Ganga Sailing is a very unique and unusual boat expedition in River Ganges which takes one not only to an exciting river cruising in commonly used boats but opens the ancient civilization and history of Indian religion and life style extremely clearly through its old villages and temples on the banks of Ganges.
Sailing for four days between a duration of six to eight hours in most sacred and important River Ganges starts from Allahabad and takes one through Mirzapur and Chunar Fort to Varanasi- the capital city of Hindu religion. The overnights are spent in surprisingly comfortable tents on River islands or on the banks. Every day is a new insight into the life on and around the holy river where there is an opportunity to go ashore to the culturally rich cities on the Ganges to visit the prominent centers of Hindu religion and to experience it in deep.
How the boats are-
The boats used are common Indian wooden row boat with a motor attached on each boat. There are comfortable seating arrangements of three boatmen with a canopy on the top and a small Trailer Boat attached is with the main boat for our kitchen crew.
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We strongly suggest you to use our email address info@adventureindiagroup.com for sending your queries directly to us. It is less time consuming than using booking forms. You can give missed call at 919736102222 and our office will call you back if you can't send email.
Day 01: Arrive Delhi- on arrival our Ganga Sailing guide will meet you and transfer to the hotel. A small presentation on boating will be flashed depending on your flight timings; otherwise the same will be done next morning.
Day 02: Sightseeing of Delhi & train to Allahabad - Start your guided sightseeing of Old Delhi with the Red Fort (1639), the Friday Mosque, Jama Masjid (1644) and experience the Chandni Chowk overflowing with Indian street life. Later after a delicious lunch, we explore the Humayun's Tomb (1565), which is among the first buildings of the great Mughal emperor counts, Qutub Minar, the 71 m high minaret (11th century), the Iron Column, the Safdar-Jang- Tomb (18th century) and the parliamentary buildings. We transfer you to the railway station for the overnight train to Allahabad with your accompanying guide. (Allahabad is a major city of India and is one of the main holy cities of Hinduism. It was renamed by the Mughal emperor Akbar from the original (still unofficially used) native name of Prayaga, and is by some accounts the second-oldest city in India. It is located in the state of Uttar Pradesh, lying some 205 kilometers (127 mi) south of the state capital, Lucknow and 620 Kms from Delhi.
Day 03: Allahabad - Sitamarhi - Virojpur (about 6 hr boat trip) - we reach Allahabad in the early morning and transfer to a hotel for wash and change and relax for some time. After breakfast drive to Sitamarhi for one and half hours and visit to the Sita temple and the temple of Lov Kush. Sita was the wife of Lord Rama and Lov & Kush were their sons. From Sitamarhi we start your boat trip on the Ganges for about 6 hours and reach Virojpur in the evening. Sailing downstream from Sitamarhi to Virojpur in a wooden country boat is a leisurely trip and with lots of fun while experiencing the actual Indian villages which you can see and feel situated on either side of the riverbank. This is the most colorful and interesting stretch of this legendary river. The night will be spent in pre established camp for this group with all meals.
Day 04: Virojpur - Mirzapur (about 8 hr boat trip) - we continue sailing and explore famous Durga Temple, the Kali Khoh and Astabhuji cave temple this day. The sailing is enjoyable under the foothills of Vindhyachal Mountains. Further cruise on the Ganges to Mirzapur, which also has beautifully designed Ghats (Stepped embankments). Mirzapur is renowned for its famous carpet and brassware industry. Overnight in tents at the river bank of Mirzapur.
Day 05: Mirzapur- Chunar (7 hr boat trip) - Sailing down the river watching ripples streaking the flat water and the occasional splash appears when a River Dolphin makes a brief appearance. The river turns sharply near the imposing Chunar fort which seems to rise vertically from the water. The sun rise and sun sets are spectacular. The impressive Chunar Fort dominates the Ganges and it has a very important chapter in the Indian history. Visit to a pottery and other crafts shops and a Hindu family is set on this day. Overnight at camp.
