VARANASI

You will arrive at Varanasi Airport. A TCI representative will meet you as you EXIT the ARRIVALS TERMINAL building after which you would be transferred to your hotel.

Upon arrival at the hotel, you will proceed for check-in.

This is the city of light, which turns its face to the rising sun. This is where the devout Hindu hopes to die, for dying here means eternal life: liberation from the eternal cycle of life and death. This is where the fires of Manikarnika ghat burn continuously as bodies come down the steps of the huge imposing ghats in a prosaic line. Death lives in Varanasi, cohabiting with its widows, pilgrims, godmen, seekers and touts. For it is a city whose religious traditions are still alive, which still pulsates with an energy that is both sacred and mundane.
This is where the thumri, a semi-classical love song of yearning for the missing beloved-the errant Krishna -- was born.
This is where pandas (priests) will practically drag you into temples and ask you to pay at each step of the way for everything from the salvation of your parents' souls to the prosperity.

Overnight at the hotel.

After buffet breakfast, you will proceed for full day sightseeing tour of Varanasi.

After breakfast, visit the famous Kashi Vishwanath Temple - the most sacred shrine dedicated to Lord Shiva, New Vishwanath temple - with the whole Gita engraved on its marble walls, Durga temple, Tulsi Manas Mandir - with text of Ram Charit Manas engraved on its walls, Vinayaka Temples - devoted to Lord Ganesh, Annapoorna Temple, Kal Bhairav Temple, Jateshwar Mahadev Temple, Maha Mrityunjaya Temple and Bharat Mata Temple.

Overnight at the hotel.

Today early morning proceed for boat ride on River Ganges. After breakfast at hotel, transfer to airport for return flight to Delhi,

Varanasi Cost

Hotel Envisaged

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SPECIAL NOTES

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Your booking request is governed by the conditions below and the terms of business under which your booking request is made as set out below. Please note especially the terms covering payments, cancellations, alterations, and rescheduling.

SCOPE OF ACTIVITY

We are travel and holiday organizers only. We do not control or operate any airline, neither do we own or control any shipping company, coach or coach company, hotel, transport or any other facility or service mentioned in the brochure. We take care in selecting all the ingredients in your holiday, but because we only select and inspect them and have no control in the running of them, we cannot be held responsible for mechanical fault or any injury, death, loss or damage which is caused by the act of default of the management or employees of any hoteliers, airlines, shipping company, coach, coach owner/operator who are the Company’s Independent Contractors arising outside our normal selection and inspection process.

DEFINITTION

a) “Client” mean the person/persons in whose name or on whose behalf the booking request is made
b) Company means Travel Corporation (India) Ltd.
c) Tour cost means the amount mentioned.
d) Independent Contractors means “Hotelier/Hotel owner”, owner of any airlines or shipping company or railway, ferryboat owner/operator/coach owner/operator, or any other person or organization who has been selected by the Company to render services to the Client.

• There is no Contract between the Company and the Client until the Company has received the initial booking deposit of Rs. 2000/- per person. The full payment must be received in accordance with procedure laid down under Payments Terms. If not paid within that time, the company reserves the right to cancel the booking with consequent loss of deposit and apply scale of cancellation charges as mentioned in the cancellation policy hereunder.
• The Company has the right at any time and for any reason:

• To terminate Contract after acceptance of deposit but prior to the commencement of the Tour without assigning any reason whatsoever. In the event, that the Company terminates the Contract, the Company shall refund the deposit amount of Rs. 2000/- per person to the Client without payment of any interest.
• To amend, alter, vary or withdraw any tour, holiday, excursion or facility it has advertised or published or to substitute an Independent Contractor of similar class if it is deemed advisable or necessary. In either case, the Company shall not be liable for any damage, additional expense or consequential loss suffered by the Clients or for any compensation claims made.

• No person other than the Company, in writing, has the authority to vary, add, amplify or waive any stipulation, representation, term or condition mentioned herein.
• In the event of the company exercising its rights to amend or alter any of the services as mentioned in the itinerary, after such tour or holiday has been booked, the Client shall have the right:

• To continue with the tour or holiday as amended or altered
• To accept any alternative tour or holiday which the Company may offer.
• In either of these above cases, the client shall not be entitled to, or the Company shall not be liable to the Client for any damage, additional expense, consequential loss suffered by him or to pay any amount as refund.

• The Company shall in no circumstances, whatsoever, be liable to the Client or any person traveling for:
• The Company shall in no circumstances, whatsoever, be liable to the Client or any person traveling for:
• a) Any death, personal injury, sickness, accident, loss, delay, discomfort, increased expenses, consequential loss and / or damage or any misadventure howsoever caused.
  
  b) Any act, omission, default by an Independent Contractor or other persons or by any servant or agent, employed by them who may be engaged or concerned in the provision of accommodation, refreshment, carriage facilities or service for the Client or for any person traveling with him howsoever caused.
  
  c) The temporary or permanent loss of or damage to baggage or personal effects howsoever caused. In this condition the expression ‘howsoever caused’ includes negligence on the part of any person.
• No liability on the part of the Company arising in any way out of this Contract in respect of any tour, holiday, excursion facility, shall exceed the total amount paid or agreed to be paid for the tour holiday, and shall in no case include any consequential loss or additional expense whatsoever.
• a) If the Client has any complaint in respect of the services provided by any of the Independent Contractors, the Client shall immediately notify the same in writing to the Independent Contractor and a copy thereof should be handed over to the Tour Manager of the Company in order to enable the Company to take up the matter with the Independent Contractor so that in future other Clients do not face the same difficulty
  
  b) Any claim or complaint by the Client must be notified to the company in writing within 28 days of the end of the holiday tour. No claim notified to the Company beyond this period will be entertained and the company shall incur no liability whatsoever in respect thereof.
• It is hereby declared that the immunities provided under the Contract shall be available to the Company’s Managers, including Tour Managers, employees, servants and agents but not to the Independent Contractors selected by the Company.
• Each of these conditions shall be severable from the other and if any provision were invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall nevertheless have full force and effect.

Booking & payment conditions

Please return the duly signed & completed booking form to us or our appointed agent.

Payment terms

Installments on all bookings due as follows:

Amendments

Any amendment in the original booking request once booked and confirmed has to be given to us in writing. All changes will be processed only after the receipt of the same. Every change in previous programme will be charged Rs.150/- per person per tour as amendment charges.

Cancellations

If circumstances make you cancel the tour, the cancellation must be intimated to us in writing. As per the Booking Conditions of the Tour, we are constrained to levy the following cancellation charges:

Cancellation charges per person

The Company reserves the right to cancel any Tour prior to the departure, without assigning any reason. In such an eventuality, all monies paid by you will be fully refunded forthwith in Indian Rupees only, but no compensation is payable.
Thomas Cook (India) Ltd cannot assume responsibility for any additional cost or any fees relating to the issuance and/or cancellation of air tickets or other arrangements not done through Thomas Cook (India) Ltd.