trip details for jodphurs & jackaranda (SDM)

What is the most colourful part of adventure travel in India? This is. A Rajasthan adventure is coloured with the browns and yellows of the desert. Throw in the reds, blues and orange of the turbans and dresses, the long grey handle bar moustaches and the greens and purples of the fruit and veg. Add the orange sun setting through a desert haze and you have the full spectrum of the colour. Experience these colours in the markets of Jodhpur or by taking a Rajasthan camel safari near Jaisalmer. Perhaps the most colourful moment on this Indian adventure is feeding the thousands of rats at the Karni Mata rat temple. Colourful smells - spices, camel markets, backstreets, exotic food, rotting food, desert dust and cow dung, its all part of India overland travel. This adventure tour shows you Rajasthan warts and all, so get rid of your rose tinted glasses and witness its true colour.

what's included?

Nights 1-2: Delhi & North Rajasthan:

• Experience the hustle and bustle of Delhi
• Overland into the Thar Desert via the Maharaja city of Bikaner

Nights 3-5: Thar Desert:

• 3 nights at Jaisalmer to explore the medieval streets, the fort and the desert
• Experience the Thar Desert on an overnight camel safari with Rajasthani camel drivers

Nights 6-8: Central Rajasthan:

• Explore the blue city of Jodhpur and the mighty Meherangarh fort
• Chill out in the holy lake town of Pushkar

Nights 9-12: Rajasthan & Madhya Pradesh:

• 2 nights to discover the stunning white Maharaja city of Udaipur
• Visit the ghost city of Mandu

Nights 13-15: Maharashtra:

• Overland off the beaten tracks down tiny roads to the remote caves at Ellora and Ajanta
• Ponder on the Buddhist and Hindu caves and temples of Ajanta and Ellora
• Time to explore the old British bastion of Bombay, now India's most cosmopolitan city of Mumbai