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Home > Delhi > Private Tour: Old and New Delhi in a Day
Private Tour: Old and New Delhi in a Day
USD $148.00

Private Tour: Old and New Delhi in a Day

Delhi, India

Discover the diversity of Old and New Delhi in one day on a special private tour. The day tour takes you from the spacious planned street of New Delhi to the action-packed lanes and alley ways of Old Delhi. Travel in the comfort of your private air-conditioned chauffeured vehicle as your expert guide helps you to uncover the highlights of India's bustling capital.

Delhi is one of the best examples in the world where 'old meets new'. You'll visit Raj Ghat and Shanti Vana, Jama Masjid, the Red Fort, Chandi Chowk market, Qutub Minar, Humayun's Tomb and many more sights on this private day tour.

Strolling through the streets of Delhi you will hear the ringing bells of bicycle rickshaws and tooting horns of Mercedes-Benz cars, and even dodge the odd resting cow in the middle of a busy intersection. On this sightseeing tour of Old and New Delhi your senses will come alive as you encounter the many sights and sounds this amazing city has to offer.

In the morning, you will be met at your hotel. Your first stop is Raj Ghat and Shanti Vana, the cremation sites of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister. Continue to Jama Masjid, India's biggest mosque, and the Red Fort. Then, visit Chandi Chowk, an old and busy market, and peruse the many stalls selling various curious from spices to local handicrafts.

After lunch (at your own expense), you will visit new Delhi. Here you will see such sights as the impressive Qutub Minar, Humayun's Tome, India Gate (War Memorial Arch) and Lakshmi Narayan Temple, a modern Hindu Temple. You will also drive past the President's House, Parliament House, Government Secretariat buildings and Connaught Place shopping center.

You will be returned to your hotel at completion of the tour.

USD $148.00
Traveler Reviews
Review by:   gemmab6,    March 2018 Review: 4 star rating: Recommended
Good tour, not sure the guide knew where to take us and how long for, but we had done our research and knew what we wanted/should be seeing (good travellers tip). We were left to wonder around the sights ourselves which was fine.
 

Review by:   Wesley D,    March 2018 Review: 5 star rating: Highly Recommended
Great tour to see the sights and sounds of the city. !!!
 

Review by:   Jacklyn M,    March 2017 Review: 5 star rating: Highly Recommended
Our tour guide, Allan, was young, knowledgeable, and enthusiastic. He started the day asking us what our expectations were and if there was anything specific we wanted to see and spend time on. We really had a blast on this trip! Old Delhi was incredible, and we enjoyed taking in all the sounds and smells! Perhaps my favorite experience was going to the Sikh temple and visiting there for meditation.
 

Review by:   David W,    January 2017 Review: 5 star rating: Highly Recommended
This was a great trip the guide was exceptional and very knowledgable.
 

Review by:   Rachel L,    November 2016 Review: 5 star rating: Highly Recommended
Very prompt pickup from my hotel the guide and driver were actually both early, arrived at 0830. My guide was very knowledgeable, but not overly talkative. We went to many of the big ticket tourist places, starting in Old Delhi - Jama Masjid mosque and the Red Fort. Along the way, he took me to several temples Jain and Sikh, which I wasn't expecting but was very culturally interesting to learn about. We walked through Chandi Chowk and stopped at a spice market it seems to be a designated tourist stop, quite a few europeans were in there. I didn't feel any pressure to purchase anything, although of course I did. We traveled to these places on both bike rickshaw and electric rickshaw, both of them being fun experiences but probably not for the faint of heart :.
 

Review by:   Robert J M,    February 2016 Review: 5 star rating: Highly Recommended
With a personal guide for just the two of us, what a wonderful way to experience the city and not get lost while you look around and try to figure out just where are we. Plus you can have all the say in what you want to see and not what they want you to see. A long day but a great day.
 

Review by:   Gem,    October 2015 Review: 4 star rating: Recommended
This is one of the tour that we experienced India! We walked the busy street of Chandini Chowk, tried their delicious street food - Jalebi and Samoosa, bargained from the shops and rode the rickshaw. The Humayun's tomb and the Red Fort are very rich in story. We were just a little disappointed as there are 2 sites were on the list that they did not take us to.
 

Review by:   Nourah A,    September 2015 Review: 5 star rating: Highly Recommended
Excellent tour had time to check out many more places like the Lotus Temple. Great guide who had full knowledge of many places we passed by.
 

