous Taj Mahal, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
- Experience a morning Nepali elephant safari ride
- Enjoy afternoon tea in the home of a local Indian family
- Witness an aarti lantern ceremony along the Ganges River
Your Price Includes
- Purchase your airfare from Vantage and your airport transfers and government taxes and fees are included
- Guaranteed Small Groups — limited to just 24 travelers!
- 35 sightseeing tours
& Learning Discoveries, featuring audio headsets to enhance your sightseeing experience — a value of $3240 per couple!
- FREE Single Supplement on every departure — a value of $1599!
- Accommodations: 17
nights at Deluxe, Superior First-Class, First-Class, and unrated hotels, plus a lodge at Chitwan National Park to view animals
- 39 meals: 17 breakfasts, 12 lunches, and 10 dinners including Welcome
& Farewell Dinners
- A Vantage Discovery Leader, experienced and English-speaking, to accompany you throughout your journey
- 5 internal flights within India & Nepal, travel by private
air-conditioned motorcoach, and one train journey
- All
transfers & baggage handling overseas (where permitted) when you purchase your airfare from Vantage
- Vantage
5% Travel Reward, received upon your return, to use toward your next Vantage
Memorable Journey®
Highlights
35 Sightseeing Tours & Learning Discoveries – a value of $3260 per couple!
- City tour of Old Delhi with visit to Raj Ghatin Jama Masjid
- Visit to Humayun's tomb
- Panoramic city tour of New Delhi, including a drive past the president's palace, and visits to India gate and Qutab Minar
- Tour of the Jantar Mantar Observatory in Jaipur
- Tour of Amber Fort in Jaipur
- Tour of City Palace &
Royal Museum in Jaipur
- Visit to the Birla Temple in Jaipur
- Tour of the fabled Taj Mahal
- Tour of Agra Fort
- View temples and palaces of Orchha Village
- Visits to Khajuraho temples
- Panoramic city tour of Varanasi with a visit to Large Map of India at Bharatmata
- Visit to Sarnath and its museum, birthplace of Buddhism
- Kathmandu city tour including Pashupatinath, holiest Hindu temple & Boudhanath
- Elephant Safari in Chitwan National Park to view animals
- Visit to the Elephant Stables in Chitwan National Park
- Jeep Boat Safari to visit various animals and birds
- Tour of Kathmandu city including Durbar Square & Temples, Kumari Ghar, home to the living Goddess & Swovambhunath Stupa
- Visit Boudhanath, one of the largest stupas in the world
Learning Discoveries
- Rickshaw ride in Old Delhi
- Visit to the Sikh Temple of Bangla Sahib
- Lunch in an Indian home
- Elephant ride in Jaipur
- Visit to Jaipur’s Old Bazaar
- Tea at a local home in Agra
- Rail trip on an Indian train
- Dance show with performances from Indian states
- Lecture on Khajuraho temples
- Visit to a local village in
Khajuraho
- Visit traditional music school in Varanasi
- Evening boat ride on Ganges to view aarti ceremony
- Lecture by a retired Gurkha officer
- Traditional Nepali dinner and culture show
- Visit to a local Nepali village
- Talk on wildlife at Chitwan National Park by a naturalist
Visit 7 UNESCO World Heritage Sites
- Humayun’s Tomb, Delhi
- Qutab Minar, Delhi
- Taj Mahal, Agra
- Agra Fort, Agra
- Temples at Khajuraho
- Chitwan National Park
- City of Kathmandu
