Chandigarh Tour Packages, Chandigarh Sight seeing

  Chandigarh Tour Packages  

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Tour GT-102A : Chandigarh City 1 Night/2 Days Tour
Places Covered : Chandigarh Only

Day 1. Arrive Chandigarh by Train/Flight. Pickup from Chandigarh Railway station/Airport and transfer to Hotel. Afternoon visit Rock Garden and Sukhna Lake. Night at Chandigarh Hotel.
Day 2. Breakfast, morning visit Chandigarh Museum, Rose Garden and Leisure Valley. Evening drop at Chandigarh Airport/Railway station.

Standard Package	Deluxe Package
For 2 Persons : Rs 2450 Per Person	For 2 Persons : Rs 3450 Per Person
For 4 Persons : Rs 2150 Per Person	For 4 Persons : Rs 2900 Per Person
For 6 Persons : Rs 1750 Per Person	For 6 Persons : Rs 2500 Per Person
- AC Budget Hotel for 1 night    on Double sharing basis - Only Breakfast in the Meals. - AC Car for Sight seeing.	- AC 3 Star Hotel for 1 night    on Double sharing basis - Only Breakfast in the Meals. - AC Deluxe Car for Sight seeing.

Tour GT-102B : Chandigarh Anandpur 1 Night/2 Days Tour
Places Covered : Chandigarh, Anandpur Sahib

Day 1. Arrive Chandigarh by Train/Flight. Pickup from Chandigarh Railway station/Airport and transfer to Hotel. Afternoon visit Rock Garden and Sukhna Lake. Night at Chandigarh Hotel.
Day 2. Breakfast, morning drive for Anandpur Sahib and visit Takht Sri Keshgarh Sahib & Virasat-e-Khalsa (Khalsa Heritage Memorial). Afternoon drive back to Chandigarh and drop at Railway station/Airport.

Standard Package	Deluxe Package
For 2 Persons : Rs 2800 Per Person	For 2 Persons : Rs 3800 Per Person
For 4 Persons : Rs 2550 Per Person	For 4 Persons : Rs 3300 Per Person
For 6 Persons : Rs 2050 Per Person	For 6 Persons : Rs 2800 Per Person
- AC Budget Hotel for 1 night    on Double sharing basis - Only Breakfast in the Meals. - AC Car for Sight seeing.	- AC 3 Star Hotel for 1 night    on Double sharing basis - Only Breakfast in the Meals. - AC Deluxe Car for Sight seeing.

Tour GT-102C : Chandigarh and Gurudwara Tour 2 Nights/3 Days
Places Covered : Chandigarh, Anandpur Sahib and Fatehgarh Sahib.

Day 1. Arrive Chandigarh by Train/Flight. Pickup from Chandigarh Railway station/Airport and transfer to Hotel. Afternoon visit Rock Garden and Sukhna Lake. Night at Hotel.
Day 2. Breakfast, morning drive for Anandpur Sahib and visit Takht Sri Keshgarh Sahib & Virasat-e-Khalsa (Khalsa Heritage Memorial Sri Anandpur Sahib). Evening drive back to Chandigarh. Night at Chandigarh Hotel.
Day 3. Breakfast, morning drive for Fatehgarh Sahib to visit Gurudwara Fatehgarh Sahib, Gurudwara Bhora Sahib, Gurudwara Burj Mata Gujri and Gurudwara Shahid Ganj. Evening drive back to Chandigarh & drop at Railway station/Airport.

Standard Package	Deluxe Package
For 2 Persons : Rs 4750 Per Person	For 2 Persons : Rs 7050 Per Person
For 4 Persons : Rs 4600 Per Person	For 4 Persons : Rs 6100 Per Person
For 6 Persons : Rs 3800 Per Person	For 6 Persons : Rs 5300 Per Person
- AC Budget Hotel for 2 nights    on Double sharing basis - Only Breakfast in the Meals. - AC Car for Sight seeing.	- AC 3 Star Hotel for 2 nights    on Double sharing basis - Only Breakfast in the Meals. - AC Deluxe Car for Sight seeing.

Tour GT-102D : Chandigarh Cultural 2 Nights/3 Days Tour
Places Covered : Chandigarh, Anandpur Sahib and Pinjore.