Day 06: Chunar - Varanasi (8 hr boat trip) - Morning after a visit to Chunar, we start sailing towards Varanasi with the most spectacular view of the river as it bends leisurely on the sandy banks and flows towards the most holiest city Of Hindus. The places to be seen are Sheetala Temple, Adalpura, Ramnagar Fort and Museum and the Dasaswamedh Ghat, where you form an Aarti ceremony and other important Hindu rituals. By evening we arrival at Rajghat and bid farewell to the boat team and transfer to hotel in Varanasi.
Day 07 & Day 08: Varanasi – We visit the famous Ghats and temples of Varanasi during these two days and make an excursion of Sarnath. Overnight in hotel.
Day 09: Varanasi- Delhi flight and later transfer to international airport.
Extension possibilities: Khajuraho- Orcha- Jhansi and Agra adding 4 more days. The interested travelers can ask to customize the trip by including these places.
Getting there: Your nearest international airport is Delhi where you will meet with our expedition manager. After essential visits to IMF and cargo (if required), you will be escotrted towards the initial point of your adventure as per the program details.
After the expedition/ adventure journey, you arrive back to Delhi. After de briefing (in case of expedition) and farewell ceremony, you will be driven to international airport to board flight back to your home.
Airtickets: We have our partners in almost every foreign countries, so if you need any assistance in your air tickets bookings, you are always welcome to speak to us to know about our partner close to you.
Cargo Management: We have strong tieups with the cargo management companies to get your consignments clear timely in Delhi. In maximum cases, you will only need to spend just 2 hours for getting your consignmwent delivery. Once you send the documents and the boxes details, we start locating them in India.
Insurance : It is a condition of joining our trips that you must be adequately insured. All persons are expected to arrange their own insurance. Polices should cover any potential risks involved in such adventure.
Our hotels and camps: We offer you best economy hotels in cities and towns and till base camp we provide you very comfirtable tents with maximim possible faciltiies in the mountains. For the trekking, Jeep Safaris, MTB and other adventure journeys, we provide the most luxurious camps fitted with dining areas and modren toilet facilities.
Adventure India briefing: We have excelent maps, images and movies of majoriety of our adventure expeditions/ joiurneys and sports. A short briefing in our offices is highly recommended so the team understands logistics, forecarst problems and know where the solutions would be. We stress on planning, planning and planning in any adventure expediton and till now we have remained successful in all of our expeditions just because of our planning. So we need you to be an active part of it.
Rescue and helicopter evacuation: if the expeditons are well planned, rescue operations can be avoided. In the history of 14 years, we didn’t encounter any seviour requireemtn of rescue but still we can tie up with the agencies to provide helicopter evacuation on your request and willingness to pay the charges.
Peak booking formalities: already mentioned in detail in our mountaineering formalities in India link. For necessary applications either you can check the website of IMF or speak to us.
Ground transportation: We provide the ground transportation compriseing of best available cars/ copaches in fine roads and rough trucks in remote areas of the Indian mountains.
Porters and ponies: We provide ponies till base camp and HAP/ LAPs as per the requirement of the expedition.
Fuel and gases: Fuel (aftwer BC) is not a part of cost included section, but we will manage Butane / Butane propane gases for you on your timely request.
Trek & BC food : We offer a mixture of Vegetarian and Non vegetarian food till BC including the several herbs we have individually discovered with the medicinal values and capacity to keep the body warm. We have cooks who make Korean, Japnese and Continental food along with Indian food.
Our guides & instructors: Our guides are basically trained till BC trekking and support to establish BC. But our instructors do have good experience of mountaineering who can join the expeditions to higher levels too.
Ground Support system: We have fantastic ground support system developed in collaboration with the local people of nearest villages, army camps, porters and local guides. We have re discovered the use of traditional communication system also along with the setellite phones to stay in touch with the groups after BC. Our BC staff is trained to keep information of the groups at ABC and between and act as per the situation.
Cost Includes & not: The cost includes all hotels, guest houses, camps till BC, food till BC, ponies, porters, LAP/ HAP, food & tents for the porters, cooks and staff at BC, insurance of our permanenet staff, food for LO, cargo management, all transportation, all sightseeing, liasioning and coordination, trekking guides and BC management. The cost doent include IMF fees and environment levies, State Government fees and environment levies, porters insurance, clients air fares, helicopter evacuation, extra porters requirement from the BC, extra days at or above BC and any expenditure on personal level including clients insurance/ visa etc.
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