Incredible India Holidays 2026 & 2027

🏰 Rajasthan — The Land of Kings. Rajasthan is India's most dramatically beautiful state — a land of desert forts, painted havelis, camel safaris and lakes reflecting fairy-tale palaces. Udaipur — the City of Lakes — is built around shimmering Lake Pichola with the Lake Palace Hotel floating at its centre. Jodhpur's blue-washed old city is dominated by the colossal Mehrangarh Fort. Jaisalmer rises from the Thar Desert as a golden sandstone citadel still inhabited after 850 years. Pushkar sits around a sacred lake visited by thousands of pilgrims and home to one of the world's greatest annual camel fairs.

🌴 Kerala — God's Own Country. Kerala is India's most lush and verdant state — a narrow coastal strip of coconut palms, spice estates, misty hill stations and serene backwater lagoons. The backwaters around Alleppey and Kumarakom are best experienced from a traditional rice barge houseboat drifting through a network of canals, lakes and rivers. Munnar's tea plantations blanket rolling highland hills in an endless emerald carpet. The beaches of Kovalam and Varkala offer cliff-top cafés, golden sands and calm Arabian Sea waters. Kochi's Fort Kochi neighbourhood preserves Dutch, Portuguese and British colonial layers alongside ancient Chinese fishing nets still in use.

🛕 Tamil Nadu — Land of Temples. Tamil Nadu is the spiritual heartland of South India — a state of soaring Dravidian temple towers (gopurams), classical Bharatanatyam dance, fragrant jasmine markets and ancient civilisation. The Meenakshi Amman Temple in Madurai is one of Asia's most spectacular religious complexes — a city within a city, its towers encrusted in thousands of painted deities. Mahabalipuram holds UNESCO World Heritage Shore Temple rock carvings by the Bay of Bengal. Mysore's Maharaja's Palace is one of India's most visited monuments. Hampi — across the border in Karnataka — is a breathtaking ruined capital of the Vijayanagara Empire spread across a boulder-strewn landscape.

🐯 Wildlife — Tigers, Elephants & Beyond. India is one of the world's premier wildlife destinations — home to the Bengal tiger, Asiatic elephant, one-horned rhinoceros, snow leopard, Indian leopard and hundreds of bird species. Ranthambore National Park in Rajasthan is India's most famous tiger reserve, offering jeep and canter safaris through ruined Mughal forts teeming with wildlife. Jim Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand is the country's oldest national park. Kaziranga in Assam protects two-thirds of the world's one-horned rhinoceros population. Kerala's Periyar reserve offers boat safaris on a lake surrounded by herds of elephants.