After centuries, India continues to mesmerize travellers with its wealth of landforms, people and cultures. It is a land of vibrant colour, sounds and scents to which the visitor can never be indifferent. It embraces an enormous variety of topography, from the snowy peaks of the Himalayas to the world's highest rainfalls in Assam, the burning plains of the Ganges River and the southern Dravidian hills and seacoasts. It is a country touched by every religion and every culture, each of whom have left their mark in a host of brilliant architecture as varied as the people who created them.

Indian cities reflect the blend of Mogul Muslim and Hindu civilizations as well as the grand vision of the emperors that built them, while its vast rural areas are as eternal as time itself. With so much India never bores the traveller, presenting a new face, a new sensation at each turn.