India Festival
Tour Packages

Durga Puja 2027 falls on 5–10 October, with Mahalaya on 30 September (provisional until the Bengali almanacs are published). We publish twelve packages for the festival. Kolkata hotels for that week sell out well in advance and reprice sharply as the date approaches, so the earliest enquiries get the widest choice — contact us and we will tell you honestly what is open.

The festival calendar is a reference: every major Indian festival, month by month, with 2026 dates and the regions each one belongs to. It answers when something falls. This page is the commercial counterpart — the bookable journeys we run around those festivals, with what is included and how each is planned. Most travellers use the calendar to choose a date and this page to choose a trip.

Durga Puja in Kolkata and the Pushkar Camel Fair are the two easiest first festivals: both are visually extraordinary, both are comfortable to attend with good planning, and both pair naturally with a wider journey. Holi is wonderful but physically boisterous, and the Kumbh Mela is an enormous undertaking better attempted once you know India a little.

Six to nine months for the major festivals. Hotel inventory in the host city is finite, the strongest properties go first, and what remains climbs steeply in price. For less-attended regional festivals, three to four months is usually comfortable.

Yes, for most of them. Indian festivals largely follow lunar calendars, so the Gregorian date moves annually and is sometimes confirmed only a few months ahead. Our festival calendar carries the fixed 2026 dates, and we build itineraries around the observance rather than a provisional date.

Major festivals draw very large crowds, which is part of what makes them worth attending. Planning is what makes them comfortable: accommodation within walking distance, transfers timed away from processions, arranged vantage points, and a guide with you throughout. We brief you in advance on dress, conduct and how to handle the busiest hours.

Our 23 published festival journeys start at USD 396₹38,000EUR 349GBP 299 per person and run to USD 885₹85,000EUR 781GBP 669. Prices are higher on the festival nights themselves than on the same route a week later, because hotels price the dates.

Three to six months for the big festivals — Durga Puja, Diwali, Holi, Pushkar and Hornbill. Rooms close to the action sell out first, and those are the rooms worth having.

No. Most Hindu festivals follow the lunar calendar and move by two to three weeks from year to year. We confirm the dates against the panchang each year before we publish a departure.

Yes, with local handling. Crowds are the real consideration, not safety as such — which is why our festival itineraries hold viewing positions, avoid the busiest roads on the peak nights and keep a named person on WhatsApp with you.

4 nights. The longest is 7 nights.

Where the calendar allows. Durga Puja and Diwali fall three weeks apart in autumn, and Pushkar and Dev Deepawali both fall on Kartik Purnima — so some combinations work and some are physically impossible.

Every one can. Some also run as small-group departures on the festival dates; the rest are private on your own dates.