Delhi
Our
tour starts in the bustling capital city of Delhi, providing a
fascinating introduction to the sights and sounds of India. During
our time in Delhi we explore atmospheric Old Delhi with its busy
winding streets and colourful bazaars. Drive past the imposing Red
Fort, visit the largest Mosque in India Jamma Masjid and also
visit the 2nd world war memorial of India Gate.
Parwanoo
Along
the National Highway as one cross the state border of Haryana into
Himachal, there comes the town of Parwanoo. A couple of decades ao,
this was a sleepy little village but today, it is a pulsating
industrial town.
Fruit based products, plastics, motor parts and watch components
roll out of Parwanoo's factories. For a tourist, Parwanoo is a
convenient base station to see and visit a number of nearby areas.
Dharamsala
Dharamshala is a
beautiful and peaceful town spread at different levels and
surrounded by forests of pine. Accessible from the broad gauge
line at Pathankot Dharamshala provides a range of interesting
activities for the visitors. With the lower end of activities for
the visitors with the lower end of the town at a height of 1250
acting as the busy commercial part of the city. While the upper
suburbs with charming old world names like Forystheganj and
Macleodganj are not too fas below the snow line. The massive snow
capped peaks of the Dhaulandhars rise like giant waves of a frozen
ocean providing the town with a breathtaking view Dharamshala is a
hill station with great variation in altitudes, temperature and
character making it a hot favorite for many visitors.
Dalhousie
Dalhousie is a hill
station full of colonials charm that hold lingering echoes of the
Raj Spread out over five hills the town is named after the 19th
century British governor general Lord Dalhousie. The town’s
varying altitude shades it with a variety of vegetation that
includes stately grooves of pines deodars, oaks and flowering
rhododendrons. Rich in colonial architecture the town preserves
some beautiful churches.,
Its marvelous forest trails overlook vistas of woods hills water
falls, springs and rivulets . Like a silver snake finding its way
out of the mountains, the twists and turns of river Ravi are a
treat to watch from many vantage points,
There are also magnificent views of Chamba valley and the mighty
Dhauldhar range with its awe inspring snow coverd peaks filling
and entire horizon.
Amritsar
Amritsar is home to the Religious Building important to Sikhs -
The Golden Temple. Amritsar is an institution by itself. And the
Golden Temple is the cradle of Amritsar with the city growing
around it nurtured by its divine sanctity. Amritsar is one of the
most sacred sikh religious sites in India.
The Golden Temple is not only a religious building important to
Sikhs, it is an eclectic monument that has grown as much of
people's devotion as from the guild craftsmen's skills to become
Sikmost sacred of the sikh religious sites. Generation after
generation has lavished praise on the art and architecture of the
golden temple and it is widely regarded as being amongst the most
tastefully decorated shrines anywhere.
Like other Sikh religious sites in India, the Golden Temple stands
there in simple majesty, the gilded splendor of its paneling, dome
and minarets shining in the morning light, silhouetted softly in
the water and etched gently across the city escape. For the Sikh
community the Harmandir Sahib Gurdwara Golden Temple is the final
spiritual "vision," journey's end or beginning and, for every
other community too, it is a shrine to be visited. |