Private tours to North India

An unusual side of northern India - away from the typical routes

and well-known sights - are the states of Himachal Pradesh

and Punjab. Much of this tour covers the lower reaches of

the Western Himalayas and the rivers of the Punjab. From

Chandigarh, India’s first contemporary-looking city after

Independence, travel by narrow gauge mountain railway to

Shimla, the erstwhile summer capital of the British Raj, then into

the beautiful Kangra Valley with its lush fields of wheat and rice

and bounteous orchards (also, Dharamsala can easily be visited

from Taragarh). The finale: the sacred frontier town of Amritsar,

the spiritual capital of the Sikh community, crowned by the

sublime Golden Temple.