Hideaways · Custom Travels
Journeys that begin with a conversation.
Cultural Immersion
Banaras at first light, Jaipur's quiet courtyards, festivals on their actual days.
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Himalayan Ranges & High Altitude
The valleys we walk every season — Spiti, Ladakh, Garhwal, Sikkim.
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Bewilderness
Tigers, sambar, and the central-Indian forests we know by foot.
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Coast & Islands
Kerala backwaters, an Andaman cove that's still quiet, the Konkan coast in monsoon.
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Heritage
Forts, stepwells, and the small towns history forgot to commercialize.
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15 places worth a long conversation.
Madhya Pradesh
Bandhavgarh
The highest tiger density in India. Walking safaris allowed.
Madhya Pradesh
Kanha
Sal forests, sambar at dusk, the Banjar river running through.
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.
Uttar Pradesh
Banaras
The river, the lanes, and a city that has never paused.
Uttar Pradesh
Agra
The Taj at first light from the far bank, an emperor's prison cell with the best view in India, and a Mughal capital most people leave in four hours.
Delhi
Delhi
Eight cities stacked on one plain. We give you the two nobody schedules — Mehrauli at dawn and Nizamuddin on a Thursday night.
Rajasthan
Udaipur
A lake city that photographs too easily. Go up into the Aravallis behind it, and out to the stepwells and miniature-painting workshops.
Karnataka
Hampi
The ruined capital of Vijayanagara across 26 square kilometres of boulder field — a World Heritage site you explore by bicycle and coracle.
Punjab
Amritsar
The Harmandir Sahib at 4am, the world's largest free kitchen feeding 100,000 a day, and a partition museum that explains the rest of the city.
Maharashtra
Mumbai
Seven islands reclaimed into one city. Art Deco seafront, 6th-century island caves, and the dhobi and dabbawala systems that shouldn't work but do.
Jammu & Kashmir
Srinagar
Mughal gardens terraced into the Zabarwan, a lake city worked from shikaras before dawn, and the Sind and Lidder valleys an hour out.
Goa
Goa
Not the beach you were sold. Portuguese Goa inland — Chandor's mansions, the Divar island churches, and spice country up in the Sahyadri.
Kerala
Kochi
Portuguese, Dutch, Jewish and Chinese layers in one harbour town — a 1568 synagogue, cantilevered fishing nets, and the backwaters starting behind it.
Gujarat
Rann of Kutch
A salt desert the size of a small country — white to the horizon in winter, flamingo breeding ground in monsoon, and the last wild asses on earth.
Travelers’ notes
Three trips, three voices.
“Hideaways recently arranged trip for us to Sri Lanka. Very well arranged trip and we extremely enjoyed the experience. We felt our very close friend has organised the trip for us. Highly recommended. And very caring and friendly. Thanks a lot Shailesh ji and his entire team both in India and Sri Lanka.”
“Excellent Trip ! Very nice planning and management. Time and money spent is fully rewarded. Bhutan is a great place. Wish to join future groups also. The present group has become a family. Pleasure forever.”
“It's been an excellent experience with HideAways. This was my first Nainital Tour which was planned by them, but from now looking forward for more and more trips. Shailesh Sir and Jaspal Ma'am, both of them have been very kind and gave personal attention. Superb arrangements. Thank you so much !!”
Who plans this
Hideaways is run by Shailesh & Reena Vishwakarma in Indore. They’ve built every itinerary they sell over the last decade — on foot, in person, often more than once.