Tour Highlights

Day 1 (12 April’12 - Arrive Amritsar - By: International Flight)

Arrive Amritsar
On arrival, check in at your hotel at NOON on your own.

Amritsar - With a serene presence of Golden Temple - a major pilgrimage place and holy city of Sikhs, Amritsar radiates a spiritual calmness and faith that people just bow their heads in sheer reverence.

The spiritual temporal centre of Sikh culture, Amritsar derives its name from the name of pool around the Golden Temple. The "holy pool of nectar" (Amrit: elixir; Sar: (short for Sarovar/ lake).

Globally renowned for Golden Temple and for the tragedy of Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar is one of the liveliest tourist destinations in India.

The Luxury Holidays services starts with a city tour of Amritsar.

1300 Hrs: Visit Jalianwala Bagh, where during the British rule in India, General Dyer opened fire on innocent people causing a grave massacre. This place, whose walls bear the bullet marks of this tragedy, is now a national monument.

1400 Hrs: Visit the "Ranjeet Panorama". The main attraction of the panorama is a gigantic 12 meters tall and 100 meters long panoramic painting depicting six major battle expeditions of the Maharaja. The battle expeditions depicted in the painting are supplemented by large circular foreground diorama displaying numerous mannequins of prominent warriors, soldiers, animals, weapons and so on. A specially designed creative illumination of the large painting and the foreground diorama is supported by battle - field.

1530 Hrs: Take an excursion to the Wagah on the Indo-Pak border to witness the ‘Change of Guard’ ceremony. Everyday through out the year, just before sunset, a flag lowering ceremony takes place at the Wagah Border between India and Pakistan.

The ceremony lasts for around 45 minutes in total. It starts with high patriotic spirits from both sides of the border. Soldiers march towards the gate at the border, which is thrown open when they reach there. The soldiers salute each other and start lowering the flags.

The flags are lowered at the same time. The soldiers retrieve and fold the flags, the gate slams shut, and a trumpet sounds the end of the ceremony. The soldiers then return with their country's respective flag.

2030 Hrs: Visit "The Golden Temple" (Sri Akal Takht Sahib and Sri Darbar Harmandir Sahib), situated in Amritsar, it is the most sacred Temple of Sikhs. Te place is also a symbol of the magnificence and strength of Sikh people all over the world. The evolution of Darbar Sahib, has entwined the history and ideology of Sikhism.

Day 2 - Delhi (13 April’12 - Anandpur Sahib)

0600 Hrs: Morning get ready to board the train “On the Foot Steps of Guru”.

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