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Explore Delhi with Maidens Hotels Heritage Walk & Tours
by Maidens Hotel A Heritage HotelVisiting
the national capital and want to explore all the tourist places in Delhi? All you need to do is
check into one of the hotels in North Delhi, more specifically in the Civil
Lines neighbourhood, and check out their heritage walk and tours.
There
are many advantages of booking a heritage walk and tour. The heritage walk
organiser will show you a side of a city that is usually not in the guidebooks.
The Maidens Hotel’s heritage walk and tour is a case in point. The hotel is, by
itself, a heritage landmark, and was built during the time of the British Raj.
The hotel pays special attention to the tours, and has a true-blue Delhi lover
who knows all about the city, its nooks and crannies, Surekha Narain, a reputed
organiser and conductor of heritage tours in charge. Here’s a guide on what the
heritage walks and tours entail, and the tourist places in Delhi that
they cover:
There
are as many as 30 routes you can choose from, for walking. Each of these walks
are designed differently to show you glimpses of Delhi you can never see in a
stereotypical tour or tourist guide. There many off-the-beaten-track tours as
well that you can choose and look at the tourist places in Delhi with a
new perspective and rare stories lining these places.
Some
of the extras to the tours are music, movies and a taste of local cuisine. It
is only through the food and culture of a place that you understand its
heritage and history. Delhi is full of many such rare spots rich in nuggets of
history waiting to be explored.
What’s
a round-up of all the tourist places in Delhi without ever coming in
touch with the local people? People after all make places. The Maidens heritage
walk and tours will take you in touch with local people, so you can interact
with them and get to know of local stories never to be found in guide books!
Some
of the popular walks include:
•
A
half-day tour of ‘Sultanate Delhi’, which will take you to places like the Qutb
Minar, Sufi Shrine, home of a British Resident etc.
•
A
day-long tour of Mughal Delhi. Delhi is full of remains of the Mughal Empire,
and this tour covers locations like Chandni Chowk, Red Fort, the Jama Masjid
etc. If there is extra time, a trip to the bazaars of the city are also thrown
in.
•
A
half-day Sufi Delhi tour that covers the tomb of Humayun and Nizamuddin Auliya’s
shrine.
•
A
British Delhi tour, either half or full-day, to show you Civil Lines Delhi of
the 1900s and also the New Delhi - Lutyens Zone Delhi.
•
A
Delhi University North Campus walk.
•
There
are other offbeat tours as well that cover Chandni Chowk, North Delhi, Central
Delhi, a visit to some of the old cities that today make up the city, and the
plush South Extension or South Delhi.
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