grace church school trip to vasant valley, india 2010
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A Grace International Exchange Program trip to IndiaTRANSCRIPT
NamasteGrace Church School’s Visit to Vasant Valley School and Northern India, 2010
This book is dedicated with tremendous gratitude to our host families at Vasant Valley School.
After almost seven months of studying Indian history and culture, fifteen seventh and eighth grade students and three chaperones had the opportunity to visit India during the March vacation period.
We spent a week with our host families in Delhi. We learned what it was like to be a student at Vasant Valley School. It was hard to leave our Indian families and friends.
Our second week was spent visiting temples, palaces and forts in and around Agra, Jaipur, Nimaj, and Jodhpur.
Grace Church School’s Visit to Vasant Valley School and Northern India, 2010
At Vasant Valley School in New Delhi
Touring Old and New Delhi
Visiting with Ambassador Timothy Roemer at the United States Embassy in New Delhi
Visiting a Deepayala school for underprivileged youth in Delhi
At the Taj Mahal in Agra
At Fatehpur Sikri, former capital of the Mughal Empire, built by Akbar the Great in the 16th century
At the Taj Ramgarh Lodge in Jaipur, Rajasthan
At the Amber Fort near Jaipur, Rajasthan
At the Jantar Mantar astrological observatory in Jaipur, Rajasthan
Our fabulous tour guide, Shiv, shares his beloved Rajasthan with us
Our day at the Kheda School in Nimaj, Rajasthan
Trying out an alternative form of transportation in rural Rajasthan
Visiting a farm near the camel ride in rural Rajasthan
At the Meherangarh Fort, the setting for Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, in Jodhpur, Rajasthan
Views from our bus
The many faces of India
Other moments from our trip
We thank you for the experience of a lifetime!
Namaste