✦The atlas
We could list forty places. We list eight, because those are the ones where we have a guide on speed dial, a driver who knows which gate opens first, and a hotel manager who will take a call at eleven at night.
Everything below is sold by us and run by people we have travelled with. Pick a city, or read down the page until one of them sounds like your kind of week.
Omeega planning desk · 6 regions
North India 28.61° N 77.21° E
Where seven cities sit on top of each other
Delhi rewards the slow traveller. Mughal courtyards give way to colonial avenues, and a five-minute walk can take you across four centuries. Our Delhi journeys pair a licensed guide with a private car so you spend the day looking, not navigating.
West India 19.08° N 72.88° E
A harbour city that never quite exhales
Art-deco seafronts, Koli fishing villages, island caves and the busiest dabbawala network on earth. Mumbai is best understood on foot and on the water — and we plan both.
Rajasthan 26.91° N 75.79° E
The pink city, block-printed and gilded
A planned city from 1727 that still runs on its original grid. Amber Fort at opening hour, the observatory at noon, and a block-printing workshop in the afternoon.
West Coast 15.30° N 74.12° E
Portuguese shorelines and jungle waterfalls
Beyond the beach shacks there are 450-year-old churches, spice plantations and the Dudhsagar falls in full monsoon roar. We plan Goa for people who want both halves.
Uttar Pradesh 27.18° N 78.01° E
More than one wonder, if you stay the night
Everybody comes for sunrise at the Taj. Stay a day longer and you get Agra Fort at golden hour, the Baby Taj in near silence, and Fatehpur Sikri without a crowd.
Rajasthan 24.59° N 73.71° E
A lake city built for the golden hour
Seven lakes, a palace that runs a kilometre along the water, and ghats that fill with music at dusk. Udaipur is the slowest city in Rajasthan, in the best way.
Thar Desert 26.92° N 70.91° E
The living fort and the dunes behind it
One of the last inhabited forts in the world, carved sandstone havelis, and a desert that turns molten at sunset. Camp out — the sky is the attraction.
Rajasthan 26.24° N 73.02° E
Indigo lanes under a cliff-top fort
Mehrangarh looms 125 metres above a sea of blue houses. Below it, spice markets, stepwells and the Bishnoi villages that have protected their trees for 500 years.
✦Can't decide?
Delhi and Jaipur if it is your first trip. Udaipur and Jodhpur if it is your second. Goa on its own, in January, if what you actually want is to stop moving.
