Abercrombie & Kent Splendours of the Golden Triangle

• No single supplements if booked early.
• View the Taj Mahal at sunrise and sunset.
• Spend three nights each in Delhi, Udaipur, and Jaipur.
• Enjoy a sunset boat ride on Lake Pichola.
• Discover the old and new faces of Delhi.
• View the jewel of Jaipur, the Amber Fort

• Design your Day® on Days 3, 6 & 9
• Five-star luxury accommodation
• Resident tour director & English-speaking expert local guides
• Airport meet & greet & return private transfers
• Entrance fees, taxes & tips, & excursions as stated
• Domestic flights
• Welcome & farewell dinners
• 11 breakfasts, 1 lunch & 2 dinners
• Wifi in accommodation
• Scenic sundowner

Day 1: Arrive in New Delhi, India

Touch down in New Delhi, where you are met and transferred to your hotel.

Day 2: Old & New Delhi

A busy day taking in the sights of Old and New Delhi, and visiting the AKP-supported Deepalaya School. Visit Jama Masjid, the largest Indian mosque, then the Red Fort for its teeming bazaars. You’ll drive past the cremation sites of Gandhi and Nehru. Then it’s over to New Delhi to Humayun’s Tomb. You can’t miss the 42-metre-high stone arch of India Gate, before a drive along Rajpath, flanked by ornamental ponds. Try to glimpse the Rashtrapati Bhawan. Enjoy a welcome dinner this evening with your group.

Day 3: New Delhi

Today, Design your Day® – giving you the freedom to choose the experience that is best suited to you. Select from the following options:

Option 1: Seek out Sikhism

Option 2: Get spicy with Indian cuisine

Option 3: View modern art in one of the world’s biggest galleries

Spend the afternoon at your leisure.

Day 4: New Delhi – Udaipur

This morning, transfer to the airport and fly to Udaipur, India’s most romantic city. Upon arrival, you will be met and transferred to your hotel and from here you can explore the tumbling, whitewashed mansions and Aravalli Hills. At sunset take a boat ride on the placid, shimmering waters of Lake Pichola. From the boat, view the city rising majestically above the lake in the middle of the Rajasthan desert. Be sure to visit the Jag Mandir Palace – a second island palace in the middle of the lake. You might recognise it from the 1983 Bond film, Octopussy.

Day 5: Udaipur

Enjoy a sumptuous breakfast before a morning city tour of Udaipur. Be amazed at the enormous City Palace and the paintings, mosaics, chhatries, and architecturally brilliant façade. Visit the Crystal Gallery, which houses crystal ornaments, fountains, crockery, and furniture. Saheliyon-ki-Bari, ‘The Garden of the Maids of Honour’, is a lavish tribute to the 48 ladies in waiting who formed part of a royal dowry. Spend your afternoon as you choose: perhaps visiting Hansraj Children’s Home, a residential school where an A&K Philanthropy project is improving facilities.

Day 6: Udaipur

Today, Design your Day® – giving you the freedom to choose the experience that is best suited to you. Select from the following options:

Option 1: Hop in the saddle for the best views

Option 2: Tickle the taste buds with traditional cuisine

Spend the afternoon at your leisure.

Day 7: Udaipur – Jaipur

This morning, transfer to the airport and fly the one hour to Jaipur. Upon arrival, you will be met and transferred to your hotel. Spend the afternoon at your leisure.

Day 8: Jaipur

Today is all about understanding the city, starting with a tour of the Amber Fort, with its distinctive Mughal architecture. Initiated in 1600 by Raja Man Singh, the fort was added to over the years by subsequent rulers. After lunch, it’s time for a quick photo at Hawa Mahal (also known as the ‘Palace of Winds’), perhaps Jaipur’s most famous building, with its red and pink façade. Head to City Palace, a large complex, and then end your tour at the Jantar Mantar Observatory.

Day 9: Jaipur

Today, Design your Day® – giving you the freedom to choose the experience that is best suited to you. Select from the following options:

Option 1: Spot the leopard

Option 2: Hike in the foothills of the Amer

Option 3: Stride out on a heritage water walk

Spend the afternoon at your leisure.

Day 10: Jaipur – Fatehpur Sikri – Agra

It’s time to head to Agra, stopping off at the deserted Mughal City of Fatehpur Sikri. Located in Uttar Pradesh, Fatehpur Sikri shared imperial duties with Agra and is regarded as Emperor Akbar’s crowning architectural legacy. Its palaces, halls, and masjids or mosques satisfied his aesthetic impulses, so typical of Mughals, and so intriguing to us still. From here, head to Agra and check in at your hotel. Tonight, visit the Taj Mahal at sunset and drink in the view. Then, join your group for a farewell dinner.

Day 11: Agra – New Delhi

One visit to the Taj Mahal is never enough, so rise early to wonder at the breath-taking monument in a moment of peace before sunrise. Then it’s time to return to your hotel for breakfast. Once you’ve eaten, head to Agra Fort on the bend of the River Yamuna, almost in the heart of the town. Built by the great Mughal emperor Akbar I as his citadel between 1565 and 1573, it has imposing gates and red sandstone walls – a beautiful example of Indian architecture.

Day 12: Depart New Delhi

After breakfast, transfer to Delhi airport and depart for the UK.

Holiday prices are fluid and dynamic and may be changed at a moment’s notice, prior to booking, at which point they are confirmed. Please call the team free on 0800 707 6229 for more departure dates available and a quote.

Flights

To provide you with flexibility and the latest flight offers, we don’t include international flights. Our specialists will be able to find the best travel options to suit you.

Travelling solo?

Book early and the first four solo places won’t pay any single supplement. The same journey, the same luxury, guaranteed at the same price.

Guaranteed departures

As long as we have at least two people booked on an A&K Escorted Tour, it will take place. So you don’t need to worry about a last-minute phone call saying your holiday has to be cancelled. If you’re committed to going, then so are we.