Ganga Mahotsav

Held in Varanasi on the very banks of the great River Ganges, the Mahotsav festival promotes Varanasi as India’s cultural capital and the impressive river as India’s vein, its very lifeline. Organised on the day of Dev Deepavali, when the full moon is present, it is believed that God comes down from heaven to bathe in the Ganges, which is always lit with lamps on this day.

Jet Airways Status

With the strike finally coming to a halt on September 13th after 5 days which reportedly cost the company over €4.5m a day, Jet Airways Ltd introduces a contigency plan to regain customer confidence and win back its following, buy cutting local fares by 50% for three days.

Dusshera

The festival of Dusshera, also known as Vijayadasham, is celebrated in different forms across India and Nepal and falls on the tenth day of the bright half of the Hindu month Ashwina (the overlap of September and October). This year the festivities are on the 28th of September. As India is so vast, each region has its own celebration and rituals when it comes to the festival of Dusshera.

Jet Airways Strike

On September the 8th of this year Jet Airways, India’s third largest airline operating in over 60 countries, experienced a simultaneous employee strike, with several of its pilots reporting in sick and failing to turn up for work. The apparent reason for this strike is a protest over the perceived unfair dismissal of two pilots in August. Jet Airways has been forced to cancel over 150 domestic flights and 32 international flights due to the strike.

Flying to India

In past generations, crossing the seas was at the very least a difficult task, and for the majority it was impossible. In our current era, you can cross the world by plane with a surprisingly low budget. I say this loosely, as with any search it really depends on the airport you are traveling from and arriving to. At a basic level, the bigger the airport the cheaper the flight, as economies of scale are achieved and thus the lower costs can be passed onto the consumer.

Safari on Saddle

Do safari the interesting way: on horseback or camelback. Many tour packages are offered in car, coach, train, boat and on foot. Although these are the more common options when taking a safari in India, touring on a horse or camel can be a really exciting and refreshing way of seeing sights and wildlife.

A Tour of the Wild

Experience a special kind of tour around India, a Wildlife Tour. With this type of service you will experience first hand and close up the fauna and flora of the specific place you visit, with many things to learn along the way. The western point of India, dominated by the state of Gujarat is home to four national parks, twenty one wildlife sanctuaries and the Gir Forest; the only place on earth where the Asiatic Lion exists (it being one of the Gujarat state symbols).

Pachmarhi

Defined as “hill station” which is basically a town at a high elevation, Pachmarhi or Satpura ki Rani is 1000m high in the Mahadeo hills of the Madhya Pradesh state of mid-north India. Traditionally a very serene and sparsely populated place, the British soldier Captain Forsyth “discovered” it in 1857 for the western world and it became a station for the British Army, with its population rising rapidly.

Nainital

Nainital is a beautiful town in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, situated in a serene location amidst the great peaks of the Kumaon Hill range. At over 6,000 feet above sea level, this lakeside resort really strikes you as breath-taking and offers the public a whole host of activities and attractions, least of all being its renowned and spectacular view, and its educational institutions (Nainital has a literacy rate of 86%, over 20% higher than the national average). North India Tour Packages

Indian Wildlife Moments

Indian Wildlife Moments is a new website design focused on providing a service to those clients wishing to travel to India and experience the full and vibrant amount of biodiversity in the magnificent subcontinent. Visit the earlier article for a bit of information about the huge variety of biological life in India.