Culinary Tour of India with Chef : December 2015
This culinary tour with a chef will take you to Delhi, Agra, Jaipur and Jodhpur in 8 days. These culinary tours are great choice for foodies and are eclectic mixture of memorable activities like food walks, cooking demos, sightseeing, adventure and introduction to culture and history of India in one compact package. One major attraction o this culinary tour in December will be camping in desert in Jodhpur. The group size is kept small to ensure maximum attention to detail. All the culinary activities included in the tour will be led by Rajeev and his crew. Last date for booking a slot in this tour is 25th October.
Places covered:
New Delhi, Agra, Jaipur and Jodhpur.
Activities:
Food tours, cooking classes, playtime with elephants, desert safaris, introduction to spices. A professional photographer will stay with group to take their pictures during the tour and to help guests take some high quality pictures themselves.
Mode of transport:
By Road
Accomodation:
A mix of best heritage and boutique hotels in Delhi, Agra & Jaipur. Camp site in Jodhpur.
Meals:
All meals included from food tours, top specialty restaurants and hotels.
Sightseeing:
Major tourist attractions of all cities in addition to some hidden gems on the way.
Cost:
US $ 2250 per person on twin sharing basis inclusive of all taxes.
Maximum group size:
15
Duration:
8 days, 8 nights.
Dates:
Reporting date 13th December. Official tour from 14th December till 21st December 2015
Last date for booking:
25th October 2015
Contact:
Email – info@indiafoodtour.com , Phone +91 98106 45418
Travel Itinerary
On 13th December, a day before the tour officially starts, all the guests will be taken for a special welcome dinner with Rajeev . This one will be a gourmet dinner in one of best restaurants in New Delhi and a way to introduce guests with each other in an informal setting. Rajeev and his crew will provide them with a a few details and guidelines for the trip before it officially begins a day later.
Delhi: Delhi Food Tour
This culinary tour will officially begin with a full day food tour of Delhi. This tour which is the top ranked culinary tour service in Delhi will serve as a great introduction to Indian food and culture and will help set the tone for rest of your trip to India. There will be approximately 16-18 different Indian food dishes from different Indian cuisines and you’ll visit up to 10 different food joints in Old Delhi, Central and South Delhi. All of the food joints that you’ll visit have been in business for generations and are famous for their quality of food. The oldest place in the list is in business for 110 years and youngest for 40. You’ll sample delicacies like samosa, lassi, butter chicken, kulfi (Indian ice creams), melt in m0uth kebabs and much more. The Old Delhi part of the tour will take you through the old, narrow streets of medieval Delhi marked by old mansions, centuries old market and thousands of people going on with their daily routines. Each lane in this area is a market for different commodity like invitation cards, spices, bicycles, cameras, utensils, vegetables, clothes , shoes, books and much more. The food tour will also include a visit to Spice Market of Delhi in which the you will learn about various kinds of spices used in Indian cooking and spending a few minutes inside a temple which feeds more than 10000 people every day.
ACTIVITIES: Food tour of Delhi, sightseeing
MEALS: Breakfast in hotel. Lunch and dinner during food tour
Delhi: Sights of Delhi
It’s time to cook some of the things that you sampled the day before in a half day cooking class led by a chef and his family. The class will begin with making of masala chai (Indian tea) along with some fried Indian snacks, pakodas which are best enjoyed hot. Enjoy your piping hot chai with pakodas as the chef gives you an introduction about Indian food and he things to expect during the cooking class. Then it’ll be the time to don the aprons and start cooking. You’ll learn to cook proper Indian meals consisting of pulao, daaal (lentils), egg plant,raita, rotis (flat Indian breads), stuffed paranthas (stuffed and fried rotis), vegtables and more. Dessert will be in form of halwa. Non-vegetarian food can also be covered in form of butter chicken, chicken tikka, mutton curry etc. The cooking class will end with a meal of all the things cooked by you. All the participants will also receive a small gift hamper of some of the basic Indian spices used in a typical north-Indian kitchen. After the cooking class, you will leave to visit Humayun’s Tomb and Akshardham Temple. The sightseeing will end with India Gate and Rajpath . This area is the favourite family picnic spot for residents of New Delhi and is quite picturesque, specially after dark.
ACTIVITIES: Introduction to spice, Cooking class, Delhi sightseeing
MEALS: Breakfast and Dinner in hotel, lunch during cooking class.
