Enjoy colours of Holi in Jaipur

Tips for Travellers for Planning their Tour

Itinerary

Day 01 Arrive Jaipur

On arrival at Jaipur airport, you will be meet our representative and transferred to hotel.

Jaipur – The Pink City: Jaipur needed a fresh coat of paint to welcome its distinguished guest the Prince of Wales in 1905-6. The contractor inability to supply any other colour in the required quantity compelled the choice of pink shade for its walls. A contractor’s compulsion famed Jaipur to Pink city. Since then, the PINK colour is associated with hospitality in Rajput culture. Overnight in Jaipur.

Meal: No meal

Day 02 Jaipur (Holika Dahan)

After breakfast, you will proceed for an excursion tour of Amber fort.

We will first drive to Amber Fort, the ancient capital that preceded Jaipur. Originally built in the 11th century AD and expanded in size and scope by succeeding dynasties and their rulers, Amber is a fortress town of visual awesomeness. You will have an opportunity to hike to the fort and In Amer Fort visit Chamber of Mirrors in Amber Fort.

(We do not promote or encourage Elephant ride at the Amber Fort. If you would like to include it in the program, this can be done at a supplement cost).

Later we will drive to visit the City Palace and Observatory (Jantar Mantar), en-route you can see a Palace of Wind for Photo stop. Jaipur is the capital of Rajasthan and its centrepiece is the City Palace, home even today of the royal family, and known for its clutch of excellent private museums that display royal memorabilia, particularly armaments, art, books, costumes and textiles. Overnight in Jaipur.

Meal: Breakfast

Day 03 Jaipur (Happy Holi)

 After breakfast, we shall organise Holi celebration. Holi is a Hindu spring festival in India, also known as the festival of colours or the festival of sharing the love. The festival signifies the victory of good over evil, the arrival of spring, end of winter, and for many a festive day to meet others, play and laugh, forget and forgive, and repair broken relationships, and is also celebrated as a thanksgiving for a good harvest. It lasts for two days starting on the Purnima (Full Moon Day) falling in the Bikram Sambat Hindu Calendar month of Falgun, which falls somewhere between the end of February and the middle of March in the Gregorian calendar. The first day is known as Holika Dahan or Chhoti Holi and the second as Rangwali Holi, Dhuleti, Dhulandi or Dhulivandan. Today people through colours on each other. Overnight in Jaipur.

Meal: Breakfast

Day 04 Depart Jaipur

After breakfast morning you will be met & transferred to the airport to board a flight to onward destination.