Delhi

Delhi is the political, intellectual and cultural capital of India. The city reveals extravagance and austerity, order and chaos. Your tour of Delhi will take you through the old and new face of the capital of India.
Old Delhi – Old Delhi is the 300-year-old walled city built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jehan in 1648 as his capital.  The focus of the city is the magnificent Red Fort and the Jama Mosque built of red sandstone. Drive past the Red Fort from where the Prime Minister of India addresses the nation on India’s Independence Day. Visit Jama Masjid, the most elegant mosque in India that stands high on a hillock. In between and around these two focal points of the 17^th century city is a thriving modern city in a medieval setting. This area once had a tree-lined broad central avenue, with a canal dividing the thoroughfare.
On our way back visit Raj Ghat, Mahatama Gandhi’s shrine and then drive past Kotla Firoze Shah, ruins of a yet another 14^th century fort.
New Delhi- New Delhi is the early 20^th century British capital designed by Sir Edward Lutyens and Herbert Baker.  Drive past the President’s House, the Rashtrapati Bhavan and the two flanking Secretariat buildings – the nerve centre of government activity. Driving down this hillock is the India Gate, the great memorial arch built to commemorate the slain heroes of World War-I and Indo-Afghan War. Around India Gate are palaces of some of the erstwhile Indian princely states that are now public offices and museums.