I note on the website at this time (I saw more tours before) that you are only showing ONE tour for Sameer on October 6, 2009. When the new 09/10 Brochures come out will there be more offerings for his tours? I hope so!
The tour is very similar to "Amongst the Maharajahs" but adds a lot more "adventure" with the chance to see leopards at night, the deluxe tents in the Thar Desert (vs the deluxe tents now quite a way from the lake near Deogarh as a result of no rain the last few years)and the most exciting a camel trip through the Thar Desert. Having been on camels in Aswan, Egypt we are really looking forward to having a chance to ride camels again and why not now in India!
If there are no more than the one tour with Sameer, count us in (there will be three). Thank you and I look forward to hearing if there are more than just this one trip as we kind of hoped to go in November rather than October.
Thank you again.
Sameer's Rajasthan
Hello MAB225
Thanks for your post (and thank you evry much for your reply to my local payment post on the other thread as well!).
We do indeed have three departures of "Sameer's Rajasthan" trips scheduled for 2009, which I know that Sameer is really looking forward to running.
Dates are as follows:
06-27 October 2009
03-24 November 2009
01-22 December 2009
So, good news and you will be able to go in November. You can book in the normal way through your agent or with us. The tour code is HTSR.
We think these trips will be very popular as Sameer has a lot of fans out there - quite right too! I would recommend booking as soon as possible.
Best Wishes,
Kelly
INVITATION TO ALL MY FRIENDS FOR SAMEER'S RAJASTHAN
Dear Kelly,
Recently sent this invitation out to all my travel buddies as after a total of 6 tours with ImTrav (2 were back to back) we think this tour company is great and we are ready to do it again!
"This is the real deal and I would truly like everyone who ever THOUGHT of travelling to India to join my sister, Jen, and I on the following tour:
www.imaginative-traveller.com trip code HTSR - November 3 to Nov 24, 2009.
As we live in Canada, we will be travelling for two days to arrive on November 2nd so we can get in a sleep before the afternoon tour of Delhi on Day 1 of the tour on November 3rd. This is a once in a life-time trip, lead by a real "Prince" of India to his own homeland of Rajasthan, and we would like you to join us.
ImTrav says please book as soon as possible as this will be a very popular tour because of Sameer. ImTav is a small "group" travel company -- only 15 people per tour so if you EVER thought of India and would like to join me and we can travel once more together, then call your travel agent NOW and put down a deposit .
If you put down your deposit before October 31, 2008 then your trip price is guaranteed at the 2008 amount.
Please check this out on the web as I would love to meet up with you again. Remember, friends are precious and time is short and we MUST enjoy ever minute we have."
Hopefully we will have a tour with several of our friends joining us plus a few others.
We have already got one gal on board from Australia who has put down her deposit for these dates!
Sameer's Rajasthan
Wow that's fantastic!
I am sure there will be no shortage of volunteers to join you on the tour.
I'm so pleased to read as well that you have done 6 trips back to back and enjoyed them all.
Trouble is, as soon as you have finished one trip you want to start thinking about the next one, so good for you that you are already planning your 2009 adventure.
Keep in touch!
Best Regards
Kelly
Sameer's rajasthan.
Having had Sam as our guide for Among the Maharajahs I am looking forward to the 2010 travel brochure to see if we can fit a tour in with Sam and another tour back to back to South India.... One thing we are sorry about is the Tigers and Tribals. I really wanted to take the original 3 week one that went from Kolkota to Mumbai. Now it has been shortened and is only a circular tour.....
Keep up the good work your tours are the best.
Sameer's Trips
Dear Ballylawn,
We are so looking forward to a trip with Sameer. He does have some travels back to Rajasthan in 2010 but not perhaps where you wish to travel.
We had originally thought to do the Maharajahs but when this trip came up we were "hooked". I hope that we are going to some of the hotels that you stayed at.
I truly enjoy ImTrav and have travelled with them the last several years. Enjoy the small groups and the "like-minded" people we meet.
If you have any insight to where we are travelling, please don't hesitate to correspond and thank you for your initial response.
Maureen (from Canada)