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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 […]

Most people give Agra a single day. They rush through the Taj Mahal, glance at the fort, and leave by evening — carrying photos but missing the city entirely. Three days is a different experience altogether. With three days in Agra, you don’t just see the monuments — you understand them. You watch the Taj […]

There is one question every Agra-bound traveller types into Google before anything else: How much does it cost to get into the Taj Mahal? It sounds simple. It isn’t. The Taj Mahal ticket system confuses thousands of visitors every month — not because it’s complicated, but because most of what’s written about it online is […]

The Honest Answer First If you could visit India in only one month of the year, most experienced India travellers would tell you to choose October or November. October is the gateway month. The monsoon is over. The skies clear. The national parks reopen on October 1 after months of closure. And India enters the […]

They call it the Princess of Hill Stations — and once you’ve stood on Coaker’s Walk watching the morning mist roll through the valleys 7,000 feet below, or cycled around the star-shaped lake as pine trees brush the silver sky, you’ll understand why Kodaikanal has held that title for over a century. Tucked into the […]

By Squid Travel India | Updated: July 2026 | 15 min read Written by the travel experts at Squid Travel India — a New Delhi-based tour operator with years of first-hand experience taking international visitors across India in every season, including the monsoon. TripAdvisor Travellers’ Choice Award, 2024–2025. Most travel guides tell you to avoid […]

You live in one of the world’s most connected cities. Dubai sits at the crossroads of East and West, with direct flights to virtually every major destination on the planet. And yet — for millions of UAE residents — the most meaningful journey they will ever take is the one that goes back. Back to […]

The Honest Answer First September in India is the month most travel guides get wrong. They tell you to avoid it because of the monsoon. What they do not tell you is that September is the month many experienced India travellers choose deliberately — lower prices, thinner crowds, dramatic green landscapes, and the knowledge that […]