After being recommended the tour by friends, my daughter and I were keen to do something similar ourselves and we did golden triangle along with tiger safaris at Ranthambore national park. Great initial communication outlining our plans before heading to Delhi. Warmly greeted by our driver & tour escort Abhishek who was with us for all 7 days, meeting at the airport was absolutely brilliant - a lovely man, as well our driver was great and both made us feel very safe. Our all local guides were always punctual and willing to have a chat throughout the different journey. All guides spoke very good English, would happily answer any questions we had and took photos whenever we asked. We requested 3 star accommodation and were impressed with all that we stayed in, great selection of hotel by owner Ravi. Highly recommend this company as a great way to see a great country - thank you to Ravi who organised everything for us.
This was the second time with Understanding India Tours - this time for a longer tour (2 weeks). Our Golden triangle and slum tour was superb. Everything was organised to perfection by founder ravi kumar - great choice of hotels, excellent driver, guide and an overall tour co-ordinator who was in regular contact to ensure that everything was going well. They are very flexible and will do all they can to organise the tour around your needs. They have lots of insight as to which hotels, which rooms and which attractions to see at which time. Highly recommended just book with them with helping community in the underprivileged area of delhi where founder lived all of his childhood.
Our friend recommended to do the tour with Understanding India Tours. Prior to the trip, Ravi was quick to communicate. We told him a general idea of where we wanted to go and he came back with a detailed itinerary of Delhi-Agra-Jaipur. He organized local guides in the towns who were very informative and another guide Deepak who was with us during entire tour and made our tour so easy to communicating local guides and available for us 24x7. We felt very safe with our driver and loved the ease of traveling around India without having to coordinate taxis, buses or trains. The WiFi connection in the car was a bonus! We highly recommend this company for your next trip! P.S. - All staffs are amazing in the company but ask Ravi if he can guide you himself. We got recommendations to visit Delhi-Agra-Jaipur with hime but he was unavailable during our visit.
Our guide Hema was incredibly friendly and knowledgeable of the community. Thank you! Recommended tour.
My husband and myself were planning for India trip and my brother recommended for Ravi to book the tour from him. We had a superb two week tour of Kerala - from Mumbai to Kochi to Munnar to Thekkady to Alleppey, Kumarakom, Marari Beach, Kochi and Delhi . We loved the friendly people, the wonderful food, fabulous scenery, wildlife, sounds of the jungle, spectacular tea plantations and an insight in to the daily lives of villagers and the backwaters. At beginning Ravi was really helpful and responsive in shaping the itinerary and checking in with us and he surprised us when he personally came to escort us for entire tour from Mumbai to Delhi. The hotels we stayed were the best, and a great finishing tour of slum tour in Delhi. We had very knowledgeable guides in all cities to provide the best local experience of their cities along with accompanied by Ravi. Our driver Krishna was fabulous with the roads and experts in Kerala. Thank you so much to Ravi and his all guides for making our time so memorable in India.