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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 […]

India has been on British travellers’ bucket lists for generations. The shared history, the English language, the cricket, the cuisine — there is a familiarity to India that makes it feel both exotic and approachable in equal measure. And no India holiday captures that feeling more perfectly than the Golden Triangle. Delhi, Agra, and Jaipur. […]

It’s the first question every American asks before booking India — and the one that gets the vaguest answers online. So here it is, plainly: a complete 10-day trip to India from the USA costs between $2,500 and $5,000 per person all-in, including international flights, for most travelers. Budget travelers can do it for less. […]

By Vivek Sharma — Founder, Squid Travel India Updated July 2026 · 15+ years organising India tours for American travelers · TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice Award Winner 2024–25 You Googled “India travel advisory” and now you’re staring at a government page that says “Exercise Increased Caution” — and you’re wondering whether your India trip is a […]

The Honest Answer First Most travel guides tell you to avoid India in August. They are not entirely wrong. August is monsoon season. It is hot. It is humid. Some roads close. Some parks shut. The rain is real. But here is what those guides miss. August is also when India is at its greenest, […]

Let’s start with the question exactly as Americans type it into Google: Is India safe? The honest answer — the one that neither the overly cautious government advisory nor the rose-tinted travel brochure will give you — is this: Yes. India is safe for American tourists in 2026. Hundreds of thousands of Americans visit India […]

By Vivek Sharma — Founder, Squid Travel India Updated June 2026 · 15+ years planning India tours for American travelers · TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice Award Winner 2024–25 You’ve been thinking about India for years. Maybe it started with a documentary about the Taj Mahal. Maybe a colleague came back from Jaipur and couldn’t stop talking […]