Connect your Heart and your Head as you travel through India with a like-minded group and your guides. As well as enjoying the sights and culture, we will be assisted by our Indian partner-Mini Bedi and the Development Support Team to journey to the heart of urban and village communities, meet women and men committed to lasting change and be engaged in seeing friends, visiting long term project sites and sharing the learning around the theme “India: Where to with Development”.

This 3 week (18 days in India) travel and learning journey will allow you to experience the sights, sounds and food of India and also connect you to old friends and to the changing world of development. You will travel with a group of interested and interesting people assisted by an experienced Australian and Indian team to guide you. This journey is a unique blend of sightseeing, travel, learning, inspirational personal accounts, meeting old friends and real world experiences and will also reconnect you to village level conditions and change.

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Brief Description of our Anniversary Journey in India

You will travel to India arriving in the city of Mumbai to meet with your fellow travellers. After our introduction to the highlights of Mumbai, including Mahatma Ghandi’s house and Asia’s largest slum, we travel together by train to the city of Pune in the hills above Mumbai. There we will settle into a mix of presentations, sightseeing, a little yoga, shopping, evening dinners and engage with our old friends and Indian guides from the Development Support Team (DST). While in Pune we will also visit some urban communities and meet the women and their self-help groups, experience Yoga and catch up with old friends. After experiencing Pune we will then fly to the state of Rajasthan and the historic city of Jaipur with its famous Bazaar, forts and city palace. There we will visit some old partners and understand what is happening with development. In Rajasthan we will also travel to and stay in the Golden Castle fort which has been a refuge on many of our trips. From Jaipur we will travel through India’s capital, Delhi to the foothills of the Himalayas in Uttarakhand. Here in Nainital we will revisit some refreshing project work with “barefoot engineers” and women’s craft shops while enjoying the mountain views. In our final days we will hear from local people about the changes taking place. We wrap up our adventure here and return to Delhi for some quick shopping and enjoying Delhi before our journey finishes. You may  wish to return to Australia or journey further in India.