All destinations
Every place we’ve built journeys around.
We don’t pretend to know everywhere. Below are the regions we’ve walked, returned to, and built relationships in. If a place isn’t here, ask us — we’ll either send you to someone better, or tell you it’s on our list.
Uttarakhand
Auli & Garhwal
The Garhwal high country — Auli, Joshimath, the Valley of Flowers — for travellers who want meadows and serious mountains in one trip.
West Bengal
Bishnupur
The terracotta temple town of the Malla kings. Brick the colour of dried blood, panels that read like a Mahabharata graphic novel.
Rajasthan
Bundi
A blue-painted hill town with a 14th-century palace nobody renovated, stepwells in residential lanes, and Kipling's old guesthouse still standing.
Gujarat
Champaner-Pavagadh
India's only pre-Mughal Islamic city left intact — UNESCO-listed, almost empty of tourists, with a living Kalika temple still drawing pilgrims to the hilltop above.
Himachal Pradesh
Dharamshala & McLeodganj
The Dalai Lama's town and the Dhauladhar foothills — for travellers who want a Tibetan Buddhist circuit without the Ladakh winter.
Karnataka
Gokarna
A temple town with five beaches the buses do not reach. Karnataka coast, Brahmin priests at dawn, fishing boats at dusk.
Assam
Kaziranga
Two-thirds of the world's one-horned rhinos. Elephant grass taller than the jeep. Nothing else looks like it.
Madhya Pradesh
Khajuraho
A thousand-year-old temple complex in a small Bundelkhand town. Best read slowly, panel by panel, in the cool hours.
Lakshadweep
Lakshadweep
Ten inhabited atolls 400 km off Kerala. Permit-only. Coir villages, reef lagoons, and a tuna economy that still runs the day.
Andhra Pradesh
Lepakshi
A 16th-century Vijayanagara temple with India's largest monolithic Nandi, a hanging pillar, and ceiling murals nobody has retouched in 470 years.
Tamil Nadu
Madurai
A working temple city that has been a working temple city for two thousand years. The Meenakshi complex still runs five pujas a day.
Tamil Nadu
Mahabalipuram
Pallava rock-cut shore temples, granite carved like fabric, and a stone-carving guild still working seven streets back from the sea.
Madhya Pradesh
Maheshwar
Ahilyabai Holkar's eighteenth-century river town on the Narmada. Ghats, a fort, and the loom-shed that still weaves the Maheshwari sari.
Madhya Pradesh
Mandu
A 12-square-kilometre ridge-top city of Afghan-style tombs and pavilions, abandoned in the 1700s, now grazed by goats and visited by almost no one.
Uttarakhand
Munsiyari & Kumaon
Kumaon's quieter side — Munsiyari, Binsar, the villages where Corbett wrote — for travellers who want forests and the Panchachuli range.
Kerala
Periyar
Walking safaris, not jeep drives. Elephants from a boat. The South Indian park we actually send people to.
Puducherry
Pondicherry
The French Quarter is fifteen blocks. The rest is a Tamil port town. Aurobindo Ashram at four. Auroville at sunset. Don't conflate them.
Rajasthan
Pushkar
A small lake town held together by a Brahma temple, fifty-two ghats, and a camel fair the rest of India has mostly forgotten how to read.
Rajasthan
Ranthambhore
Tigers against ruins. Crowded, and worth it for the right four days in March or April.
Maharashtra
Ratnagiri
Konkan coast, mango country. Alphonso orchards behind black-rock beaches. Ganpatipule's temple, Jaigad's fort, Velas's turtles.
Sikkim
Sikkim
A small Himalayan state with monasteries, rhododendron forests, and a view of Kanchenjunga that earns the trip on its own.
West Bengal
Sundarbans
The only mangrove tiger forest in the world. You won't see a tiger. That's almost the point.
Maharashtra
Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve
Quieter than Bandhavgarh in March, drier than Pench in May. Tigers come down to the lakes when the heat sets in.
Tamil Nadu
Tarangambadi
Once Tranquebar, the Danish trading post on the Coromandel. A fort on the Bay of Bengal, Lutheran graves, and the old Tamil agraharam behind.
Maharashtra
Tarkarli
Sindhudurg coast, Maharashtra. A river meets the Arabian Sea at a Maratha sea-fort. Malvani fish-curry kitchens. No resorts worth naming.
Arunachal Pradesh
Tawang
The far north-east — Tawang monastery, the Sela Pass, Bumla on the China border — for travellers willing to do a hard road for a rare place.
Central India
Bandhavgarh
The highest tiger density in India. Walking safaris allowed.
Central India
Kanha
Sal forests, sambar at dusk, the Banjar river running through.
Central India
Pench
Kipling's jungle. Leaner crowds, leopard country.
Central India
Satpura
On-foot, kayak, and night drives — India's most flexible park.
Trans-Himalaya
Ladakh
Monastery valleys, snow leopards in winter, slow tea at altitude.
Trans-Himalaya
Spiti
Cold-desert villages, 1,000-year-old monasteries, no signal.
Garhwal Himalaya
Uttarakhand
High meadows, the Valley of Flowers, char dham in low season.
Northern Plains
Banaras
The river, the lanes, and a city that has never paused.
Rajasthan
Jaipur
The pink city, but seen through the families that built it.
Rajasthan
Jodhpur
The blue city, stepwells, and Mehrangarh against a desert sky.
Coast
Kerala Backwaters
Houseboats, fishing villages, a quieter way to spend a week.
Coast
Andaman Islands
Forest-fringed coves, no resort strips, snorkel at dawn.