India

India does not do moderation, and that is the gift. Within one journey you can watch dawn gild the Taj Mahal, drift on Udaipur's lake past marble palaces, ride a camel into the Thar desert, and stand in a Varanasi twilight while a thousand oil lamps float down the Ganges. Rajasthan alone could fill a month: forts the size of towns, palace hotels where you sleep in actual history, markets that recalibrate your sense of colour. Then there is the other India: Kerala's slow green backwaters by houseboat, tiger safaris in Ranthambore, the Himalayan foothills wrapped in tea. We stitch it together with the right guides and the right pauses, because India rewards pacing. It will overwhelm you a little. That is precisely the point.