Lucknow: Cultural, Architectural and Historical Wonders

Lucknow: City of La Martiniere, Cuisine, Heritage Walk, Nawab and Sufi Sojourn

goingindiaa is fully ready with very nice and experiential products to our discerning partners. This is the city where Cultural traits and customs have become legends.

Lucknow is a journey into the heart of a city that owes its rich culture to the Nawabs who were patrons of the arts. Attempts by the British to change this identity failed despite the exile of Wajid Ali Shah. The musical traditions and the dance forms continue to make their presence felt on the cultural fabric of India. Besides being called the “city of nawabs”, Lucknow is also known as The Constantinople of India, Golden City of the East and Shiraz-i-Hind.

If I talk about Lucknow, it leads us to:

  • Tea at La Martiniere
  • Evening Culinary Walk
  • Heritage Walk
  • Victorian Walk
  • Kotwara Insight
  • Tea with Nawab
  • La Martiniere Experiences
  • Village Cuisine Experience
  • Thursday Sufi Sojourn
  • Golf in Lucknow
  • Musical traditions
  • Walter Burley Griffin Tour
  • Cemeteries Tour

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JODHPUR – True Blue Royal Romance

I had decided to enjoy different facet of life – that of visiting different part of the country. This time, I would like to highlight Jodhpur – which is second largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan and has long been a popular destination among international tourists. However, surprisingly few visitors know the origins of its sobriquet, “the blue city”.

The old town is a wonderful example of vivid colours providing a photogenic backdrop to everyday life. DON’T LEAVE Jodhpur WITHOUT VISITING:

  • Romance with Blue City
  • Majesty of Mehrangarh
  • Extravagance of Umaid Bhawan
  • Fiery Kachoris and Mirchiwadas shops
  • Clock Tower market
  • Arna Jharna Museum
  • Tripolia Market
  • Tea charity
  • Heritage Walk on old part of Jodhpur

The majority of Rajasthani women wear long, colourful skirts and you can see this while visiting the shops of the Nai Sadak and examining wares on the stalls of the Sardar Market. Eye-catching, bright oranges and yellows are popular colours for their fabrics. We are here to serve you best, unique hoiday and guided tour to Jodhpur. Please feel free to write us :

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Tree House -Have you always dreamed to stay ?

Have you always dreamed to stay in a tree-house, but haven’t been able to do so, yet? We worked very hard to search best tree houses in India for you.

Tree House Hotels are the unique and most exciting, thrill and amazing experience of living in the lap of nature, surrounded by hills, valleys, jungles and wildlife. Birds are your neighbors, visiting balcony and singing song with lush green trees is the most beautiful experience one can ever have.

Self-contained, luxurious rooms dangle from tree tops at heights ranging from 40-90 ft, offering you an untarnished view of the lush green tropical haven ahead.

To have a trip of a lifetime, I have listed down few Tree House Resorts in India, which are perfectly located amidst a stretch of lush greenery and wilderness.  Please write to us for more informations and best prices.

1. Vythiri Resort, Kerala
2. Tranquil Resort – A Plantation Hideaway, Kerala
3. The Machan, Maharastra
4. Tree House Hideaway, Bandhavgarh
5. Carmelia Haven, Kerala

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Dreamy North East – India

Manipur, popularly referred to as the ‘Switzerland of India’, is nestled in the slopes of the South flowing Sub-Himalayan ranges in the north east of India. Manipur, literally meaning ‘the jewelled land’ boasts of an picturesque landscapes with misty hills, shimmering lakes, verdant valleys, gurgling rivers, and luxuriant forests. Manipur is also renowned for its rich culture and tradition, which is depicted in its art forms, handloom clothes and exquisite handicrafts.

No trip to Manipur is complete without a visit to Loktak Lake (largest freshwater lake in Northeast India, and is famous for the phumdis floating over it), Kangla Fort and People’s Museum .

World War II sites: The Battle of Imphal was one of the war’s turning points in Asia, which led to the Allied powers’ victories. A number of sites here mark this history—the Imphal War Cemetery, the Palel Airfield, the Japanese War Memorial on Red Hill and the INA Museum Complex at Moirang are among them.

Asia’s largest all women market, Ima market in Imphal: This historic, massive women-run market, in the heart of Imphal, has over 3,000 stalls selling everything from handloom to groceries.

Imphal Walks: Explore the natural and other wonders of Manipur with a guided tour.