Day 1. Arrive Chandigarh by Train/Flight. Pickup from Chandigarh Railway station/Airport and transfer to Hotel. Afternoon visit Rock Garden and Sukhna Lake. Night at Hotel.
Day 2. Breakfast, morning drive for Mohali to visit Chappar Chiri - A world-class Heritage Memorial. Later drive for Anandpur Sahib to visit Virasat-e-Khalsa (Khalsa Heritage Memorial at Sri Anandpur Sahib). Evening drive back to Chandigarh. Night at Chandigarh Hotel.
Day 3. Breakfast, morning drive for Pinjore to visit Pinjore Gardens (also known as Yadavindra Gardens). Evening drop at Chandigarh Railway station/Airport.

Standard Package	Deluxe Package
For 2 Persons : Rs 4350 Per Person	For 2 Persons : Rs 6450 Per Person
For 4 Persons : Rs 4150 Per Person	For 4 Persons : Rs 5650 Per Person
For 6 Persons : Rs 3500 Per Person	For 6 Persons : Rs 4950 Per Person
- AC Budget Hotel for 2 nights    on Double sharing basis - Only Breakfast in the Meals. - AC Car for Sight seeing.	- AC 3 Star Hotel for 2 nights    on Double sharing basis - Only Breakfast in the Meals. - AC Deluxe Car for Sight seeing.

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Punjab Farm House/ Village Tours

Punjab Farmhouse Tour

Punjab Farmhouse combines the comforts of staying in a modern furnished accommodation with the hospitality of a Punjabi family within the traditions, culture and environment. You can stay in the Punjabi Farmhouse and experience the real Punjabi life, food, customs and rituals.

You can also experience the Farmhouse or traditional rural life of Punjab along with its agricultural and rural aspects.

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Devotees offer toy plane at Gurudwara Talhan to go abroad

A large number of devotees, seeking greener pastures abroad, head towards a Gurudwara devoted to Sant Baba Nihal Singh Shaheedan in Village Talhan of Punjab's Doaba region. Thousands of individuals in Doaba region hold this holy shrine in high-esteem. And, these devotees include many of those who have long been nurturing a dream to get a visa to go abroad but couldn't get it. The popular feeling about this Gurudwara is that anyone offering a toy plane here can have his or her wish to go abroad fulfilled. Hence a lot of people visit this holy shrine and make a wish to go abroad. For this, the devotees make an offering of toy planes; inscribed with names of different carriers. Devotees buy these toy planes from the shops outside this Gurudwara and they offer it to Sri Guru Granth Sahib.

It all started a few months back, when the word spread that wishes of settling abroad would be fulfilled if one offered a toy plane at the shrine. On Sundays, about 40-50 planes are offered. In most cases, devotees who wish to fly to a particular country offer a toy plane of the airline of that country.

In Doaba region, where going abroad is dream of most people, a large number of people have an unshakable faith in the Gurudwara.

It has become a difficult task for the Gurudwara authorities to store so many toy planes. Punjabi youth, who dream of greener pastures abroad, come in large numbers after they hear stories of wishes of their friends to settle abroad being fulfilled after they offered planes at the Talhan Gurudwara.

"Whenever somebody's wish of going abroad is fulfilled, they come here at the Gurudwara to offer a plane. Punjabis from all parts of the world - England, America, Canada and many other countries come here," said one young devotee.

For the Punjabi youth, spending three to 10 dollars in buying a toy airplane hardly matters, if it increases the possibility of ultimately realizing a million-dollar dream.

Sikh guru in Heroes of Environment list

Heaping praises on environmentalist Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal for launching a campaign to clean up the polluted 'Kali Bein' in Punjab, Time magazine has profiled the Sikh sect leader as one of the 30 'Heroes of Environment' selected from across the globe. Describing Seechewal as the man 'who set out to clean up this mess', the magazine lauded him for mobilising people to launch a movement that taught the people why they should clean the 'Kali Bein'.

'We have proved that it is possible to restore our rivers to a pristine condition if we all come together,' Seechewal told the Time magazine.

'It is time to do that on a bigger scale,' he said.

