Head east to a landscape and culture beyond your students' comfortable familiar world. India may shock and amaze, it will also offers superb potential for the development of geographical empathy and understanding.

New Delhi, a global city and example of early British urban planning, encompasses grand architecture and monuments. Students can assess the layout, transport system and economic activities and compare with Old Delhi, its crowded crumbling walled neighbour. Enable your students to investigate economic development first hand in a BRIC country, or study sustainability and globalisation of the Industrial Corridor Project. Journey north towards the foothills of the Himalayas along the Yamuna, largest tributary of the Ganges. Contrast river plains, grasslands and mountain forests. From here it is possible to visit a tiger reserve, investigate agricultural techniques and assess rural economic development.

Visit Agra with its red forts and stunning Taj Mahal. Students should consider issues of heritage tourism and the impacts of tourism on these beautiful UNESCO monuments. En route back, stop to see how locals have devised an ingenious solution to collect water in ‘step wells’. India will excite and enthrall your students, and leave indelible geographical memories.

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9 Days to the Golden Triangle

Day 1:
Depart for your overnight flight to Delhi.

Day 2:
Arrive in Delhi in the morning and transfer to your accommodation. In the afternoon enjoy a city tour of the seventeenth century walled city of Old Delhi visiting Chandani Chowk, the main area of the Old City. Visit the historic Red Fort, the Jama Masjid Mosque, India's largest Mosque & Shanti Vana, the cremation sites of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. Overnight in Delhi.

Day 3:
In the morning take a city tour of New Delhi to include Humayun's Tomb, visit the Qutab Minar, see the ruins of the Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque, see the Lakshmi Narayan Temple, the embassy area, Parliament House, the War Memorial Arch and the Vice Regal Palace, now the official residence of the President of India. Evening at the Son- et- Lumiere Show at the Red Fort. Overnight in Delhi.

Day 4:
Depart from your accommodation for your transfer to Pushkar. Overnight in Pushkar.

Day 5:
In the morning visit the Temple of Lord Brahma, the creator of the universe according to Hindu mythology. Continue on to Ajmer to visit the Mausoleum of the Sufi Saint Kwalja Moinuddin. Overnight in Pushkar.

Day 6:
Morning at leisure in Pushkar, then transfer to Jaipur and spend the afternoon on an excursion to the Amber Fort to see the Palace of Jai Mahal and the temple of Kali. Overnight in Jaipur.

Day 7:
Spend the morning on a city sight seeing tour of Jaipur, to include the 18th Century merchant house of Nawab Sahibki. Visit Jai Singhs Observatory, the Clock Tower, the Jaimahal and City Palace with its adjoining Palace of Harem. Drive past the Palace of Winds its 953 windows used by the ladies to look at the outside world. Continue by road to Agra via Fatehpur Sikri. Visit Jama Masjid, the tomb of Salim Chisti. Overnight in Agra.

Day 8:
City sightseeing tour of Agra in the morning. Visit the world famous Taj Mahal. Visit the fort built by the Moghul Emperors with its palaces, the Pearl Mosque, the halls of public and private audiences and the tomb of Itmad- Ud- Jaulah. In the afternoon transfer back to Delhi. Overnight in Delhi.

Day 9:
Depart Delhi for your return flight arriving back in the UK in the evening of the same day.