Foods + Festivals · Grand Tour
The Pan-India Grand Tour
Eight cities, the whole country's table, one point of contact.
The route
The full-country version: Old Delhi to the ghats of Varanasi, Bengal's tables, Hyderabadi biryani, and a South India close — all one Travel Manager, start to finish.
Varanasi
The ghats
Ganga aarti at dusk, a sunrise boat ride at dawn — one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on earth, seen from the water.
Day by day
Delhi
A Chandni Chowk food walk, Karim's and Al Jawahar, and a haveli dinner in Old Delhi.
Lucknow
Awadhi galouti kebab, dum biryani, and sheermal, with a cooking class and the Tunday legacy walk.
Varanasi
Ganga aarti at dusk and a sunrise boat ride along the ghats — timed to Dev Deepawali's ghat illumination if your dates land in November.
Kolkata
Bengali maach-bhaat, Park Street's legacy dining rooms, and the city's sandesh and rasgulla makers.
Hyderabad
Paradise or Bawarchi dum biryani and a Nawabi haveli dinner — haleem included if your dates fall during Ramzan.
Madurai
Meenakshi Temple and the region's banana-leaf breakfast-and-lunch tradition.
Kochi
A Sadhya feast, backwaters kitchen, and a toddy shop visit with a vetted host.
Mumbai, send-off
A coastal-Konkan close, final packing help, and an airport drop timed to your flight.
What's included
- Private car and driver (or domestic flights where distance requires) across all eight cities
- One continuous Travel Manager relationship for the full 24 days
- Cooking classes and home-hosted meals in five of the eight cities
- Ganga aarti and sunrise boat ride in Varanasi
- Your dedicated Travel Manager, on WhatsApp for the whole trip
What it costs
Quoted per journey
No two of these run the same way. What it costs depends on your dates, how many of you are travelling, where you want to stay, and how much of the circuit you want. Tell your Travel Manager what you have in mind and you get a written quote for exactly that — with no planning fee on top.
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