India

An ancient civilization, India is separated from the rest of Asia by the Himalayas in the north and the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal in the south. Today, India is the seventh largest and second most populous country in the world. The country is divided into 28 states and seven union territories, and its people speak in over 200 different mother tongues. In a land of great heterogeneity, there is much to satiate explorer who strays always from the safe confines of the familiar and the known.

Incomparable diversity. A land of myriad meanings, each embroidered into the fabric of a greater reality. Here, modernity lies carelessly interwoven into the seams of omniscient ancient tradition. Yet, instead of a struggle for supremacy, both stand in the still confidence of that which has always been. The land of many faces, enigmatically beckons the wandering minstrel on his trails. This is the wonder that is India.

Yet, in a land of contradictory realities, it is not uncommon to wonder about the real India. Even as the avid explorer believes that she has chanced upon a single defining meaning of the experience of India, there is often a still undiscovered locale that will soon envelope her, to redefine her understanding of the real India...always setting the true meaning of India in some unfathomable way beyond her reach. For she is in Mark Tully’s ‘land of no full stops’. Here, all attempts to reach absolute meanings can only prove to be futile.

The contradictory realities find their expression in the heterogeneity of the train. Here, the mighty Himalayas of the north conclude in the gentle placidity of Kaniyakumari, at the southernmost tip of India. The land that covers 3,287,263 sq km is crisscrossed by many rivers, creating many moments of splendour at the union of these primordial elements. The sylvan forests of the mountain dwindle into the wondrous beauty of coastal India, rising again only to taper off into the stillness of the Great Indian Desert in the west.

In the course of it 2000-year-old history, India has often found a place in the annals of those struck by the wanderlust. Whether it was the visiting Hieun Tsang of the conquering Alexander, India had captured the imagination of the ancient world.

Today many monuments dot the county's landscape hearkening back to a glorious part. In Lothal one finds the first traces of an ancient civilization. Centuries of history envelope this site from all directions throwing out their own dimension to the history of India that has unfolded over generations.

In the north, Delhi stands testimony to the splendour of the Mughal courts. The palaces of Rajasthan in the west are contrasted by the magnificent Dravidian architecture of the South. Elsewhere, there is an explosion of tribal vibrance in the northeast. And if there is the occasional landmark that points to India's colonial heritage, then the state of Gujarat is home to landmarks that mark many epic moments in India's freedom struggle.

The wheel of time turns. Today, Modern India has experienced the impact of the Information Technology revolution. New centres of growth like Bangalore and Hyderabad lie alongside ancient sites of pilgrimage that in religious tradition have their origins in the beginning of time. In the north, temple towns like Rishikesh, Haridwar, Varanasi and Somanath call the faithful. In the south, there is the mesmerizing pull of Tirupati, Madurai and Mahabalipurum.

The tourists to India, can noway get unsatisfied, since there is so acres to see in this astronomic land that no holiday is possibly long enough to delve the whole country. The central area of India has some of the better temples and animal sanctuaries in India. With tour packages from Indian Holiday, the tourists to this grassland can check out the wonderful temples of Khajuraho, that are famous world over or the forts at Gwalior, that accept witness to the old history of this intransient land.

Indian Holiday offers beautiful tour packages to the journeyer destinations in Central India, where tourists can enjoy dining the local board, buying souvenirs at the market and illumination more about the history of the attractive land of legends and folklores. Come and explore the variegated India with Indian Holiday with its many tour packages.

A legendary train for unprecedented people. A train with historic chain and stylish conveniences. A royal train is beckoning you to blow aboard for a week of splendor. It takes you on a expedient odyssey. Bringing alive the comfort of elevated travel of the age of the Raj, the location On Wheels has been organized to suit modern needs with capital air conditioning, dreamy four channel music, interconnected telephone system in the train, a differ pantry and loiter in each coach, easy coupes with the celibacy of attached bathrooms, two quality restaurants Maharaja and Maharani, serving disjunct Indian, continental and Rajasthani cuisine, a well stocked bar, a beam and homely coach and friendly smiling attendants serving you round the clock. So what you have arrant pack people bag and come to us for train ticket.

Royal orient : The comfortable lounge, great air conditioning, crate television and video enjoyment, running hot and cold water and showers, soft channel music, the Watery Hole the well stocked bar, restaurant cars with delectable Indian and Continental bread and friendly attendants, all confirm you, that people epic voyage is as the Royal Levant itself.

Fairy queen :The Fairy Queen train has been honoured as the oldest working steam itinerary in the world by the Guinness Book of Records. It recently won the coveted National Award as the different innovative visitor product introduced. This beauty is a celebrated creation o the British firm of Kitson, Thompson and Hewitson for the East Indian Railway. It is a beguile for steam lovers all over the world.

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