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 Cuisine and Cooking Tour

Punjabi Cooking Tour

Punjabi Cooking Tour - 1 Night/2 Days :

Day 1. Pickup from Amritsar Railway station and transfer to hotel, Later visit Golden Temple Amritsar, Dinner & night at hotel
Day 2. Breakfast, Attend Punjabi Cooking class and learn how to cook Punjabi Dishes. Lunch and Tea at the class only. Evening drop at Railway station Amritsar.

Option : Tour can be arranged from Delhi also (Delhi-Amritsar Train Tour) :

Amritsar Food Tour  : 2 Nights/3 Days :

Day 1. Pickup from Amritsar Railway station and transfer to hotel, Later visit Golden Temple Amritsar, Dinner & night at hotel
Day 2. Breakfast, Attend Punjabi Cooking class and learn how to cook Punjabi Dishes. Lunch and Tea at the class only, Dinner &  night at hotel. 
Day 3. Breakfast, Full day tour of a Punjab Village experiencing the real & actual life of a traditional Punjab village and Punjabi Food. Evening drop at Railway station Amritsar.

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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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Chandigarh Rock Garden will sell sculptures

The Chandigarh administration has approved the beautification and development plan for the Rock Garden. Proposed by its founder creator Nek Chand, the structural re designing is meant to improve the aesthetic view of the entire garden. Low height sculptures will also be sold at the Rock Garden for tourists.

UT Home-cum-Tourism Secretary, Mr. Ram Niwas today chaired a meeting regarding the beautification and development of Rock Garden in which various proposals put forward by Sh. Nek Chand for adding more artistic value to the garden were discussed .The Structural Re -designing would be undertaken in order to improve the aesthetic view of the entire garden .Similarly some low height sculptures will be planned apart from establishment within the premises of Rock Garden which would facilitate the tourists to take back memories of Chandigarh.

Sikhs make Guinness size statement with Blood

More than three hundred years after the tenth Sikh Master, Guru Gobind Singh ji, founded the Khalsa amid the hilly terrains of Sri Anandpur Sahib, this holy town once again gift wrapped another great gift to the humanity from the Sikh community -- the world's largest ever blood donation camp.

As long serpentine queues of hundreds of donors on Hola Mohalla, March 11 2009, continued till late Tuesday night, each over enthusiastic to stress Sikhism's message of universal brotherhood and welfare of all (Sarbat Da Bhala), blood unit count crossed the figure of 20,000 and could well have touched 25,000, shattering the earlier Guinness Book record of 13,000 plus units collected in a single day.

Backed by Sri Akal Takht Sahib and other Sikh temporal seats, and enjoying patronage of more than a hundred Sikh organisations, the blood donation drive broke all barriers of age, gender, caste and economic status as young and old, poor and rich, men and women awaited patiently their turn to make a statement with blood at a time when much of it is being shed across the world in the name of religion.

At a time when rest of India was busy playing Holi with colors or cow dung, the Sikh community was making a statement with this drive. 25,000 units of blood in flat 24 hours was the target, and the organizers, led from the front by Akal Purakh Ki Fauj outfit, had made sure that all mandatory requirements of the administrators of Guinness Records are fulfilled and cameras keep a record of all donors, quality checks are stringent, medical care at its best and safe blood keeping practices are followed.

The sheer scale of logistics was mind boggling as the camp spilled over on to two lakh square feet of makeshift tents, 700 beds divided in 14 blocks of 50 beds each, and averaging 2,500 donations in one hour. All this effort was possible, thanks to an army of 8,000 volunteers, 3000 paramedical staff and 100 doctors deployed for the camp. Army personnel from Jalandhar and Chandi Mandir were among the teams collecting units.

The Holla Mohalla festival attracts lakhs of pilgrims from all over Punjab and the rest of the country and is the festival of truth, courage, bravery and service. The milling crowds of Sikhs who came to know of the camp added largely to the success of the effort, monitored for Guinness record purposes.

Sikh enthusiasts had come from, thanks to the massive mobilization campaign to ply blood donors, as far as Maharashtra, UP, Uttarkhand, Jammu and Kashmir and Haryana.

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.

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.”

Sikh Tourism introduces Punjab Village Tour

Sikh Tourism has introduced a new travel package "Punjab Village Tour" which will take you to Sikh Cultural, Religious, Rural & Heritage life of Punjab Cities of Patiala, Amritsar, Anandpur and Chandigarh along with darshan of Golden Temple, Anandpur Sahib and Gurudwaras of Delhi.

People have visited the cities of Chandigarh, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Patiala and Amritsar but may not have seen the actual life of a lively Punjab. For a traveler, Punjab is a wonderful tourist destination and especially if your visit a countryside place or Pind (village)is what you wish to explore on your Punjab Village Tour, spend some in a traditional Punjab village.

During this tour, a traveller will be shown the actual daily life of a villager, given homemade food, could participate in the local works like carpentary, ploughing, cow milking, clay pottery, etc. They could also see the work being done on handicrafts like Phulkari, utensil making, wood work, etc.

For more details, see at http://www.sikhtourism.com/punjab-village-tour.htm

Punjabi wedding hot on India and Punjab tourism

India's only planned city, Chandigarh, has been projected as an ideal destination to get married at the ongoing World Travel Mart (WTM) in London to cash in on the craze for the big, fat Punjabi wedding among non-resident Indians (NRIs) and foreigners.

"Chandigarh tourism has decided to adopt more novel and innovative measures like wedding tourism to promote the city as the tourism hub of north India," the city's Home and Tourism Secretary Krishna Mohan, who is visiting the WTM, said Wednesday.

He said wedding ceremonies could be facilitated in collaboration with hotels and resorts in and around the city.

"Indian weddings are occasions to behold and Chandigarh is particularly known for its glamorous and graceful wedding ceremonies. European visitors in particular relish such occasions and Chandigarh tourism is in the process of facilitating more foreign visitors for these ceremonies," the home secretary said.

Mohan said that Chandigarh was not only a tourist attraction for its architectural beauty but also for medical and sports tourism. The city had excellent facilities for golf, tennis, cricket and other sports.
Chandigarh has recently been placed on the tentative list of World heritage sites by UNESCO, becoming the first Indian city to make it to the list.

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