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Shimla Tour Guide – Sumit Vashisht

Tour Escort / Heritage Guide : I am deeply associated with the Tourism industry for the last sixteen years. Having traveled extensively in India I consider it privileged to introduce myself as a Professionally Qualified and an Experienced Tour Companion. Escorting tourist has been an essential part of my assignment. 
I returned to Shimla, my hometown in 2000 and began to work as a freelance Tour Escort  and Heritage Tour  Guide

As A Tour Companion : I understand that a visitor who comes from a far away place to see our country, deserves to be given an insight into the knowledge of everything he wants to see, know or visit. In last Sixteen year I have accompanied and assisted a number of Tourists from different parts of the world. Escorting for me is not only Accompanying Tourists, Helping them Check into hotels, Coordinating with the Local Agents, Guides & Cab Drivers, Buying Entrance tickets for visits such as to Museums / Monuments and other sightseeing attractions or Looking after the meals being served in time, but it is also to interact with them on topics such as Religion, History, Lifestyle, Culture, Cricket, Politics, Judiciary, Education, Military, Police, Marriages, Society, Partition, Militancy, Tourist Arrivals, Old Age Homes, Heritage, Challenges of Tourism, Traffic Problem, Maintenance of Roads – The list is endless.

Tourists want to know more and more and they deserve that too. Guides are available only at the Monuments and other sightseeing points where as an Escort remains with the tourists all the time. When I well know that my clients are interested in putting across a wide range of queries, I must endeavor to satisfy them the best I can.


As a Guide to Heritage : I have a vast store of knowledge of Shimla. I started working Buildings in & around here as a Heritage Tour Guide in 2000 and have Studied in detail the Origin & History Shimla of this British Himalayan Town. This 190 years old town was entirely set up by British Officers. They arrived here in 1815 and decided to use it as a Summer Capital of British Empire in future. Interestingly my clients are those Britishers who come to see the old houses built by their parents and Grand Parents. Many of them were born, grew up and studied here. I maintain most of the records available of Shimla that helps me finding the Old Houses, Churches, Cemeteries where their forefathers are buried, Nursing Homes where they were born, Records of the Churches where they were Baptized, The roads on which they walked and the offices they worked in.

 
  • Tour Guide Services:

    Heritage Walks.,
    Nature Walks.
    Coach Tours.
    Walking Tours.
    Route Planning.
    Jeep Safari.
    Monastery Visits.
    Camping Holidays
    Village Visits.
    Home Stay.

  • Transportation by Tour Guide:

    Yes

  • Tour Guide Interests:

    Writing. (Author of Shimla Bazaar)
    (Author of the Cofee Table Book Shimla - A British Himalayan
    Town)
    Painting. (Landscape in Watar Color & Acrilyc Paint.
    Sketching. (Ink Drawings of different Architectures)
    Reading.

  • Tour Guide Testimonials

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    Peter stabler 01 Aug 2008 Download
     
tourist guide Sumit in Shimla

Professional license / certificate:

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Tour Guide Experience: 17 year(s)

City of Residence:  Shimla
Gender:  Male
Age:  43
Primary Language:  English

  • Preferred Currency:
    Euro
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    Base Rates Per Person:
    7.00
     Per Hour

    50.00
     Per Day
    Min Tour Length: 2  hours
    Max Tour Length: 8  hours

Default Meeting Address:
Hotel lobby of the client

Himachal Pradesh, India