Review by:   Padraig O,    September 2015 Review: 5 star rating: Highly Recommended
The guide is very nice and is quite knowledgeable. _br/_ Must not forget the driver whom is sometimes forgotten in these reviews. A very nice guy.
 

Review by:   Nela B,    September 2015 Review: 5 star rating: Highly Recommended
Really good. The tour guide and driver were very nice and flexible. I was given a choice of what i wanted to see. They also took me to couple of craft shops.
 

Review by:   Alex W,    August 2015 Review: 4 star rating: Recommended
Great experience - started with Old Delhi with Jama Masjid - resulted in experiences such as riding Rickshaw, visiting Gurudwara and helping to prepare food for their community service meals and buying spices in spice markets, before moving on to sights such as Qutb Minar and Humayun's tomb. Were unable to do Red Fort due to August 15th preparations however made for a thoroughly enjoyable day
 

Review by:   Stephen J M,    August 2015 Review: 5 star rating: Highly Recommended
What a great trip. Suiki Spelling? was a brilliant guide. Took us to interesting places and explained everything really well. We experienced street food the most amazing sticky dessert and then had lunch in a little side street café where we were the only Europeans. Topped off our lunch with street chai tea. We went to the Sikh temple and helped make chapattis for lunch. I am not sure our skill level was up to standard but they were still cooked with the others! Finished our trip with a rickshaw ride and a walk back to our hotel. All in all a fantastic time and an excellent guide. Fully recommend this trip.
 

Review by:   Felicity A W,    July 2015 Review: 5 star rating: Highly Recommended
An excellent day tour where I saw the many sights of this lovely city. The tour guide was excellent - very knowledgeable about the city and very accommodating. A thoroughly enjoyable day.
 

Review by:   Dawn J,    July 2015 Review: 5 star rating: Highly Recommended
Great day to explore the city both old and new in a short time period! The tour guide Konica was very knowledgeable and flexible to my needs - and the guides deployed at some of the sights were fantastic.
 

Review by:   Warren K,    May 2015 Review: 5 star rating: Highly Recommended
See it all in one day ! After this tour we felt like we had thoroughly done it all in New Delhi ! We want to thank Tushar Patiyal from the tour company for a truly excellent experience ! This was the company that Viator commissioned for this tour and we could not have been more pleased. Before we arrived I emailed Tushar and he was always prompt and informative with his replies. We had a clean air conditioned car and a skilled friendly driver - The company uses official licensed Indian guides at each site such as the Red Fort and Qutub Minar. These guides are paid for already and were very knowledgeable and experts in their area. We took a bike ride through the main market and a walking tour of Old Delhi. So interesting ! It is a long day but completely satisfying. We had wanted to see the Lotus temple which is not on the itinerary so when the tour was over at around 4:30 pm the guide had the driver take us to the temple and wait for us as we walked around - The driver was more than courteous and patient with us. We did not want to visit any major craft shops and they respected our decision. The entire day can be arranged per your individual needs and we were never rushed or felt like we were on a timetable - Lunch was not included so we treated our driver and guide at an inexpensive fast food place and it was a lot of fun. We can not under emphasize the professionalism and respect with which we were treated. It was a pleasant and informative day and we saw all the major sites. We highly recommend this tour and especially the tour company.
 

Review by:   Jean F,    April 2015 Review: 5 star rating: Highly Recommended
What a wonderful day we spent looking at the sights of old and new Dehli. Our guide for the day was Sonny and a most creditable that we could have had. As the American President was about to come to Dehli some of the places we were to visit were a little difficult so Sonny consulted with us and suggested that perhaps that we might like to visit the house where Gandhi was assinated a most aw inspiring experience that I have had. Hopefully we will be able to get back to Dehli next time we visit India and we will certainly use Viator again
 

Review by:   Jackie M,    October 2014 Review: 5 star rating: Highly Recommended
Sunny was an excellent guide and we got to see a lot and experience life in old Delhi. This tour was well worth taking.
 

