A 16-day royal passage through Delhi, Udaipur, Jawai leopards, Mihir Garh, Jodhpur, Jaipur, and Agra.
16 Days / 15 Nights
Delhi, Udaipur, Jawai, Mihirgarh, Jodhpur, Jaipur, Agra
Legendary Heritage Palaces & Luxury Safari Tents
Arrive in Delhi. Tarmac assistance and private transfer to your heritage hotel.
Delhi is a palimpsest of seven historic cities — Mughal grandeur, bazaar energy and Lutyens' imperial geometry in one day's arc.
The curator's advisory, daily highlights and optional experiences for this day are shared privately — tap Hidden Gems above.
Explore the historical treasures of Delhi, from Old Delhi's markets to Humayun's Tomb and Lutyens' capital avenues.
Old and New Delhi are separate cities that happen to share an airport; give each its own morning and the capital makes sense.
The curator's advisory, daily highlights and optional experiences for this day are shared privately — tap Hidden Gems above.
Spend the day viewing contemporary art. In the evening, witness live Qawwali✦QawwaliThe ecstatic devotional music of Sufi Islam — massed voices, harmonium and driving handclaps — performed at dargahs across the subcontinent. Thursday…Read in the glossary ↗ vocals at Nizamuddin Dargah✦DargahThe shrine-tomb of a Sufi saint, a place of pilgrimage across faiths. Delhi's Nizamuddin Dargah, with its Thursday qawwali, is the tradition's…Read in the glossary ↗.
The Imperial's corridors, hung with five thousand colonial-era works, are a museum that serves breakfast — leave time for them.
The curator's advisory, daily highlights and optional experiences for this day are shared privately — tap Hidden Gems above.
Fly from Delhi to Udaipur. Board a private boat to Taj Lake Palace rising from Lake Pichola.
Udaipur is Rajasthan's royal elegance distilled — the City Palace rising sheer above Pichola, the Lake Palace afloat on it, and the Mewar dynasty's seventy-six generations still in residence.
The curator's advisory, daily highlights and optional experiences for this day are shared privately — tap Hidden Gems above.
Tour Udaipur's massive City Palace complex, vintage car display, and enjoy an afternoon private boat cruise.
The old city rewards wandering: havelis✦havelisA traditional mansion built around courtyards, its fortunes tied to merchant and noble families. The painted havelis of Shekhawati and the sandstone…Read in the glossary ↗, miniature painting studios, and ghats✦ghatsA flight of steps descending to sacred water — riverbanks in Varanasi, lake edges in Udaipur and Pushkar. The word also names the Western and Eastern…Read in the glossary ↗ where the evening light turns the whitewashed lanes gold.
The curator's advisory, daily highlights and optional experiences for this day are shared privately — tap Hidden Gems above.
Drive north to the Jawai conservation area. Settle into Suján Jawai, an ultra-luxury safari camp.
Jawai's granite kopjes hold one of India's most successful wild leopard populations — cats that live openly alongside the Rabari herdsmen, in a coexistence found nowhere else.
The curator's advisory, daily highlights and optional experiences for this day are shared privately — tap Hidden Gems above.
Embark on dawn and dusk 4x4 safaris. Walk through the granite hills with local Rabari shepherds in their traditional red robes.
Enrich the drives with the region's real story: leopard conservation, Rabari tradition, and a landscape that behaves like Africa wearing Rajasthan's colours.
The curator's advisory, daily highlights and optional experiences for this day are shared privately — tap Hidden Gems above.
Drive north to Mihir Garh boutique estate. Spend a quiet afternoon on the roof deck.
Mihir Garh — nine suites of hand-sculpted mud and stone in open desert — was built by village artisans as a fantasy of Marwar, and it behaves like a private fort with a stable of royal horses.
The curator's advisory, daily highlights and optional experiences for this day are shared privately — tap Hidden Gems above.
Enjoy a private horse-riding session on the estate's rare Marwari horses✦Marwari horsesThe warhorse of Rajput cavalry, unmistakable for its inward-curving ears — bred in Marwar for loyalty and endurance, and today the mount of choice…Read in the glossary ↗. Savor a gourmet picnic lunch.
The Bishnoi villages nearby live the region's oldest conservation ethic — a community that has protected blackbuck and khejri trees for five centuries.
The curator's advisory, daily highlights and optional experiences for this day are shared privately — tap Hidden Gems above.
Drive to Jodhpur. Check into Umaid Bhawan Palace, a stunning golden sandstone palace set inside royal gardens.
Mehrangarh stands four hundred feet above a city painted a hundred shades of blue — Kipling called it the work of giants and angels, and five centuries later it still intimidates beautifully.
The curator's advisory, daily highlights and optional experiences for this day are shared privately — tap Hidden Gems above.
Tour Mehrangarh Fort rising above the blue city. Explore the old stepwells✦stepwellsA well dug as inverted architecture — flights of steps descending storeys to the water table, doubling as cool gathering places. Rajasthan and…Read in the glossary ↗ and market streets of Jodhpur.
Below the ramparts the old city hums: spice markets around the clock tower, hidden stepwells✦stepwellsA well dug as inverted architecture — flights of steps descending storeys to the water table, doubling as cool gathering places. Rajasthan and…Read in the glossary ↗, artisan workshops in lanes barely wider than their doorways.
The curator's advisory, daily highlights and optional experiences for this day are shared privately — tap Hidden Gems above.
Drive to Jaipur. Settle into the Rambagh Palace, former home of Maharaja of Jaipur.
Jaipur carries its royal legacy in working order — Amber still commands its hilltop, the City Palace still houses a royal family, and the Hawa Mahal's 953 windows still catch the morning light as intended in 1799.
The curator's advisory, daily highlights and optional experiences for this day are shared privately — tap Hidden Gems above.
Ascend Amber Fort, and explore the City Palace residential chambers, plus Jantar Mantar observatory.
This is a city of living workshops: block printers, gem cutters, miniature painters and puppeteers whose trades predate the city itself.
The curator's advisory, daily highlights and optional experiences for this day are shared privately — tap Hidden Gems above.
Drive to Agra, stopping at Fatehpur Sikri. Check into Oberoi Amarvilas with clear Taj view rooms.
Agra exists on an itinerary for one reason, and the reason justifies everything: the Taj at dawn, before the day's heat and crowds, is architecture's most complete sentence.
The curator's advisory, daily highlights and optional experiences for this day are shared privately — tap Hidden Gems above.
Experience Taj Mahal at dawn. Later, explore the red sandstone palace pavilions inside Agra Fort.
The marble changes costume through the day — pearl-grey before dawn, amber at sunset. Meet it at the right hour and it silences even the well-travelled.
The curator's advisory, daily highlights and optional experiences for this day are shared privately — tap Hidden Gems above.
Drive back to Delhi International Airport for your departure flight home.
Delhi is a palimpsest of seven historic cities — Mughal grandeur, bazaar energy and Lutyens' imperial geometry in one day's arc.
"Enjoy lounge comforts before checking in for your long-haul flight."
We select working palaces, boutique sanctuaries, and historic lodges built around architectural integration, heritage preservation, and absolute luxury.
An elegant Victorian-style colonial heritage landmark in New Delhi.
A legendary white marble palace rising from the center of Lake Pichola.
An ultra-luxury canvas outpost positioned amidst granite hills where leopards roam free.
An exclusive boutique sand castle rising from the desert scrub.
A stunning Art Deco palace once home to Jodhpur's Maharaja.
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