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Vacation in India : Highlights & Travel Tips

India is a destination of extraordinary scale and variety, where ancient traditions, dramatic landscapes, and vibrant daily life create an unforgettable travel experience. Travelers are drawn by its remarkable contrasts: Mughal monuments and sacred temples, Himalayan mountain towns and tropical backwaters, bustling mega-cities and quiet desert villages. From watching the sunrise over the Taj Mahal to exploring Jaipur’s palaces, cruising Kerala’s waterways, spotting wildlife in national parks, or joining festivals filled with color, music, and ritual, India offers a depth of culture and sensory richness that few places can match.

For first-time visitors, popular highlights include the Golden Triangle of Delhi, Agra, and Jaipur, as well as Varanasi for its spiritual atmosphere, Rajasthan for forts and desert heritage, Goa for beaches, and Kerala for nature and wellness retreats. Practical planning makes a big difference: distances are long, so it is best to focus on one region at a time; booking trains, flights, and major sights in advance can save time; and dressing modestly, carrying cash for smaller purchases, drinking filtered or bottled water, and allowing flexibility for crowds and traffic will help the trip go more smoothly. India can feel intense, but travelers who arrive with curiosity and patience are often rewarded with some of the world’s most memorable food, hospitality, and cultural experiences.

Best time to travel India

The best time to visit India is generally October to January, with October (0.22) and January (0.18) showing the strongest popularity and February (0.12) also remaining favorable. These months are typically preferred because the weather is cooler and more comfortable across many regions, making sightseeing, festivals, and longer journeys much easier than during the hotter pre-monsoon and rainy monsoon months.

Best travel reports from India

India - the South

First we went into the metropolis Mumbai. The South welcomed us with hot and humid weather. At the southern end of the city, magnificent English colonial buildings, such as the...

Rishikesh

Hi guys, If you ever travel to India, you have to do a yoga course. So we decided to do yoga and meditation at an ashram in Rishikesh for one week. The course started on...

Don Curry and the Palace Monkey

Day 7: From Ranthambore to Bharatpur

Don Curry among Tigers

Day 6: In the Ranthambore National Park

Don Curry gets into the Christmas spirit

Day 5: From Jaipur to Ranthambore

Day 7 to 10 Jaisalmer - Rajasthan

I had a pleasant night's sleep on the train, this time in the lower Sleeper Class, so only a lying place without air conditioning but with a cool draft. I was slightly chilly...

Night train in India

On Monday, we took the night train from Mumbai to Jabalpur. First, we traveled to the Mumbai train station. The station was very crowded. Everywhere, people were sitting and...

Food and Transport

Food In my host family, meals are served three times a day, and due to their Hindu beliefs, the diet is vegetarian. The host mother has two women who help her with cooking. One...

Red Fort and Old Delhi

Day 3 08.10.2024 My day starts today with a visit to the Lal Qila (The Red Fort). An impressive fortress complex from the 17th century. It was commissioned by Shah Jahan and...

Festival, Dances and Superstar.

Dance in Honor of Durga

Last stop in India, March-May 2024

Rajasthan - Haryana - Punjab - Himachal Pradesh - Uttarakhand

Goa/If

3.5.2024 Goa Today I was out and about with Debbie again. We had booked the "Goa Street Food Tour", which was supposed to start at 11 a.m. at the "Our Lady of Immaculate...

Back in Mumbai

There I was, sitting on the side of a main street somewhere in Mumbai, with a delicious spicy paneer shawarma in my hand and the homemade fries in front of me. Behind me the...

BLOG 14: Jodhpur - Highlight in Rajasthan (Part 1: Festung & Cenotaph)

Just arriving at our hotel – the Umaid Bhawan Palace is a highlight. We are welcomed with jagged Indian music (from the tape), a wreath of flowers and a canopy. The hotel is...

BLOG 3: Orchha

On the way from Gwalior to Kajuraho we make a stopover in ORCHHA: Orchha is a small village with only about 12,000 inhabitants in the Tikamgarh district of Madhya Pradesh....

Lazy Sunday after Astanga Yoga Class

I've just come back from a yoga class with Drishti. This time advanced Ashtanga yoga. I'm surprised at how well I can do the exercises, even though I haven't done yoga so...

New Delhi and the journey home

New Delhi The next morning I woke up from a dreamless but restful sleep. I had already been to Delhi twice before, so I didn't really know what the next two days would look...

Majuli Island - Assam - Northeast India

Majuli – Assam It's always amazing for me, even interesting, to learn about places that I've never heard of before. In the guest house of Bokakhat they often talked about this,...

Start in Guwahati - Assam

Off to India It should be said that it is a start into the unknown. After much back and forth, I made up my mind, it's back to India. One thing soon became clear, it should be...

Day 4 - 'No Problem'

05/01/2020 On Sunday, we had our second and last day at the Bangalore Prosthetic Camp. We took the bus and arrived at the camp around 9:45 AM. It started off very slowly. It...

Back to India 'Bhubaneswar - Khadigiri - Dhauli - Kornak - Puri'

I was once again standing on the footboard in the door of the overcrowded train from Galle to Colombo Fort. I stuck my head out to look in the direction of travel. Suddenly, I...

Udaipur - City of lakes

Three days we have been in Udaipur now, before we move on to Mumbai by sleeper bus. Three very relaxed days, except for the honking around us, which we can no longer bear -_- or...

Jaipur with Bhanu

Three days in Jaipur, a city that is much cleaner than any other we have seen before. This is because there is a waste management system here and anyone who does not follow it...

Sawai Madhopur

We like it here in Sawai Madhopur so much that we are staying for three nights. Many people (especially Germans and Indians) come to the hostel for just one night to take part...

Darjeeling

Hi guys, as you can read from the title we arrived in the famous area Darjeeling. There we spent our Last days in India. At the First day we drove with the Toy Train, which is...

Agra-Varanasi

Hi guys, After arriving in Agra, we first checked into the hostel to catch up on some much-needed sleep. Rested and full of energy, we decided to visit the Red Fort in Agra. The...