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World’s Largest Camel and Cattle Fairs – Pushkar, Rajasthan

One of the world’s largest camel and cattle fairs, the Pushkar Fair (8–14 November 2016) packs in animal races. Bridal dress-up contests, handicrafts, and contests as quirky as the longest-moustache-wins are the main draws for this fair which attracts thousands of tourists in recent years. Held each November at the time of the Kartik Purnima full moon, Pushkar Camel Fair is one of India’s most highly-rated travel experiences, a spectacle on an epic scale, attracting more than 11,000 camels, horses and cattle and visited by over 400,000 people over a period of around fourteen days. It is a great opportunity to witness an old traditional-style Indian festival. Thousands of people go to the banks of the Pushkar Lake where the fair takes place. Men buy and sell their livestock, which includes camels, cows, sheep and goats. The women go to the stalls, full of bracelets, clothes, textiles and fabrics. A camel race starts off the festival, with music, songs and exhibitions to follow. Between these events, the most waited for is the test of how the camel is able to bring the items. In order to demonstrate, the men go up on the group of camels one after another.

The original intention behind the Pushkar Camel Fair was to attract local camel and cattle traders to do business during the holy Kartik Purnima festival, held in Pushkar around the full moon in the Hindu lunar month of Kartika. The fair has now also become a major tourist attraction.For visitors it’s an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness the colour, spectacle and carnival of one of the last great traditional melas, which brings livestock, farmers, traders and villagers from all over Rajasthan. We believe that every aspect of such an experience should be special.

Hot air balloon, it’s possible to witness the spectacle of the camel fair from above, in a hot air balloon. Skywalt offers exhilarating balloon flights over Pushkar. An International Hot Air Balloon Festival also takes place during the fair.

Nagaur Cattle Fair between 29 January and 4 February 2017. Those who has missed to see Pushkar Fair, you can also join us for an exceptional experience of Nagaur Cattle Fair, another of the great regional trading fairs, with even more camels than Pushkar and a deeply traditional feel.

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Oldest Church in North India

The Church building was built from 1819 to 1821 and is the oldest Church in North India. The Saint John the Baptist or John’s Church, is a parish church in the diocese of Agra of Church of North India, and is located Meerut, India. The parish motto Unity, Witness and Service found at the entrance serves to remind parishioners and guests alike of the purpose of this church.
The parish was founded in 1819 to serve the military garrison stationed locally. Its founder was British Army chaplain, the Rev. Henry Fischer, a Church of England clergyman, posted to Meerut, India.
The parish church of St John the Baptist is the oldest church edifice in the northern half of India. It still houses a huge but non-functioning pipe organ, which employed manually operated bellows to supply the organ with air. The wooden pews and kneelers, brass eagle lectern, marble baptistery, and stained glass windows all date back nearly two centuries.

Architecture: St John’s church building conforms to a style of English parish church architecture popular before the Gothic Revival, and is modelled on the Palladian or classical style, which was well suited to local conditions with a large open interior space for worship in which air could circulate freely in sometimes stifling temperatures. It includes an upper seating area (balcony), no longer in use. Dating back almost 200 years, renovations have changed little to the church fabric, making it a fine example of an Anglican parish church of the early 1800s.

St. John’s Church cemetery: Near to this church lies St. John’s Church cemetery. The grounds contain trees and greenery. Some of the graves are more than a century old and contain engraved headstones, carved pillars and some very elegant tombs bordering on antiquity. The older ones in the graveyard are falling apart due to weathering, and a curious visitor may have to navigate through some unfriendly underbrush and rough terrain.

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a rebellion in India against the rule of the British East India Company that ran from May 1857 to July 1859. The rebellion began as a mutiny of sepoys of the East India Company’s army on 10 May 1857, in the cantonment of the town of Meerut.

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Largest Rock Cut Buddhist Prayer Hall

The Karla Caves or Karle Caves or Karla Cells are a complex of ancient Indian Buddhist rock-cut cave shrines located in Karli near Lonavala,Maharashtra. The shrines were developed over the period – from the 2nd century BC to the 5th century AD. The oldest of the cave shrines is believed to date back to 160 BC.

This is 95km from Mumbai, close to Lonavala and off the Mumbai–Pune highway. The ceiling of the cavernous prayer hall (cave 8) is capped at about 46 feet and is about 124 feet from door to back wall. Carved pillars support the arched roof, with a stupa at the far end being the centre of all rituals. Dating back to between 60BC and 4AD, a total of 16 caves were cut from solid rock, up on a hillside. Marvel at the sculptures as you walk around the prayer hall and monastic residential spaces built in keeping with the principles of Hinayana sect. According to inscriptions translated by experts at the Archeological Survey of India, the complex largely was built on an ancient highway that linked prominent seaports of that time to major inland cities. That the site was important to people back then can be gauged by the fact that it was built using donations from devotees who lived 600km away. Today, standing up there, gazing down on the flat plain below, you can but contemplate what life could have been like for monks who retreated up here.

The Karla cave complex is built into a rocky hillside around 60 kilometres (37 mi) from Pune, with large windows cut into the rock to light the cave interiors. The caves are believed to be some of thousands of similar caves excavated in the Sahyadri Hills in the early 1st millennium AD.

