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The Quiet Heart of the South
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A journey through Karnataka’s royal cities, river forests, and hill sanctuaries
- 10 Days
- 4 Destinations
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Rituals, Rivers & Rising Faiths
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A journey through India’s living legacy of faith, empire, and tradition
- 14 Days
- 5 Destinations
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Ladakh: Of Stone and Silence
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Where Mountains Keep time and Rivers Carry Prayer
- 12 Days
- 8 Destinations
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Rajasthan Beyond Palaces
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Stories of stepwell feasts, leopard trails, and wild hills
- 13 Days
- 5 Destinations
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In the Shadow of the Himalayas
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Discover the wild beauty of the Himalayan foothills
- 12 Days
- 5 Destinations
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Where Legends Live and Tigers Roam
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Central India: Ancient Temples, Timeless Stories, and Untamed Nature
- 10 Days
- 4 Destinations
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Rivers, Rhinos & Rhythms of the East
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A Journey Through East & North-East India: Kolkata, Kaziranga & Brahmaputra
- 10 Days
- 4 Destinations
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Palaces, Temples & Colonial Echoes
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Retrace the Peninsular History of Kingdoms & Colonies in Tamil Nadu
- 10 Days
- 5 Destinations
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Mountains, Monasteries & Monks
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Discover the trans-Himalayan landscape and its people
- 9 Days
- 3 Destinations
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Ajanta – Ellora cave temples
Delve into the history of one of India's finest architectural wonders
An hour and a half’s drive away from the city of Aurangabad, lie the breathtaking, once-forgotten Ajanta caves – rockcut caves with the finest examples of Indian paintings dating between the 2nd BCE to 480 or 650 CE. Discovered amidst overgrown forest by a British officer, the caves are covered with murals depicting the Jataka tales – didactic narratives tinged with the Buddhist philosophy. For the artists and the curious tourists alike, a rich world of iconography awaits at Ajanta, and the influences of this school of painting is evident in other places across the world, especially in Sri Lanka and Tibet.
A hundred kilometres away from the Ajanta caves, the Ellora rockcut cave sculptures exert a rare magnetism for the tourist. Built between the 5th and the 10 Century, the Ellora caves are a series of Hindu, Buddhist and Jain temples carved into the basalt Deccan traps. The numerous caves bear friezes, carved pillars and inscriptions – and traces of paintings illustrating mythological characters and events, and are testimony to the rare skill and the religious harmony of the time.
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