Holidays in Rural India

See rural Central India in the safe and friendly hands of a small highly professional Indian/English team, with a decade of experience taking care of guests from first contact to touch down back home. Based around beautiful Kanha National Park and the lovely Shergarh Tented Camp with its luxurious tents overlooking a pond thronging with birds and butterflies, frogs and fish, this trip aims to draw guests away from the more standard heavily jeep based, solely tiger focussed wildlife vacation. We are encouraging a safar in the true sense. A real journey exploring not just the wildlife but also the landscape and people in this lovely part of central India. The trip begins and ends in Mumbai ...Read more >

This tour aims to show you some of the highlights of central India without recourse to domestic flights. The train journeys are carefully chosen so you alight at the starting point of the train and mostly end at the train's final destination, so no anxiety about missing your stop. All journeys will be in first class cabins unless you want to take a day train in a simpler style. The tour starts in Mumbai in a lovely centrally located hotel from where you will take a tour with an ethically run company that gives 80% of its profits to educational projects in slum areas. From here to the undersung city of Bhopal for the incredible tribal museum, the Ashokan era Buddhist stupa at Sanchi and ...Read more >

A cradle of civilisation and culture. Kutch has seen vast migration in and out of its desert and monsoon dependent grassland landscape over thousands of year. The landscape is bare but beautiful: and and out of it, the most extraordinary wealth and variety of creativity, mainly textiles, as they are a way of people bringing their culture with them from other lands. This trip takes you to villages and workshops with an expert guide from a textile trading family. You'll meet people in their homes as well as in studio outlets, and although you'll have the opportunity to buy should you wish to, you'll see that people are happy to show you their creations with no pressure to purchase. You'll ...Read more >

From buzzing Mumbai to the heart of rural India. A first night night in Mumbai and then to beautiful Kanha National Park, and Katie and Jehan Bhujwala's gorgeous tented camp, overlooking a lake round which birds flock and dragonflies dance. Room sized tents have luxurious bathrooms for scrubbing off the dust after a park drive with the resident naturalist Raj, whose focus is very much on the forest as a whole and is not totally tiger-centric - though if you are lucky enough to see one of these beautiful wild creatures, you will understand their spine tingling allure. The focus here is not just on the national park but on the communities that live around the edges of the national park, ...Read more >