Itinerary*  | UPDATED |

IMPORTANT

Field Trip tour around Bhuj, refreshments, meals, and entertainment is included in conference registration, flight and hotel is excluded.

Flights

It is the responsibility of delegates to arrange and pay for their own flights to/from Bhuj.

Please note that advised outgoing flight from Mumbai is Thursday 21 November 06.35 Air India AI9625, arriving Bhuj 08.30

Owing to recent Jet Airways insolvency, until further notice, there is now no return flight to Mumbai Friday 22 November; next flight is Saturday 23 November: Air India AI9626 depart Bhuj 08.55, arrive Mumbai 10.55.

Hotel

Owing to changes in flight options to Mumbai, until further notice, two nights are required (delegates are free to make other arrangements on the Friday if they prefer).

Hotel accommodation at The Prince at Bhuj will be booked by Ashapura, and delegates pay on check-out. 

EARLY BOOKING ESSENTIAL

Thursday 21 November

06.35 depart Mumbai Airport Air India AI9625 to Bhuj

08.30 arrive Bhuj, Gujarat

09.30 Bentonite & kaolin mines

13.00 Lunch

14.30 Check into hotel, The Prince, Bhuj

Rest period

17.00 Vande Mataram Memorial Museum with light show

The Vande Mataram Memorial is a humble and yet the most ambitious offering of the Ashapura Group to the nation. The Memorial is a non-profit institution that seeks to immortalize the most momentous episodes in India’s freedom struggle from the revolt of 1857 right up to the country’s Independence in 1947.

Dinner at Prince Hotel

Friday 22 November

09.00 Baraya processing complex (bauxite, bentonite, kaolin, GCC)

12.00 Lunch

13.00 Ashapura R&D Centre

14.00 Perfoclay plant

16.00 Back to hotel

PLEASE NOTE: Owing to recent Jet Airways insolvency, until further notice, there is now no return flight to Mumbai Friday 22 November; next flight is Saturday 23 November: Air India AI9626 depart Bhuj 08.55, arrive Mumbai 10.55

* subject to change