The main cave features a large, intricately carved Chaitya, or prayer hall, dating back to the 1st century BC. This is among the largest rock-cut chaityas in India, measuring 45 metres (148 ft) long and up to 14 metres (46 ft) high. The hall features sculptures of both males and females, as well as animals such as lions and elephants.

A notable feature of these caves is their arched entrances and vaulted interiors. The outside facade has intricate details carved into it in an imitation of finished wood. The central motif is a large horseshoe arch. There is an Ashokan pillar at the front, with a closed stone facade and torana in between.

The caves house a Buddhist monastery dating back to the 2nd century BC. The monastery was once home to two 15-meter grand pillars.

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Maheshwar – Hub of Indian Art & Spiritual Values

If you are planning to visit Central Part of India, do not forget to visit Maheshwar and Scenic Beauty of Narmada River.

Maheshwar is a beautiful riverside town with scenic Ghats in Madhya Pradesh. The place also being visited by many foreign nationals round the year, those having strong interest in Indian art & spiritual values. The scenic beauty of the town and Narmada River is captured in loads of Bollywood and Tamil Movies.

There is a fort at Maheshwar that was constructed during the rule of the Mughal King Akbar. The Mughals were replaced by the Peshawars and in 1767 the Queen Ahilyabai of the Holkar kingdom made Maheshwar her capital city. Her rule continued up to 1795, since she defeated by British, the capital was moved to Indore.

Tourists from across the globe come here to have a look over stunning Maheshwar Fort which soars over the Narmada River, numerous temples and the picturesque Ghats. The Ghat beneath Ahilyabai fort is named after it and is the most vibrant Ghat of Maheshwar. Maheshwar Fort and its temples depict exquisite work of intricate stone carving and fine sculpturing.

Maheswar is well known for Handloom textile since 5th century and its gorgeous Maheshwari sarees. In fact, it has a bustling handloom industry that’s only getting bigger as time goes by.

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Kolkata – Experience True Bliss with Melodious Dhak & Mantra

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Kolkata – Experience True Bliss with Melodious Dhak & Mantra

There’s no place better than Kolkata if you want to experience the real charm of Durga Puja. We would all agree to that. It is the same reason why a lot of travellers come to Kolkata just to experience this Bengali festivals. While you are there in the city during the Durga Puja, here are a few things you must experience. That goes without saying, right? If you are in Kolkata during the Durga Puja and you don’t do pandal hopping, your entire trip is a waste of time. But prepared to walk a lot and to face a lot of crowd. Trust us, it’s worth going through all that. Durga Puja pandals in Kolkata are known to display some of the most vivid forms of art. Each pandal is tastefully decorated–there’s a full fledged competition between the Durga Puja committees to win the coveted award of being the best in the city. Right from using waste materials to steel, a lot of creativity and hard work goes into the making of a pandal. And what you get to see as a result is a theme-based pandal and a Durga idol to match the same. Once you start exploring these beauties, time will fly and your camera memory will be full before you know it. Experience true bliss with melodious sounds of dhak and mantra chants throughout night.

Bengalis are known to be one of the biggest foodie communities in the country. Bongs need an excuse to eat. The reason why you will get plenty of opportunities to sample some of the best flavours you can imagine.

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Shekhawati’s Havelies – World’s largest frescoes

Shekhawati’s Havelies – World’s largest magnificent frescoes 
& 
The Abandoned Mansions of Billionaires

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Shekhawati’s havelis are symbol of the rise of merchant success and now are the Abandoned Mansions of Billionaires including the likes of the steel baron Laxmi Mittal, Kumar Birla of Aditya Birla Group, pharmaceutical billionaire Ajay Piramal and Nepal’s only billionaire, Binod K Chaudhary.

With paintings covering nearly every inch of the grand havelis, the towns and villages of Shekhawati encompass the world’s largest concentration. Most Havelis were built in a similar architectural style – usually two storied buildings with two to four open courtyards arranged within a rectangular block. In fact, according to Forbes, almost 25% of India’s 100 richest were from Shekhawati.

To protect these once grand estates from crumbling further, two districts within Shekhawati
have banned the sale of the havelis to anyone who could harm their heritage look. Their aim is to conserve and promote Shekhawati as a tourist destination.

Founded by the eponymous Rajput chieftain Rao Shekha in the late 15th Century, Shekhawati prospered immensely at the turn of the 19th Century. The region reduced taxes to lure merchants and diverted all caravan trade from the nearby commercial centres of Jaipur and Bikaner. Merchants belonging to the Marwari and Bania community, a renowned ethnic trading group in India, moved into Shekhawati from the surrounding towns, and amassed great wealth through a  flourishing trade in opium, cotton and spices. Modest merchant homes started giving way to grand mansions by the end of the 19th Century.

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