Family Holiday in India

Take an overnight flight to New Delhi.

On arrival in Delhi you will be met and transferred to your hotel. Meet your driver who will be with you for your whole holiday, then put your feet up, settle in and get ready for the adventure ahead.

Set off this morning to experience a bit of Delhi life. Start with a cycle rickshaw ride through the streets of Old Delhi and visit spice markets and a traditional perfume shop. In the afternoon visit the Indian Rail Museum, a sprawling 11 acres where kids can get to ride in the toy train, and spend some relaxing time in Delhi’s central park, Lodi Gardens.

Your driver will pick you up at the hotel for the 3.5 hour drive to Agra to visit the Taj Mahal and enjoy a guided Mughal Heritage walking tour to some of the city’s other interesting sites.

Leave Agra this morning, and after stopping at the deserted city of Fatehpur Sikri, continue on to the Ranthambore National Park, one of the most beautiful tiger reserves in India.

You will arrive at your lodge in time for lunch, so check in and spend the afternoon enjoying the surroundings.

Step into the Jungle Book today in Ranthambore, one of the parks in India where you are more likely to spot a tiger. There’s also plenty of other wildlife to see on your two jeep safaris (morning and evening) such as leopards, hyenas, jackals, sloth bears, and marsh crocodiles.

The morning’s drive is 3-4 hours to India’s Pink City of Jaipur. After checking in to your hotel we will take you to the small town of Sanganer for a textile workshop where you can make your own souvenirs with traditional block printing.

Your guide will take you on a private tour of Jaipur to visit the milk market, City Palace and Museum, the traditional astronomical observatory of Jantar Mantar and the Palace of Winds.

In the evening visit a local home to learn kite flying or pigeon flying (depending on the time of year), and have dinner with the family.

After a morning visit to the fascinating Amber Fort, enjoy a one-hour rural cycle ride to the tented camp at Dera Amer where you can spend time bathing and feeding the camp’s tame elephant.

Leave civilisation today and drive out into the desert to camp out on sand dunes. After settling into your tents, ride out on camels to another nearby sand dune where dinner and live folk music has been laid out for you. Traditional music is lively here and you might just want to get up for a dance.

From your desert camp it is a 1-2 hour drive to the blue city of Jodhpur. After checking into your hotel, your guide will give you a private afternoon tour, including the magnificent Mehrangarh Fort which looms over the blue city.

Set off on a jeep ride through the countryside outside Jodhpur, driving on camel cart tracks through Bishnoi (Hindu) villages to meet local communities in their homes, see craftsmen at work and enjoy a picnic. There’s also plenty of wildlife to see out here.

The morning drive to Deogarh takes about 3-4 hours, and after checking into your hotel head out to explore the nearby villages and beautiful countryside with its lakes and abandoned forts.

No trip to India is complete without the experience of riding a local train, so this morning we take you on a short train ride through the nearby hills. Its then a 1-hour drive to Ranakpur to see the beautiful Jain temples and have lunch before continuing 2 hours to Udaipur.

Your guide will take you for a private tour of India’s City of Lakes, visiting palaces, gardens and temples.

Check out of your hotel before 12 noon, and we will drive you to Udaipur airport to fly back to Delhi. At Delhi we will take you to a nearby airport hotel to connect with your return flight home.