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There is no festival like Diwali. Not in India. Not anywhere on earth. On the night of November 8, 2026, one billion people will light lamps simultaneously. Every home, every temple, every street corner, every palace, every ordinary lane in every ordinary city will glow with diyas — small clay oil lamps whose individual flames, […]

India’s Most Iconic Journey — Closer Than You Think From the UAE, the Golden Triangle is one of the most accessible international trips you can take. Board a flight in Dubai, land in Delhi just 3.5 hours later, and step into a world of Mughal monuments, royal palaces, and the most famous building on earth. […]

Written by the travel experts at Squid Travel India — a New Delhi-based tour operator that has been taking international visitors to the Pushkar Camel Fair for years. TripAdvisor Travellers’ Choice Award, 2024–2025. Quick Reference: Pushkar Camel Fair 2026 Detail Information Expected dates 17–24 November 2026 Spiritual peak Kartik Purnima — 23–24 November 2026 Location […]

Written by the travel experts at Squid Travel India — a New Delhi-based tour operator that runs Taj Mahal tours year-round, in every season, including the monsoon. TripAdvisor Travellers’ Choice Award, 2024–2025. Quick Answer: Is August a Good Month to Visit the Taj Mahal? Factor August Rating Weather ☁️ Warm, humid, occasional rain showers Temperature […]

October is the month the Golden Triangle wakes up. After four months of heat, dust, and monsoon rains that keep most international travellers away, October arrives and transforms the entire circuit. The sky clears. The air cools. The post-monsoon green that has crept across the landscape gives everything a freshness and vividness that the dry […]

Most visitors arrive in Agra with a single image in mind: the Taj Mahal rising in white marble above the Yamuna River at dawn. And yes — the Taj Mahal is everything you have heard it is and more. It is genuinely one of the most moving, most beautiful things ever built by human hands, […]

By Vivek Sharma — Founder, Squid Travel India Updated July 2026 · TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice Award Winner 2024–25 Close your eyes and picture it. A mug of first-flush Darjeeling tea warming your hands. The morning mist rolling through valleys of deep green. And rising above it all — the snow-covered peak of Kanchenjunga, the world’s […]

By Vivek Sharma — Founder, Squid Travel India Updated July 2026 · 15+ years organising North India tours · TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice Award Winner 2024–25 North India is where India’s story is written most dramatically. The Himalayan peaks. The Mughal monuments. The Rajput palaces. The sacred rivers. The desert dunes. The colonial hill stations. And […]

Imagine waking up in a room where Maharajas once slept, with views across a silver lake at dawn. Imagine a candlelit dinner on a private terrace as a 16th-century fort glows gold in the distance. Imagine riding a camel into the Thar Desert at sunset, the dunes turning deep ochre and rose, with nothing ahead […]

Some journeys take you from one place to another. And then some journeys take you from one world to another entirely. Delhi to Spiti Valley is the second kind. You leave behind a city of 33 million people — traffic, heat, noise, the relentless pace of modern India — and you drive into one of […]