Before going to India we were sure about going around golden triangle. I was suggesting just book hotels and go by ourselves, using public transportation, but Juli said we go the safe way. After searching in internet for travel agencies and prices, reading forums and blogs, we decided to apply to the services of Raju (http://www.rajuindia.com/ ). In spanish forums people were giving good references, so we wrote him and got the following proposal:
Dec 24 – Flight from Mumbai to Delhi and Transfer to Hotel Grand Godwin
Dec 25 – Delhi – Hotel Grand Godwin
Dec 26 – Agra – Hotel Clark Shiraz
Dec 27 – Jaipur – Hotel Bissau Palace
Dec 28 – Jaipur - Hotel Bissau Palace
Dec 29 – Flight to Goa
Services included:
-1. An A/C Car, Fuel, Insurance, Toll Taxes, All State Taxes, Parking and all transport related expenses.
-2. Driver food and lodging.
-3. Car will be with you from your arrival till your departure, 24 hours a day.
-4. Hotel accomodation
-5. Elephant Safari at Jaipur [Amber Fort]
-6. Two flight tickets from Mumbai to Delhi
-7. Two flight tickets from Jaipur to Goa
-8 Excursions to Fatehpur Sikri, Bird Sanctuary, Sikandra, Amber Fort.[City sight seeing as per your itinerary]
So, as a real capitalists, we agreed to take this offer and to have our own car with driver on our disposal and I think it was one of the smartest decissions of this trip :-)
We arrived to Delhi aiport from Mumbai with 2 hours delay (which is also normal for India, as we discovered later). Our driver, Bahwar met us a bit tired of waiting and started to joke from the 1st minute. His favourite expressions were: "Really, not broma?" and "Thank you, gracias, de nada". He knew some spanish words picked up from the spanish tourists and he had a young spirit, talking all the way, all the day, all the time, what was actually fun :-)
This night was Xmas eve and we needed a nice place to spend it. Delhi manager, from Raju Company, gave us an advice to go to a very nice restaurant, a bit expensive as he said, but OK for European people. In the restaurant one dish costed 35 euro, so we asked Bahwar to take us to some nice place with local food, what he actually did and we spent a pretty nice evening.
Dec 24 – Flight from Mumbai to Delhi and Transfer to Hotel Grand Godwin
Dec 25 – Delhi – Hotel Grand Godwin
Dec 26 – Agra – Hotel Clark Shiraz
Dec 27 – Jaipur – Hotel Bissau Palace
Dec 28 – Jaipur - Hotel Bissau Palace
Dec 29 – Flight to Goa
Services included:
-1. An A/C Car, Fuel, Insurance, Toll Taxes, All State Taxes, Parking and all transport related expenses.
-2. Driver food and lodging.
-3. Car will be with you from your arrival till your departure, 24 hours a day.
-4. Hotel accomodation
-5. Elephant Safari at Jaipur [Amber Fort]
-6. Two flight tickets from Mumbai to Delhi
-7. Two flight tickets from Jaipur to Goa
-8 Excursions to Fatehpur Sikri, Bird Sanctuary, Sikandra, Amber Fort.[City sight seeing as per your itinerary]
So, as a real capitalists, we agreed to take this offer and to have our own car with driver on our disposal and I think it was one of the smartest decissions of this trip :-)
We arrived to Delhi aiport from Mumbai with 2 hours delay (which is also normal for India, as we discovered later). Our driver, Bahwar met us a bit tired of waiting and started to joke from the 1st minute. His favourite expressions were: "Really, not broma?" and "Thank you, gracias, de nada". He knew some spanish words picked up from the spanish tourists and he had a young spirit, talking all the way, all the day, all the time, what was actually fun :-)
This night was Xmas eve and we needed a nice place to spend it. Delhi manager, from Raju Company, gave us an advice to go to a very nice restaurant, a bit expensive as he said, but OK for European people. In the restaurant one dish costed 35 euro, so we asked Bahwar to take us to some nice place with local food, what he actually did and we spent a pretty nice evening.
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