Arrivals and Opening

Namaste! Arrive at Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL) in New Delhi, where you will be met by a representative who will escort you through immigration and customs before connecting you with your driver.

Get settled into the hotel, then kick off the Study Tour with a Welcome Dinner and Opening Session.

Overnight: The Imperial New Delhi

Orientation and Partner Visit

After breakfast, you will have an orientation session at the hotel, led by AJWS President and CEO, Robert Bank, and local colleagues.

Enjoy lunch before departing for your first partner visit with Azad Foundation this afternoon.

Azad Foundation’s mission is to equip resource-poor women with knowledge and skills so that they excel as professionals and entrepreneurs, and earn a “livelihood with dignity” in jobs and markets that had traditionally been closed to them.

After returning from the partner visit, relax and come together for a group dinner this evening.

Overnight: The Imperial New Delhi

Partner Visits

After breakfast, meet with Nirantar Trust at the hotel.

Nirantar Trust: A Centre for Gender and Education believes in enabling empowerment through education, seeing and shaping education processes from a critical, feminist perspective. They promote transformatory formal and non-formal learning processes which enable girls and women from marginalized communities to better understand and address their realities.

Enjoy lunch all together before setting out for this afternoon’s partner visit.

In the afternoon, you will have another partner visit. Afterwards, if time allows, participate in sightseeing throughout the city.

Enjoy dinner at a local restaurant.

Overnight: The Imperial New Delhi

Travel to Udaipur

Details for this day are still to come. In the afternoon, you will head to the airport for your domestic transfer from New Delhi (DEL) to Udaipur (UDR) on an IndiGo flight departing at 5:55 PM. and arriving at 7:20 PM.

Overnight: Taj Fateh Prakash Palace

Partner Visit and Sunset Boat Ride

After breakfast, meet with Vikalp at the hotel.

In the afternoon, eat lunch before you set out for a private sunset boat ride on Lake Pichola.

Dinner will be at a local restaurant tonight.

Overnight: Taj Fateh Prakash Palace

Partner Visit and Walking Tour

After breakfast, visit a local partner.

In the afternoon, enjoy lunch and then embark on a walking tour of Udaipur’s markets. Find handmade crafts like Mughal miniatures, wall mural paintings, wood carvings, clay sculptures and metal embossing. As a fashion hub, the city delights you at every corner with colorful embroidered jootis and mojris (footwear), silver jewelry, mirror-worked skirts with matching blouses, and patchwork bedsheets and cushions.

Return to the hotel to refresh before this evening’s Shabbat dinner at the hotel’s Sunset Terrace, which skirts the palace and offers sweeping views of Udaipur’s skyline and the tranquil waters of Lake Pichola.

Overnight: Taj Fateh Prakash Palace

Sightseeing

Spend your last full day in India on a guided sightseeing tour of Udaipur. You will visit some of the city’s prominent landmarks while overlooking the Aravallis Mountains and breathing in the air surrounding Lake Pichola. The route will take you to the City Palace, the Monsoon Palace, and the Jagdish Temple.

After this morning’s walking tour, enjoy lunch at a local restaurant before visiting the temple at Eklingji and exploring the ruins at Nagda during sunset.

End your trip with a Closing Session and Farewell Dinner at the hotel’s Sunset Terrace.

Overnight: Taj Fateh Prakash Palace

Departure

Travel back to the airport for your international flight home or continue onward with your travels in India.

If you are interested in joining the Golden Triangle Extension, please see here.