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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

If you could visit India in only one month of the year, most experienced India travellers would tell you to choose October. The monsoon is over. The skies are clear. The temperatures are dropping toward the perfect range for sightseeing. The national parks are reopening after months of closure. And India is in full festival […]