New Delhi: The railways have extended the famed Indian hospitality to Bhutan's visiting royal couple by arranging a special luxury train for their honeymoon trip to Rajasthan.
Bhutan's King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Queen Jetsun Pema, who married on October 13, arrived in India on Sunday on a nine-day visit.
The royal couple will honeymoon in Rajasthan on the special train that will take them to its forts and palaces and its tiger sanctuaries. The Bhutan king had visited the Ranthambhore tiger sanctuary last October and was fascinated by the state's forts, forests and heritage hotels.
Sources said yesterday that following a request from the ministry of external affairs, the railways have provided a small train with a saloon — a luxury coach with a bedroom, dining space and a pantry — besides a few air-conditioned bogies to accommodate the security personnel and staff accompanying the royal couple.
"It will be a small train pulled by a light engine. It will be treated as a VIP movement on our tracks," said a senior railway official.
Bhutan's King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Queen Jetsun Pema, who married on October 13, arrived in India on Sunday on a nine-day visit.
The royal couple will honeymoon in Rajasthan on the special train that will take them to its forts and palaces and its tiger sanctuaries. The Bhutan king had visited the Ranthambhore tiger sanctuary last October and was fascinated by the state's forts, forests and heritage hotels.
Sources said yesterday that following a request from the ministry of external affairs, the railways have provided a small train with a saloon — a luxury coach with a bedroom, dining space and a pantry — besides a few air-conditioned bogies to accommodate the security personnel and staff accompanying the royal couple.
"It will be a small train pulled by a light engine. It will be treated as a VIP movement on our tracks," said a senior railway official.
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