Monday, June 25, 2001		Entertainment

THE summer vacations are going to be over soon and probably this is the last week of vacations for most of the schools. If you have still not gone on a trip, it is time you plan one. Holiday planning is easy as you can collect all vital information related to holiday destination and packages right at your desktop through the Internet. There are many sites that offer good packages for travelling in India and abroad. Moreover, there are several attractive packages available on various Internet sites. One such site is www.swantour.com.

On this site, you can find tour packages for Indian and foreign destinations. Packages for Indian destinations include, Agra, Corbett, Dalhousie, Darjeeling, Delhi, Dharamshala, Goa, Manali, Mussoorie, Nainital, Rajasthan, Shimla, South India and Srinagar whereas the foreign destinations include Bangkok, Pattaya, Phuket, Cairns, Gold Coast, Melbourne, Sydney, New Zealand, Kuala Lumpur, Nepal, Singapore and Mauritius. On this site you can also get information on visa, car rentals and passport inquires.

There is another good site on the Internet by the name www.kai-travels.com. This site offers theme-based tours like cultural tours, adventure tours etc. Under cultural tours you can enjoy a particular theme like Epic India, The Dravidian Saga, Gangotri — The source of Ganga, Glimpses of unknown India, Land of Sun spices etc. The places to visit in these tours are being chosen as per theme. Like the Dravidian Saga is basically a tour of South India. Similarly, the glimpses of unknown India covers the travel destination, which are beautiful but are not yet exploited by tourists and are thus little known to the travellers. Likewise those, who are fond of culture, would surely love to be in Rajasthan. For those travellers, this site has a package tour named Deserts of Rajasthan.

These were the details of the cultural tours. The other categories of tours being offered are adventurous tours, like the call of Himalayas, Heart of Himalayas- Ladakh, Trans-Himalayas and Aravali trekking tour. If you have liking for traditional festivals, then there are packaged tours for Rajasthan Pushkar festival, Nagaur Festival. However, since these festivals are being held at a specific time thus these are time-bound tours. — IV