“A tourist stays on the surface, the skin, of the places he visits but the explorer penetrates to their heart.” Thomas Pynchon

Our India small group tours combine India’s world famous cultural, artistic and natural wonders with some of our favorite, little-known places where India reveals herself in intimate, unrehearsed ways. The people we meet in neighborhood temples, local markets and family homes are full of warmth, joy and love of life.

Travel with us into vibrant cities where the pulse of modern India lives comfortably with ancient tradition and a stunning architectural heritage, legacy of many dynasties and kingdoms, and into India’s beautiful countryside with its traditional villages, serene rivers, carefully-tended fields, billowing trees, and temples with their brightly painted spires, visible far off.

Join us on a Himalayan tour or trek and explore traditional villages set amidst emerald green terraced rice, wheat and barley fields. Here Tibetan Buddhist monasteries balance dramatically on rocky outcrops, powerfully built archaic Hindu temples of rough stone, wood and slate house powerful autochthonous gods that are worshipped still, animist spirits shelter under mighty cedars. We’ll see herders moving their flocks of sheep up to high summer pastures, nomads tending herds of yak and pashmina goats.

India is a land of many people, many religions, cuisines, cultures, languages, music and dance forms, and an amazing round of festivals. We have been fascinated with India since we first arrived in this country. We hope you will join us on one of our Trips Into India.