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.
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.
Madhya Pradesh
Pench
Kipling's jungle. Leaner crowds, leopard country.
Madhya Pradesh
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.
Uttarakhand
Uttarakhand
High meadows, the Valley of Flowers, char dham in low season.
Uttar Pradesh
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.
Kerala
Kerala Backwaters
Houseboats, fishing villages, a quieter way to spend a week.
Andaman & Nicobar Islands
Andaman Islands
Forest-fringed coves, no resort strips, snorkel at dawn.
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.
Rajasthan
Jaisalmer
One of the world's last inhabited fortresses — roughly 3,000 people still live inside the walls — plus the merchant havelis and the dunes past Khuri.
Karnataka
Hampi
The ruined capital of Vijayanagara across 26 square kilometres of boulder field — a World Heritage site you explore by bicycle and coracle.
Maharashtra
Ajanta & Ellora
Two rock-cut sites 100 km apart — 2nd-century BCE Buddhist painting at Ajanta, and at Ellora a Hindu temple carved downward out of one cliff.
Odisha
Konark
A 13th-century temple built as the sun god's chariot — twenty-four carved stone wheels, seven horses — and the least-crowded stretch of the Odisha coast behind it.
Karnataka
Mysore
The Wodeyar palace lit by 97,000 bulbs on Sunday nights, a hill temple above the city, and the sandalwood-and-silk trades that still run here.
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.
West Bengal
Kolkata
The old imperial capital, still the most literary city in India — coffee house arguments, a working Chinatown breakfast, and Kumartuli's clay idol lanes.
Telangana
Hyderabad
Qutb Shahi tombs, a fort with acoustics that carry a handclap to the summit, and the most serious biryani argument in India.
Gujarat
Ahmedabad
India's first UNESCO World Heritage City — pol houses and secret courtyards, Gandhi's ashram on the river, and Le Corbusier and Kahn a bus ride apart.
Tamil Nadu
Chennai
Carnatic music in December, a Pallava-era temple town inside the city, and Tamil Nadu's whole bronze-and-silk south starting an hour down the coast.
Karnataka
Bengaluru
Tipu Sultan's summer palace, a 240-year-old botanical garden, and the practical gateway to Hampi, Coorg and the Western Ghats.
Bihar
Bodh Gaya
The tree the Buddha sat under, a temple standing since the 6th century, and monasteries built by a dozen Buddhist nations around one square kilometre.
Odisha
Puri
One of the four Char Dham, a chariot festival that moves 400,000 people, and a temple kitchen that may be the largest in the world.
Andhra Pradesh
Tirupati
The most-visited place of worship on earth by footfall — tens of millions a year — run with a logistics operation worth seeing in its own right.
Maharashtra
Shirdi
A village that became one of India's largest pilgrimage destinations in a century — Sai Baba's samadhi, the fire that hasn't gone out, and Ahmednagar's forts nearby.
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.
Himachal Pradesh
Shimla
The Raj's summer capital, reached on a UNESCO-listed narrow-gauge line through 102 tunnels, with deodar ridge walks starting behind the Mall.
Himachal Pradesh
Manali
Head of the Kullu valley — cedar temples and hot springs in old Manali, and the road over Rohtang into Lahaul and Spiti.
Uttarakhand
Rishikesh
Where the Ganga leaves the mountains — evening aarti on the ghats, white water above town, and the trailhead for the Char Dham.
Uttarakhand
Nainital
A lake in a crater of oak and rhododendron, Kumaon's colonial hill capital, and Corbett and the Binsar forests within a short drive.
West Bengal
Darjeeling
Kangchenjunga at dawn from Tiger Hill, a steam railway that has run since 1881, and tea estates you can walk into rather than photograph.
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.
Kerala
Munnar
Tea to the horizon at 1,600 m, the Nilgiri tahr at Eravikulam, and a bamboo that flowers once every twelve years.
Tamil Nadu
Ooty & the Nilgiris
A UNESCO rack railway up to 2,240 m, shola-grassland found nowhere else, and Mudumalai's elephant corridors on the way down.