The Art and Culture of Northern India November 3-16, 2020 With Elizabeth Hornor, Ingram Senior Director of Education, and Professor Joyce Flueckiger, Department of Religion Trip cost per person (based on a group of 10 trav- Included in cost of the trip: • Hotels elers) • Daily breakfasts, six lunches, • USD $7,530 (shared room) and seven dinners (including • Single room supplement: USD $1,800 non-alcoholic beverages) • Internal flights and travel A nonrefundable deposit of $3,835 is due March 6. • Services of an accompany- ing English-speaking tour Museum Donation manager A separate donation of $300, payable by check, should be • All tips and gratuities (ex- mailed to: cept tour manager) Michael C. Carlos Museum • Plane side pick-up and assis- Attn: Jennifer Kirker tance at Delhi International 571 S. 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Once flight tickets are issued, USD $ 55.00 per person and difference of fare, per sector will be applicable to make any changes. *Please refer to the terms of service at www.curriecotravels.com. Tuesday, November 3 DELHI Arrive in Delhi The capitol of India, Delhi is After you exit the aircraft, you home to 16 million people, will be met and assisted with making it India’s third largest immigration and collecting your city. The strategic location baggage before being trans- of the city provided a strong ferred to the hotel. defense against invading armies. Delhi served as the Hotel: Taj Mahal capitol of many of the great Room: Deluxe empires that ruled India, and thus is filled with impressive Wednesday, November 4 monuments, the earliest of Delhi which date to the 12th cen- In the morning you will visit tury. Some monuments exist only as ruins, although others, Humayun’s Tomb, a UNES- CO heritage site that has un- particularly those built by the dergone a recent renovation Mughals and the British, are thanks to the Agha Khan Trust. more visible. Designed by a Persian architect, Emperor Humayun’s mausole- um is one of the earliest exam- ples of a Mughal garden tomb and provided the prototype for future tombs such as the Taj Mahal. As you walk in the Sundar Gardens, you’ll see ex- quisite pavillions, fountains, and other Mughal structures. From Humayun’s Tomb you’ll drive along the tree-lined av- enues of the New City, which was built by the British. On the drive, you’ll pass the Houses of Parliament, the India Gate War Memorial, and the jewel of this architectural collection, in the world. The museum also Hotel: Taj Mahal —the Rashtrapati Bhavan, has an exquisite collection of Room: Deluxe once the residence of the Vice- miniature paintings and two Meals provided: Breakfast, roy but now the home of India’s notable Qu’rans: one a superb brunch president. example of elegant Islamic art of calligraphy; the other an In the afternoon you will visit 8th-century Qu’ran inscribed in the National Museum, which Kufic script, among the oldest houses five millennia of Indian of its kind. history. Of particular note is the museum’s collection of Indus Valley relics and Central Asian treasures from the silk route, which are considered the finest Thursday, November 5 Delhi Today you will begin at Agrasen Ki Baoli, a stunning step well thought to have been constructed in the 15th century during the Tughlaq Dynasty. Baoli, or bawdi, is a Hindi and Urdu word that refers to water temples and temple step wells. The earliest record of such a reservoir goes back to ancient times and the Indus Valley civi- lization. Today the step well is a protected monument. Your next stop will be the Red Fort, formerly the home of Mu- Next, you will stop at the Jama ghal emperors and the new site Masjid, the Friday Mosque, of the recently opened war and believed to be the largest archaeological museums, which mosque in India, which dom- you’ll explore with an historian. inates the skyline of the Old City, once known as Shahjah- You will have lunch today at anabad. The city of Shah Jahan Café Lota, which is located in was designed at a time when the courtyard of the Crafts divided labor was practiced in Museum, which you’ll visit after India. From the mosque, you’ll lunch. Housed in a building explore alleyways and neigh- designed by the renowned borhoods that remain classified Indian architect Charles Correa, by the professions of their in- the museum is a treasure trove habitants. You will pass through of Indian art and architecture. communities of calligraphers, Ranging from metalware and indigo dyers, silver jewelers, woodwork to masks, painting, and cooks. terracotta, tribal arts, and tex- tiles, the museum showcases You will then visit Gulab Singh Hotel: Taj Mahal the best of India’s craft heritage. —a descendant of Johrimal Room: Deluxe In tree-shaded courtyards, arti- the last Mughal perfumers— Meals provided: Breakfast, sans from various parts of India and sample various fragrances lunch recreate some of the items on distilled in sandalwood oil. On view in the museum. this walk, you will also pass through Kinari Bazaar, one of You will also walk along the Asia’s biggest markets of wed- Mutiny Trail, which narrates the ding essentials, with a stop at story of the first war of Indian a beautiful Jain temple and the independence, a transitional haveli, or mansion, of the Urdu and turbulent period when the poet Mirza Ghalib. Mughal capitol turned into a battleground overnight. Friday, November 6 Delhi to Amritsar You will depart for Amritsar by UK 976 (1:40 PM/2:50 PM). You will be met and transferred to your hotel. This evening you will visit the Golden Temple when the holy book is ceremoniously returned to its “resting place” for the night. AMRITSAR Founded in 1877, Amritsar (“city of nectar”) is the holiest place Hotel: Taj Swarna for the followers of the Sikh religion and the site of the spectac- Room: Luxury ular Golden Temple. Amritsar is also the site of the one of the Meals provided: Breakfast, many tragedies that began the Indian Mutiny of 1857. dinner Saturday, November 7 Amritsar You will explore Amritsar today, beginning with the Golden Temple. Sikhs take their name from the word meaning “disci- ple,” and the Golden Temple is the holiest of all their shrines. Gilded and heavily decorated, the temple is stunning at all times of day. For Sikhs, bath- ing in the purifying pool is an intensely spiritual experience that all believers should expe- rience at least once. One side of the tank represents 63 Hindu pilgrim places. You will follow in it an honor to serve. You will festival day of Baisakhi. Nearly the path of the pilgrims, ob- participate in this ritual, helping one thousand people are said serving the many rituals such as to make bread and vats of curry to have died that day, with the mandatory dip in the pool to feed local pilgrims and the many more injured. of water. underprivileged. Your next stop will be the new- You will end your visit to the Next, you will stop at Jallianwa- ly opened Partition Museum, temple in the community kitch- la Bagh, the site of a memorial located in the town hall. The en. Sikhs believe that everyone, to commemorate the victims museum, the first of its kind, regardless of their station in of the infamous massacre car- chronicles the 1947 partition, life, should do sevak (social ried out by the British in 1919. the division of British India into service). This takes the form of The indiscriminate shooting of the langar (community kitchen) an unarmed gathering of men, in which every Sikh considers women, and children was or- dered by General Dyer on the Sunday, November 8 Amritsar to Agra (via Delhi) You will depart for Delhi by Air India 118 (09:15 AM/10:30 AM).