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Please note: A full detailed itinerary is contained in the brochure.
This can be obtained by contacting Indian Romance. (Contact
Indian Romance) |
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I should emphasis that it is a busy tour with programmes nearly
everyday. So if you wish to leave out any programme out and just
relax then please do so. This is 'your' holiday. |
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Day 1: Flight to Bombay. I will meet you at the airport. Transfer to hotel.
Day 2: Flight to Bhuj. Check into Hotel Prince. After lunch, visit to Bhujodi village weavers, who produce blankets and cloth for the local community. Visit to Rabbari textile collector.
Day 3: Visit to the restored Anna Mahal museum. After lunch, workshop with Mochi (fine hookwork) embroiderer.
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Day 4: Visit to Mundra for workshop in wax-resist block printing and felt-making.
Day 5: Morning workshop with master craftsmen in Bandani (tie-dye). Afternoon - visit bazaar or continue with workshop. Own dinner.
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Day 6-8: A highlight of this tour is our stay in a village n 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 bellmaking, woodcraving and lacquer work and a full-day workshop in gold and silver-thread embroidery.
Day 9: Return to Bhuj. After lunch, workshop with master craftsmen in block printing.
Day 10/11: Travel 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.
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Day 12: Travel to Patan to see the weaving of Mushru and of Double Ikat.
Day 13: Morning 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. Own dinner.
Golden Thread Raj Extension, 6 days
Day 14: For those leaving the tour a day to relax before taking the flight to Mumbai to connect with international flight. Early start for Udaipur. We will stay in an 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.
Day 15: 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.
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Day 16: 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.
Day 17: 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. Special dinner at Palace Hotel.
Day 18: Early start for Amber Palace - we ride uphill on elephants! After viewing this magnificent example of Mogul architecture, we continue to Fatipur Sikri, the ruined sandstone city of Emperor Akbar. Own dinner.
Day 19: 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.
Day 20: 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.
Day 21: International flight home.
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CLASSIC RAJASTHAN - extension |
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6 day extension
Magical Jaisalmer on the edge of the Thar desert. The remote walled town rising out of the desert is such a wonderful experience, The golden stone built town offers a wealth of images for the painters and also a wonderful range of textiles. After 3 days here we travel to blue city of Jodphur with its formidable majestic Fort. From here we return to Delhi for our flight home. |
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Day 20/21/22/23: Remote Jaisalmer, rises out of the desert like a mirage". It was an important outpost on the trade routes between India and Central Asia. Built predominantly on the opium trade. The days price being flashed by mirrors over the desert. We are here for nearly 4 days and so have time to really relax and paint / study the textiles. We stay within the fort and can walk straight out to explore Jaisalmer. Jaisalmer is a medieval town which takes you back in history with its narrow winding streets, beautiful Jain temples and ornate, painted "havelis". At the bottom of the fort are spectacular 16th century mansions built from golden-yellow sandstone. We will visit a textile trader to see the embroideries and Textiles from this area and a silversmith A camel ride is a definately option.
Day 24/25: Take a late afternoon train for Jodphur arriving late evening. we have a full day here to explore Jhodpur the blue city of Rajasthan. The first visit of the day will be to see the magnificent 15th century Meherangarh fort and Museum (with textiles, artefacts and Royal memorabilia), explore the walled main bazaar. before departing by sleeper for Delhi.
Day 26/27 Arriving midmorning for lunch. We can chose our progtramme for the afternoon which is left free for shopping (very good shops near the hotel) or possibly a visit to the National Gallery. We have rooms to wash and change and meet for our last dinner together before departing for the airport.for our journey home.
Price includes:-
Meals: Breakfast and dinner excepting for one dinner.
Transport and transfers throughout: Except for individual choices.
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