Sumit Vashisht

Guide profile:

Tour Escort / Heritage Guide : I am deeply associated with Tourism Industry since 1993 and has been working as a Heritage Guide. I organize Jeep Safari, Trekking, Camping, Heritage Walks, Nature Walks, Transportation and Hotel Bookings. My Walks in Shimla are famous for Historical and Natural places in and around this lovely town.

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 - A 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/sample itinerary:

Heritage Walks.,

Nature Walks.

Walking Tours.

Jeep Safari.

Trekking.

Day Hikes.

Monastery Visits.

Camping Holidays

Village Visits.

Home Stay.

Transportation by tour guide:

Yes

Private sightseeing & group tours offered by this guide:

Tour guide interests:

Writing. (Author of the Coffee Table Book Shimla - A British Himalayan Town)

(Author of Shimla Bazaar)

Painting. (Landscape in Watar Color & Acrilyc Paint.

Sketching. (Ink Drawings of different Architectures)

Reading.