Neil & Marian, 60, visited in 2024 & 2025

Iain was able to support and advise us when we were planning trips within India. We are accustomed to being independent travellers, but had been daunted by the scale of the country and by the bewildering number of options for using public transport. We knew, however, that we did not want a group tour.

Having listened to our needs and taking account of our interests on Zoom calls in advance of our trip, Iain was able to suggest suitable destinations and, using his extensive knowledge of people and places in India, he was happy to organise safe and reliable routes and transport options for us.

We thoroughly enjoyed our trips to Hampi and to Panaji and loved the fact that we were able to combine the feeling of travelling independently with the knowledge that Iain had come up with suggestions which made the most of our time and allowed us to travel safely and cost-effectively. We also appreciated the fact that if any problems had arisen, we would have been able to contact him.

We would highly recommend Iain’s travel advice to others in our position. As he lives, works and has travelled extensively in India, he has a wide knowledge of the country and how things work from which to draw when making his suggestions.

I had a fantastic trip to India- very largely due to Iain's recommendations, planning and attention to detail. It was a complicated itinerary visiting Delhi, Ranthambore, Jaipur, Srinagar, Amritsar, Agra and Kolkata but the internal travel including train journeys ( an amazing experience !) all went smoothly.

I would never have attempted such an ambitious itinerary or done so many interesting things or stayed in such a variety of places- including a house boat- without Iain's input and recommendations based on personal experiences.

I will definitely ask him to help me again on any future visits.