Review by:   Reka N,    August 2014 Review: 4 star rating: Recommended
Highly recommended tour for first time in Delhi. It was real private tour, they picked me up in time from my hotel. My tour guide was Sabyasachi Blessed, he's a very good guide, knows and tells a lot about the history of the place, so you get an impression of the city. The tour was what I was looking forward, to see old and new Delhi in one day. What I missed a bit, that we spent too short time at the spice market, there I would have stayed longer, not only to visit one shop and from the tour I also missed the Gurdwara Bangla Sahib (however the Ganj Sahib Gurdwara we visited)
 

Review by:   Mark R,    April 2014 Review: 3 star rating: Worth doing
Unfortunately it was not the best tour I've been on. The sites were all fascinating but the guide was so-so. He was very nice, but not a trained tour guide. He only seemed to know a few facts from each of the sites (things we could have read on the signs) and we had to ask many questions to draw the information out of him. Some of his information was incorrect (such as that Shah Jahan had 2 daughters survive until adulthood, but he had 3 that did so). He skipped one of the sites because he said we didn't have time, yet he dropped us off at the hotel at 3:00 p.m. when the tour was supposed to go until 6:00 p.m. It was like he had other places to go. In fact, he didn't know even know what sites were included on the tour and we had to show him the advertisement through Viator to prove that we were expecting an all-day tour. I think another big reason for the tour being shorter than advertised is that he didn't tell us that much information about the sites. Normally a tour guide spends lots time at each of the sites telling us things, but he only had a few facts to tell us about each site. As I mentioned, we had to pull more information out of him by asking questions. He spent time on the cell phone while we milled around reading the information signs on our own...to be fair, a friend of his had an accident and was in the hospital, and he was absorbed with concern for his friend. The car and driver were okay by India standards, although our tour the previous day with another company had bottled water for us (a nice touch on a hot day) and had clean windows for us to take pictures out of. One good thing I'll say for the tour guide is that it was nice having a body-builder with us at the market since people were all over us trying to sell us things, but he was able to get them to go away!
 

Review by:   Jill R,    April 2014 Review: 3 star rating: Worth doing
Unfortunately it was not the best tour I've been on. The sites were all fascinating but the guide was so-so. He was very nice, but not a trained tour guide. He only seemed to know a few facts from each of the sites (things we could have read on the signs) and we had to ask many questions to draw the information out of him. Some of his information was incorrect (such as that Shah Jahan had 2 daughters survive until adulthood, but he had 3 that did so). He skipped one of the sites because he said we didn't have time, yet he dropped us off at the hotel at 3:00 p.m. when the tour was supposed to go until 6:00 p.m. It was like he had other places to go. In fact, he didn't know even know what sites were included on the tour and we had to show him the advertisement through Viator to prove that we were expecting an all-day tour. I think another big reason for the tour being shorter than advertised is that he didn't tell us that much information about the sites. Normally a tour guide spends lots time at each of the sites telling us things, but he only had a few facts to tell us about each site. As I mentioned, we had to pull more information out of him by asking questions. He spent time on the cell phone while we milled around reading the information signs on our own...to be fair, a friend of his had an accident and was in the hospital, and he was absorbed with concern for his friend. The car and driver were okay by India standards, although our tour the previous day with another company had bottled water for us (a nice touch on a hot day) and had clean windows for us to take pictures out of. One good thing I'll say for the tour guide is that it was nice having a body-builder with us at the market since people were all over us trying to sell us things, but he was able to get them to go away!
 

Review by:   Mohammad A,    March 2014 Review: 5 star rating: Highly Recommended
highly recommended tour for first time in Delhi, it was comfortable private tour, pick up from my hotel, showed up before the time, with tour manager please do ask for Sabyasachi Blessed he is really good, know where to take you, and do the tour which suite your time. even if you asked him for places for shopping he will take you take to special shops. the tour was what im looking forward to see in Delhi in one day between old and new Delhi, and if you wish for more and you have time, its the tour you need
 

Review by:   Adam T,    January 2014 Review: 4 star rating: Recommended
Not a bad trip. There are a few interesting things to see in New and Old Dehli.
 

Review by:   JASe,    December 2013 Review: 5 star rating: Highly Recommended
My tour guide was marvelous and you will likely feel the same about this tour and guide. Travel is_br/_ safer and more convenient, when taken around by a polite, professional and local guide. Make it easy_br/_ on yourself and book this tour.
 

Review by:   Etienne H,    October 2013 Review: 2 star rating: It was OK, but could have been better
For a firt experience of India and Delhi it was a good way to hae an ovierview of the city. Yet, the guide finished his tour at 4pm instead of 6pm. In the morning the guide said that we will not have enough time to visit the red fort inside if we wanted to visit all the other monuments during the tour. At the end of the tour he refused to come back to red fort indicating tha it was too far away. He also insisted to bring me in a shop for tourists which was useless. The could have been much more interesting. Altogether the guide was not really concerned by his job.
 