'Kali Bein', the 160-km-long river in Hoshiarpur district in Punjab, was reduced to a filthy drain into which people from more than six towns and 40 villages emptied their waste, leaving neighbouring farmlands parched. The river was revived a couple of years back after Seechewal and his followers took up the cause and raised funds to clean the river, which is now a favourite picnic spot.

Sikhs believe that Guru Nanak Dev attained enlightenment after taking a dip in 'Kali Bein' 500 years back before founding Sikhism.

'In 2000, Seechawal, a Sikh holy man, set out to clean up the mess in the river. The scale of the task was gigantic-volunteers cleared the entire riverbed of water hyacinth and silt, and built riverbanks and roads alongside the river,' the magazine wrote.

Seechawal launched a public-awareness campaign asking the villagers to dispose of their sewage elsewhere and some people revived traditional methods of waste disposal and treatment.

'A government order to divert water from a nearby canal was eventually obtained. As the riverbed was cleared, natural springs revived and the river began to fill up. Since then trees have been planted along its banks and fishing has been preserve biodiversity,' the magazine said.

Hotel Ramgarh Fort near Chandigarh has tallest Door in country

It is official. The door of the Fort at Ramgarh is the tallest door in the country higher than even the gate of Fatehpur Sikri near Agra. The latest edition of the Limca Book of Records which is the Indian equivalent to the Guinness Book of Records, lists the entry of the “tallest door” at page number 204.

The wooden door guarding the 350-year-old Ramgarh Fort near Chandigarh measures 37ft in height and 14½ ft in width.

The “Buland Darwaza” at Fatehpur Sikri stands 120 ft tall, including the steps and the constructed area but the actual door is only 23 ft. The door at the Bathinda fort in Punjab is 26 feet high.

Interestingly, the doors of forts and palaces were kept exceptionally tall in previous centuries so that the rajas sitting on elephants could enter without dismounting. Hence they were often called hathi deorhi.

The door of the fort is a replica of the original door, which was built 300 years back by the Chandel Rajput dynasty but broken during the 1857 mutiny. The replica was reconstructed in late 1980, by Kanwar Mohan Singh, a scion of the former ruling family of Ramgarh, is now a part of the premises converted into a heritage hotel. Each of its two panels weighs 21 quintals despite which, it can be easily closed and opened. About 2000 man-days were spent in putting the new door together with 343 custom-made copper plates and 343 spikes on it.

Spikes were used on the doors in olden days so that these could not be broken by an attacking army with the help of elephants banging their heads on it.

Punjabi Jutti no more a popular wear

Punjabi Jutti was known for its immaculate embroidery and varied hues which made it a popular wear for the people of the region for all types of occasions.But today it appears to be on its way out in absence of any government support and in face of fashion trends which are too fast-paced for the practitioners of this trade to keep abreast of, almost bringing down curtain on this century-old tradition.

A survey revealed that this handicraft business are fast shrinking. The Punjabi Jutti market near the Quila Mubarak in Patiala, which once enjoyed an enviable reputation for this trade, is finding the old hands there no more keen on this craft. Thousands of families involved in making these Jutti since 19th century are unable to earn enough to keep their body and soul together and are feeling compelled to bid adieu to their trade.

“The Jutti was in a great demand in early 60s and 70s, but 90 onwards, there was a decline in its popularity. Due to new trends in fashion, it was no more a daily wear. Although we tried our level best to keep pace with these trends, but due to lack of enough funds at our disposal and frequent changes in fashion, we failed to cater to the need,” revealed some of the families involved in the trade said.

Apart from this, the new taxes on the raw material like leather has further tightened the noose around this business. Earlier, there was no tax on leather, but now it has been brought under the ambit of Vat, thus leaving the makers of these Jutti with no option but to bow out. Earlier, this business was allowed some subsidies too. But now with subsidy gone and on the top of it extra levies slapped, the margins have come down drastically.Revealed the owner of Punjabi Jutti House, Jagdish Kumar, “Earlier, one shopkeeper used to have a nearly Rs 3-5 lakh turnover every year, but now it has come down by 70 pc and our commerce with various distributors from Delhi, Gurgaon and Bombay has also declined.”