A meeting with your Global Action Trip Leader at school to check your kit, run through health and safety briefings, and have an introduction to Indian culture and the organisations you will be visiting.

Overnight flight to Amritsar and travel to Dharamsala through rural Punjab. Settle into your hotel before a local market tour with your guide.

Based in Dharamshala, a variety of visits and seminars on Tibetan Buddhism, Hinduism, life as a refugee, human rights, environmental protection, access to education and social enterprise. Debating monks, Hindi and meditation lessons, a secular ethics workshop with Indian teenagers, and a blessing from a Hindu Priest. Option to participate in a service project at a local Indian primary school.

A morning in the Mcleod Ganj markets to barter for those last-minute souvenirs, and an afternoon of Indian cultural dress and Bollywood dancing!

A guided visit to the magnificent Golden Temple pilgrimage site to learn about Sikhism. The team makes chapattis and helps serve meals alongside Sikh volunteers at the Gur-Ka-Langar, a huge dining room serving thousands of pilgrims a day after temple prayers.

A Final Review session of your trip learning - then it's time to go home!