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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

By Squid Travel India | Updated: July 2026 | 16 min read Written by the travel experts at Squid Travel India — a New Delhi-based tour operator with years of first-hand experience guiding international visitors through India’s most iconic destinations. TripAdvisor Travellers’ Choice Award, 2024–2025. The classic Golden Triangle — Delhi, Agra, Jaipur — is […]

Let’s be honest with you from the very first line: Delhi is intense. It’s loud, crowded, chaotic in places, and utterly unlike anything most first-time visitors have experienced. It’s also one of the most rewarding cities in the world to explore — a place where 1,000-year-old tombs sit quietly beside busy highways, where the smell […]

Here’s something most first-time safari planners don’t realize: seeing a tiger in the wild isn’t really a matter of luck. It’s a matter of timing. A tiger sighting in any Indian national park is earned, not given — and tiger movement through the forest follows a fairly predictable rhythm driven by three things: water, food, […]