YPT are pleased are pleased to announce our full range of independent and bespoke tours to India. The following are some of our more well known packages, but feel free to get in touch if you wish to do something that is not listed.
YPT Sikkim Tours
Sikkim was the first destination in India that Young Pioneer Tours offered and through our expertise, as well as using the best local partners, we offer unparalleled access here. We currently offer group and bespoke Sikkim Tours throughout the year, which you can see on our dedicated page.
YPT Assam and Sillong Tours
We run hard frontier tours through Assam and Shillong, mixing jungle national parks, tribal hill towns, and raw borderland politics. Expect rhinos in Kaziranga National Park, waterfalls and cloud forests around Cherrapunji, Khasi minority culture, tea estates, and backroad drives toward Bangladesh and Bhutan.
North-East India Frontier Tours
North East India Frontier Tours is about getting properly off the map, into places like Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Manipur, where mountains replace malls and tribal culture still actually exists. We cover jungle roads, forgotten border towns, living with ethnic minorities, and unpacking the region’s insurgent past and uneasy politics. Think raw landscapes, village homestays, frontier history and zero tourist infrastructure.
Jammu And Kashmir Tours
We run ground level trips through Jammu and Kashmir, combining conflict zone politics with Himalayan scenery and old school Kashmiri culture. Expect houseboats on Dal Lake, backstreets of Srinagar, mountain drives to Gulmarg, and visits near the Line of Control with Pakistan. We cover shrines, markets, army checkpoints, and villages most tourists never reach. This is India’s most sensitive region done properly: border politics, Muslim heritage, alpine landscapes, and raw street level reality, guided by our expert team.
India by Rail Tours
No one quite does trains like India, and no one quite does budget conscious train tours like Young Pioneer Tours. From our signature India By Railway Tour, to bespoke Indian train packages throughout the country, we can design the perfect itinerary for you. And if that were not enough, we can even make your Indian Railway tour transnational by coming with our train offerings in neighboring Sri Lanka, Nepal and even China.
Indian Food Tours
Tell us what you want to eat and we build the trip around it. That can mean Mughlai food in Agra, market eating in Jaipur and Jodhpur, Rajasthani thalis in Udaipur or street food crawls in Mumbai. Regional dishes, local sweets, backstreet snacks and proper restaurants, all picked to match your tastes.Every tour is custom made to fit your exact requirements and indeed fear level. Our foodie tours to India use the best local guides, as well us even being able to offer our very own resident Street Food Guy as an expert leader.
Festival tours to India
India is known for its famous and vibrant festivals, where streets, temples, and homes come alive with color, lights, music, and traditional rituals. These celebrations offer a unique chance to taste local foods, witness cultural ceremonies, and experience the spirit and diversity of India’s traditions. These include, Holi, Diwali, Pongal, as well as many of the more surreal celebrations offered within the the country.
Tribal India
India still has tribal regions that mass tourism barely reaches. We take you deep into Nagaland for village stays and festival season, then push on to remote forest communities in Odisha and Chhattisgarh. Expect long road days, basic homestays, local rice beer, village rituals, and straight talking with people who live by their own rules. This is not polished eco travel. This is frontier India: hills, jungle tracks, dust, smoke fires, and communities that do not perform for outsiders. You walk it, eat it, drink it, and sleep locally, seeing how life actually works in parts of the country most foreigners fear to tread.
The Golden triangle
Visit the three most famous sites in northwest India: Delhi, Agra, and Jaipur, India’s iconic travel route, the Golden Triangle. This is perfect if you want to cover some of the well-known landmarks, such as the Taj Mahal, Red Fort, Qutub Minar, Amber Fort, and the palaces in Rajasthan.
This route can be done by either road or by India’s railway system and is easily adjustable to fit both short and fast-paced trips, as well as longer and more in-depth journeys.
Nepal and India Tours
YPT offer a full range of group and independent travel packages to Nepal, easily combined with overland routes through India via Darjeeling and Sikkim. From there we push deeper into the northeast and central tribal belt, covering Nagaland, Odisha and Chhattisgarh. Expect long drives, basic homestays, village festivals, forest trekking, and plenty of time spent drinking with locals. This is proper frontier travel: remote communities, rough roads, minimal tourism, and access to parts of India most foreigners never reach. YPT can also arrange tours specifically based around the Maoist past of Nepal and the Indian borderlands.
Bhutan And India/Sikkim Tours
YPT can arrange Sikkim and Bhutan Tours that cross the land border with India and Bhutan. These can further be combined with Nepal as part of a “Himalayan Kingdoms” tour, with us able to arrange, or advise on all visa and land crossing formalities.
Sri Lanka and India Tours
Young Pioneer Tours offer group and bespoke train tours in Sri Lanka, which can be combined with our regular and train tours in India. These can be planned to fit your needs and requirements, and tailored to utilize the ferry between India and Sri Lanka.
Naxalite Tours/Maoist Tours of India
One of the world’s longest running insurgencies, India’s Naxalite Maoist conflict has shaped entire regions for decades. With Young Pioneer Tours, we arrange travel into parts of India once under Maoist control, visiting former red zones, meeting ex commanders, local officials, villagers and civilians caught on both sides of the struggle. These are tailor made and can worked around academic, journalistic, or purely interest based programs.
Kerala Tours
Mix and match destinations within Kerala, combining tea-covered hill stations, jungle reserves, backwaters, beaches and colonial history. Travel through historic port towns and into the Western Ghats, with scenic drives past waterfalls into the highlands and lush plantation landscapes. Experience tea gardens and mountain viewpoints in Munnar, spice plantations and wildlife boat safaris in Thekkady, and the calm backwaters of Alleppey by houseboat or shikara. Along the coast, Kovalam offers relaxed beaches, while Trivandrum adds temples, museums and cultural sites.
These bespoke tours can easily be combined with Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Sri Lanka, or wider India by rail programs. Get in touch to design your perfect tour through Kerala!
Tamil Nadu Tours
Explore the deep south of India through temple cities, pilgrimage routes, coastal landscapes and dramatic southern tip viewpoints on our Tamil Nadu bespoke tours. This region is known for ancient Dravidian temples, busy cultural centres, fishing towns and scenic coastal drives.
Highlights include major temple architecture, sacred pilgrimage sites, island viewpoints and ferry or boat experiences along the coast, as well as sunrise and sunset locations at India’s southernmost edges.
These bespoke tours can easily be combined with Kerala, Karnataka, Sri Lanka, or wider India by rail programs. Get in touch to design your perfect Southern India itinerary.
Karnataka Tours
Explore southern India through a mix of royal history, hill stations and plantation regions. This state blends grand former kingdoms, mountain scenery and cooler highland escapes.
Experience historic palaces and cultural centres, then travel into the Western Ghats for scenic viewpoints, forested hills and tea and coffee growing regions. The journey offers a mix of heritage cities, relaxed mountain towns and panoramic landscapes.
These bespoke tours can easily be combined with Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Goa, or wider India by rail programs. Get in touch to design your perfect Southern India itinerary.
School Trips to India
Young Pioneer Tours have a long history of arranging school trips to slightly off the wall places, with us now proud to also offer India. Our school trips to India are offered to students from High school up to university level. These are offered throughout India and are tailored to your curricular needs, with safety being of paramount importance.