Delhi-Agra: Taj Mahal
Wake up early and get in to your vehicle for a 3 hours drive to Agra. Leave your luggage at the hotel and reach Taj Mahal, one of the 7 wonders of the world. According to most people, it looks much better in real life than in photos. Enjoy your time there, soaking in all the sights and thousands of small but mind blowing details that most people miss without someone to tell them. Take a walk in the gardens and enjoy the play of water in fountains which increase it’s beauty many times over. Sit on the marble bench and get your photos clicked in the same place where countless celebrities like Diana have posed for pictures. Walk out and reach Agra Fort made of red sandstone for an interesting history lesson. As you walk through various parts of the fort, notice the breathtaking views of Taj Mahal as well as the Agra town which will come up. After this, we’ll take a walk through the centuries old and famous Agra market and take a look at the wide variety of colourful art and various other things on display.
ACTIVITIES: Agra sightseeing
MEALS: Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Agra – Jaipur: Food tour of Jaipur
After an early wake up, we will drive towards Jaipur and check in the hotel for a couple of hours of rest and freshening up. After this we will begin to explore the Pink City of India by a delightful city walk through it’s old markets and lanes. We’ll walk through the streets and pink markets enjoying the sights of this easy going city and sample all the delicious food it has to offer. During the Jaipur tour we’ll sample different types of delicious kachouris, chai prepared over charcoal fire, some justly famous Rajasthani sweets, around half a dozen different snacks and a big traditional Rajasthani dinner at the end. Sightseeing part will cover sights such as Galta jee Temple (with it’s resident population of monkeys and langoors), Nahargarh Fort and a few more depending upon available time. Explore the local markets with their mind boggling varieties of colours, fragrances and people selling and buying almost everything under the sun like clothes, jewelery, bangles, shoes, utensils, spices and much more. These traditional markets of Jaipur are a big attraction by themselves. The visitors will be introduced to some of the ingredients used in traditional Rajasthani cooking.
ACTIVITIES: Food tour of Jaipur, Sightseeing
MEALS: Breakfast, lunch and dinner. ( Lunch and dinner during food tour)
Jaipur: Playtime with gentle giants
After an early breakfast, it’s time to have some fun with friendly and intelligent elephants of Elefantastic. We’ll have the chance to ride them, play, feed and do a tons of fun things with the gentle giants. The trainers take very good care of the animals and they are treated as family members instead of an owned animal. After lunch, it’s time for a visit to the famous Hawa Mahal (Palace of wind). It’s 5 stories tall and built of red and pink sandstone. Front of Hawa Mahal consists of 953 small windows (jharokhas) which are decorated with intricate lattice work. You’ll then visit Jantar Mantar, an incredible astronomical observatory built in early 18th century by Maharaja Jai Singh. After observatory, we visit Jaipur City Palace which is still partly a royal residence in addition to housing a museum. Then it’s time to visit the famous Jal Mahal, a palace constructed on an island in Man Sagar Lake.
ACTIVITIES: Elefantastic, Sightseeing
MEALS: Breakfast, lunch and dinner ( Lunch during Elefantastic ).
Jodhpur: Osian Desert
After breakfast, it will be the time to hit the road again as we start driving towards Jodhpur. Normal travel time to reach there is about 5 hours. Along the way, there will be a few rest stops in a few places like Ajmer. Instead of a hotel, the stay in Jodhpur will be a in a campsite in desert in a place called Osian, just outside Jodhpur city. Rest of day will be free for rest and exploration. It will be your first night out, away from the crowd of city close to nature. You can go for a desert safari on a camel or jeep in evening.
ACTIVITIES: Sightseeing, jeep and/or camel safari
Jodhpur: Blue City
The day will be dedicated to exploration of the Blue city, Joshpur. But first You will visit the impressive Mehrangarh fort which is situated 122 m above the city. The impressive fort includes attractions such as Sheesha Mahal, Moti Mahal, Fool Mahal and Takh Vilas, each one of which is a major attraction by itself. The day can cover a number of attractions like Jaswant Thada, Balsamand Lake, Mandore Gardnes and a few other depending upon available time. Evening time will be spent in a detailed Mewari cooking demonstration. Food prepared during cooking class will be served for dinner.
ACTIVITIES: Sightseeing, jeep and/or camel safari, cooking class
MEALS: Breakfast, lunch and Dinner
Back To Delhi
This will be the last day of journey as we’ll get in to our vehicles and drive back towards Delhi. If any of the guests need a drop to airport or railway station to their journey elsewhere, it will be arranged according to their requirements.
Accommodation provided from 13th December night in Delhi till 21st December night in Jodhpur.
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