Review by:   K J A,    February 2013 Review: 5 star rating: Highly Recommended
Very informative and a great way to see all the 'must see' aspects of Delhi in an organised fashion without an overload. There was just enough places to see without feeling it was too long and the guide was excellent.
 

Review by:   Subodh D,    February 2013 Review: 5 star rating: Highly Recommended
This was one of the best tours I've ever had- beautiful city! The tour guide named Ashish was passionate about the city and so extremely friendly, informative, and open to all questions. My family and I were able to learn not only about delhi's history but India's as well! Had the best experience!
 

Review by:   Vu H,    October 2012 Review: 5 star rating: Highly Recommended
This is a great tour. I recommend it if you either have little time or are planning to see Delhi for a few days or more. The tour gave my Wife and I a great outline and overall understanding of the city and it's culture.
 

Review by:   Alokananda R,    October 2012 Review: 3 star rating: Worth doing
The historical sights were great but our guide was not very good, she was young and did not have much knowledge about the historical sights, you need better guides.
 

Review by:   Sam,    October 2012 Review: 4 star rating: Recommended
Highly recommended. Guide was excellent. Had a great day with him..
 

Review by:   Munawar M,    October 2012 Review: 1 star rating: I do not recommend this
It is sorry to note that quality of the "guide" is not up to the any standard. He was not able to explain properly. The vehile used for the all journey is bad.
 

Review by:   Christine L,    October 2012 Review: 5 star rating: Highly Recommended
Absolutely fantastic, the guides were on time and very professional and knowledgeable. I will recommend them to anyone who travels to India.
 

Review by:   Erica L,    October 2012 Review: 3 star rating: Worth doing
I saw all the major highlights, and the guide was friendly and knowledgable. However, I was told (due to traffic in Delhi) that we would not be able to see everything on the itinerary and that we should choose what to miss out (we chose the markets). The tour should not be sold 'as is' if all the items cannot be covered. Delhi traffic is always a problem.
 

Review by:   Kellsie F,    October 2012 Review: 4 star rating: Recommended
A definite must to see the local India, not the tourist made visits. Without a guide, we would never have known about the local streets or shops. Great tour.
 

Review by:   Brian G,    October 2012 Review: 4 star rating: Recommended
Car was poor and we had to ask for seat belts that were tooked in the boot. These were very dirty. The guide though Mr Ali was magnificant and not only had good knowledge but took notice of our needs at all times.
 

Review by:   Barbara R,    October 2012 Review: 5 star rating: Highly Recommended
A most worthwhile trip - especially if you have a limited time in Delhi. The highlight for me was wandering the markets of Old Delhi and experiencing the sights, sounds and smells. I was not prepared for the amount of walking involved and would highly recommend very good walking shoes. The guide was knowledgable, pleasant and very attentive.
 

Review by:   Wenda D,    October 2012 Review: 4 star rating: Recommended
Informative and interesting day, with sightseeing and interesting experiences, including a cycle rickshaw and sampling samosas in the street market.
 

Review by:   Andrea P,    October 2012 Review: 4 star rating: Recommended
Wonderful to see all the landmarks both historical and current with a concise background.
 

Review by:   Eden P,    August 2012 Review: 4 star rating: Recommended
Thoroughly enjoyed the day. Our guides were very pleasant and knowledgeable and made us feel really welcome. They also didn't try to push us into affiliated shops to buys goods which was a welcome relief. Would highly recommend.
 

Review by:   Michael D,    August 2012 Review: 4 star rating: Recommended
This was an interesting and informative tour. There are a lot of great sights in Delhi (Old and New) and both the guide and driver were excellent. The only problem with this tour and others is that you are taken to shopping areas when you do not want to shop. If I wanted a shopping tour I would have ordered it.
 

Review by:   David H B,    June 2012 Review: 2 star rating: It was OK, but could have been better
Tour itenerary was good as far as seeing the highlights. Tour was in the hot part of the year and would have preferred to have seen it start earlier that 9am to avoid more of the heat. There are things in Delhi to see that do not require an admission so they could have been visited during early hours._br/_ Guide was knowledgable but seemed more focused on getting done than what we would have expected. The heat played a part. The tour ended up 6 hours instead of the 8 as advertized._br/_ What we did see was indeed interesting and would like to get back to see the balance.
 

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USD $148.00
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