Tours

Where we can take you

Inbound and outbound, across the globe. Beach weeks and city breaks, cruises, heritage trails, pilgrimages, and the offbeat luxury places most agents will not book for you.

Tours and holidays

We start with what you want out of the trip rather than a fixed package. Some people want three cities in ten days. Others want one hotel and a book. Both are fine, but they need different plans.

Flights, hotels, airport transfers, local guides and entry tickets are booked and confirmed before you fly, and you get the whole itinerary with confirmation numbers in one document.

Outbound travel to Europe, the Far East, the Americas and beyond
Inbound tours across India for visitors and returning families
Ocean and river cruises
Offbeat luxury destinations most agents will not book
Family holidays, honeymoons and small group tours
Older travellers looked after properly

Heritage travel

Old places, told properly

A fort is just a wall until somebody tells you who held it and who lost it. Heritage travel lives or dies on the guide, so we book people who actually know the history rather than whoever happens to be standing at the gate.

Rajasthan palaces and stepwells, the Deccan forts, the cave temples at Ajanta and Ellora, Hampi, the old quarters of Delhi and Ahmedabad, and further out to Angkor, Petra, Egypt and the Silk Road cities. We keep the days shorter than most operators do, because six monuments before lunch is how people stop noticing them.

India is easier to understand when the trip is built around a thread rather than a list of stops, whether that thread is a dynasty, a trade route, a craft or a river. So we tend to build heritage trips around one: the temple architecture of the south from Mahabalipuram to Madurai, the Mughal line through Delhi, Agra and Fatehpur Sikri, the Buddhist circuit from Bodh Gaya to Sarnath and Sanchi, or the weavers and bronze casters still working in the towns nobody routes through.

Licensed guides briefed on the period, not just the building
Heritage hotels and havelis where they are worth staying in
Timed entry booked ahead for the sites that need it
Craft workshops, local museums and food that belongs to the region

Religious tourism

Yatras take a different kind of planning

Altitude, permits, weather windows, temple timings and the fact that many travellers in the group are over sixty. A pilgrimage is not a holiday with a temple stop added on, so we do not plan it like one.

We book stays close to the shrine rather than the cheapest hotel in town, keep the daily walking realistic, brief the group on rituals and dress before you arrive, and send someone who has done the route before. Registration, permits and darshan arrangements are handled ahead of time so nobody spends the morning in a queue.

Religious tourism is the part of the work we know best. Dr Megha Sharma has spent years on India’s sacred geography, covering the Dwadash Jyotirlingas, the Char Dham, the Shakti Peethas and the Sapta Moksha Puri. Most of our yatras are built around one of those circuits, either as a full route or in the stages families usually complete them in. If you are doing the twelve Jyotirlingas over several years, we will keep the record of where you have been and plan the next leg around it.

The group also matters. A family of four, a bhajan mandal of sixty and a temple trust chartering a coach all need different pacing, different food and different amounts of quiet, and the itinerary is written for whichever one you are.

Dwadash Jyotirlingas, Char Dham and Do Dham, Shakti Peethas and the Sapta Moksha Puri
Kailash Mansarovar, Vaishno Devi, Shirdi, Tirupati, Varanasi and Ayodhya
Jain, Sikh, Buddhist and Sufi circuits, and Holy Land travel
Permits, registration and darshan slots arranged in advance
Pacing, oxygen and medical cover set for older travellers
Satvik and Jain meal arrangements on request
Priests and local coordinators arranged where rituals are planned

Also handled

The admin nobody wants to do

You can take any of these on their own. Most people bundle them with a trip so there is one invoice and one person to write to.

Travel insurance

Cancellation cover, medical cover overseas and baggage claims, placed through Tata AIG, ICICI Lombard, IFFCO-Tokio and Reliance General.

Forex

Currency before you fly and multi-currency travel cards through EbixCash, with buyback when you return.

Group logistics

Coaches, rooming lists, meal preferences and the hundred small decisions that make a group trip work.

Passports and visas

Applications, renewals and country-specific visa filing, reviewed by our lawyers and chartered accountants.

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