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We don't sell packages. We listen, we propose, we refine — until we've designed something that no one else has ever travelled.
Tell us how long you have, who's travelling, what moves you. Forts and palaces? Wildlife? Wellness in Kerala? Textiles, food, festivals? We listen first.
Within a week, a hand-built itinerary — boutique stays, private guides, the small experiences that turn a trip into a memory. We refine until it feels right.
Marigold welcome at the airport. A WhatsApp number that is always answered. A team across India, ready to adjust on the day if the day needs adjusting.
Distilled from three decades of custom tours — four sample journeys, of different shapes, tiers and ambitions. Read them, borrow from them, ignore them. Your version will be one of a kind.
Delhi · Shimla · Mumbai · Pench · Kanha · Varanasi · Agra · Ranthambore · Jaipur · Udaipur
Mughal capitals, Himalayan hill stations, two jungle reserves, and the ghats of Varanasi. A north-India sweep, broader than deep.
Read the itinerary →Delhi · Agra · Ranthambore · Jaipur · Udaipur · Mumbai · Cochin · Backwaters · Kumarakom
Both Indias — Mughal forts and tiger country in the north, then a kettuvallam houseboat through the green Kerala backwaters. Oberoi-grade throughout.
Read the itinerary →Delhi · Kathmandu · Pokhara · Paro · Mandawa · Bikaner · Jaisalmer · Jodhpur · Deogarh · Jaipur · Agra · Amritsar
India, Nepal & Bhutan — the Everest range from a mountain flight, Tiger's Nest in Paro, four desert citadels of Rajasthan, and the Golden Temple at Amritsar.
Read the itinerary →Delhi · Agra · Jaipur · Udaipur · Mumbai — The Oberoi, Rambagh, Taj Lake Palace, Taj Mahal Palace.
Pre-Mughal, Mughal, Raj and Modern India — four chapters of Indian history, told through landmark stays in five iconic cities. The very finest of India, end to end.
Read the itinerary →Delhi, Agra and Jaipur for first-time travellers. Six to ten days of monuments, marigolds and an unforgettable dawn at the Taj.
Two to three weeks through Jaipur, Jodhpur, Udaipur, Jaisalmer — heritage havelis, lake palaces, camel dunes at Khuri.
Backwater houseboats, Cochin spice markets, hill-station tea plantations, Ayurvedic retreats on the Malabar coast.
Ladakh's monasteries, Shimla's colonial bones, the toy train to Darjeeling, Bhutan as an extension if time allows.
Tigers at Ranthambore and Bandhavgarh, leopards at Jhalana, the one-horned rhinoceros at Kaziranga, jungle lodges throughout.
Holi in Mathura, Diwali in Jaipur, the Pushkar camel fair, Onam in Kerala, the Hornbill Festival in Nagaland — timed and built around the date.
Two things travellers rarely think to ask for, and almost always thank us for afterwards — a few nights in a tiger reserve, and an unhurried stay at Ananda in the Himalayas. Neither needs its own holiday. Both fold into a private journey without pulling it apart.
India holds roughly three-quarters of the world's wild tigers, the only Asiatic lions left on earth, and the one-horned rhino of the Brahmaputra floodplain. Two drives a day, an open 4×4, a naturalist assigned to you, and a lodge of eight to twenty-five suites rather than sixty rooms.
Three hours from Jaipur, so the simplest tiger reserve to drop into a Golden Triangle or Rajasthan itinerary. Tented camps at the park gate.
The serious version — the highest tiger density in India, then Kipling's sal forest and the barasingha. Flown into via Jabalpur, usually after Agra.
Assam, for one-horned rhino at close quarters — sightings are near certain, often within the first hour. Pairs with Kolkata or a Himalayan leg.
The last wild Asiatic lions, in Gujarat, and remarkably easy to find. An easy addition to a Mumbai or Rajasthan route.
For journeys in the south — elephant herds and the black panther on the Kabini backwaters, two hours from Mysuru.
A hundred acres of sal forest and a Maharaja's palace above Rishikesh — and, at the same time, a serious medical wellness centre. A doctor writes your week after a consultation on arrival. Nothing is compulsory: some guests do six hours of therapy a day, some read by the pool.
Long enough to stop, not long enough to change much. Best placed after three nights in Delhi and Agra, before the rest of the journey.
The shortest genuinely therapeutic stay — rejuvenation, sleep or stress programmes begin to work, and the doctor can adjust mid-stay. Rishikesh and the Ganges aarti on the way out.
What weight, pain and fitness programmes need to shift something you can measure. Then Rajasthan afterwards, unhurried.
The classical staged cleanse, which cannot honestly be compressed. Keep the rest of the trip gentle and fly home from Delhi.
At the beginning, to arrive over the jet lag and start the journey rested — or at the very end, so India finishes quietly rather than at an airport.
Delhi, the Taj at dawn and Jaipur, then three tiger drives from a tented camp at the Ranthambore gate. The gentlest way to add a forest to a first trip.
Seven nights of therapy in the Himalayan foothills first, then Jaipur, Jodhpur and Udaipur at half the usual speed — because by then you will want it that way.
Cochin, a kettuvallam houseboat through the backwaters and the Munnar tea hills, then elephant herds and the black panther on the Kabini reservoir.
Bandhavgarh and Kanha for the forests, Agra for the Taj Mahal, and a closing week at Ananda so the journey ends rested instead of exhausted.
Mumbai's island city and Elephanta, the Gir forest for wild Asiatic lions, then Udaipur's lake palaces to finish. Best December to April.
Kolkata, four nights at Kaziranga for the one-horned rhino, then Varanasi for the evening aarti and Delhi for the flight home.
Every one of these is a starting point, not a package. Tell us which animal you came for, or how you would like to feel when you land home, and we will build the rest of the journey around it.
A short conversation is all it takes to set things in motion. We'll come back to you with thoughts within a week.
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