{"id":9654,"date":"2025-08-09T08:31:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T01:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazingbiketours.com\/?p=9654"},"modified":"2025-08-09T09:00:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T02:00:47","slug":"foothills-of-the-himalayas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.absoluteasiatours.com\/india\/foothills-of-the-himalayas\/","title":{"rendered":"Foothills of the Himalayas: Sacred Sites & Hill Stations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Foothills of the Himalayas<\/a>: Sacred Sites & Hill Stations<\/strong><\/h3>\n

From New Delhi, travel to the Foot Hills of the Himalayas – the spiritual and scenic gems of India. Attend the ritualistic Ganga Aarti Ceremony in Haridwar, visit the calm Tibetan settlement of Dharamshala (home of the Dalai Lama), see the magnificent Golden Temple in Amritsar, experience the historic \u2018toy-train\u2019 into Shimla (the British colonial hill station), and then go modern in Chandigarh (the modernist city). The tour is a mix of sacred rituals on the River Ganges, the extravagant spectacle on the Wagah border, and more – an adventurously spiritual exploration in some of the most beautiful mountain landscapes in the world.<\/p>\n

Tour Highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • Witness the Ganga Aarti ceremony in Haridwar, one of India\u2019s holiest Hindu cities<\/li>\n
  • Explore India\u2019s first planned city, Chandigarh – a vision in concrete!<\/li>\n
  • Ride the \u2018toy train\u2019 up to Shimla, former summer capital of British India<\/li>\n
  • Visit \u2018Little Lhasa\u2019 near Dharamshala, home to many Tibetans including His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama<\/li>\n
  • Wonder at the sight of the Golden Temple in the historical Sikh city of Amritsar<\/li>\n
  • Revel in the pageantry of the \u2018beating the retreat\u2019 ceremony at the Wagah border with Pakistan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    North of Delhi lie the Foothills of the Himalayas – home to spiritual towns and stunning mountain scenery, former hill stations and tea plantations – and this 13-day holiday takes it all in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[612,611,609,605,606,613,607,616,615,610,608,614],"inspiration":[110],"class_list":["post-9654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","tag-amritsar","tag-dalai-lama","tag-dharamshala","tag-foothills-of-the-himalayas","tag-ganga-aarti","tag-golden-temple","tag-haridwar","tag-himalayan-mountain-scenery","tag-india-spiritual-tour","tag-little-lhasa","tag-shimla-toy-train","tag-wagah-border-ceremony","inspiration-shore-excursions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteasiatours.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteasiatours.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteasiatours.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteasiatours.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteasiatours.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteasiatours.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteasiatours.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteasiatours.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteasiatours.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteasiatours.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9654"},{"taxonomy":"inspiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absoluteasiatours.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inspiration?post=9654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}