The Gallery

India tour photos, straight from the road

These are real photographs from recent private journeys through northern India — the marigold welcome at Delhi and Jaipur airports, the chauffeured fleet that carries each group between cities, and the forts, palaces and havelis those roads lead to.

No stock and no staging: our guests, our guides, and the places as they were on the day. It is the plainest picture we can give you of what a Lux India Tours trip actually looks like.

41 photographs/4 chapters/Delhi · Agra · Jaipur · Rajasthan

arrivals · garlands · meet and greet

The Welcome

Every journey begins the same way. A name board held up in the arrivals hall. A rope of marigold and rose over the shoulders. Luggage lifted before it is asked for. These are the first minutes on Indian soil, mostly at Delhi and Jaipur airports, with the guide and chauffeur who stay with the group for the rest of the road.

A guide handing a bouquet to two guests in fresh flower garlands outside the airport terminal — 01Garland welcome, outside the terminal

A guide presenting a bouquet to a woman guest while an older man beside her wears a garland, inside the arrivals hall — 02Bouquet and garland, arrivals hall in Delhi

Two guests in yellow marigold garlands with their driver in the airport car park — 03Garlands in the arrivals car park

A guide with two women guests in garlands beside a loaded luggage trolley at Jaipur airport — 04Trolleys and garlands, Jaipur airport

A guide and a couple in garlands posing for a photo at the arrivals kerb — 05The first photo of the trip

Three people standing in a gilded, fresco-painted drawing room of a heritage haveli — 06The haveli drawing room, checking in at Jaipur

Guests and their guide with marigold garlands and luggage after a late-evening landing — 07A late landing, garlands under the canopy

A guide greeting a garlanded guest with a warm handshake on the terminal forecourt — 08A warm hello on the forecourt

A guide with a male guest wearing a large marigold garland in the airport baggage area — 09Garlanded and ready, the arrivals hall

A couple in red rose garlands waiting for their transfer, the fleet cars lined up behind — 10Transfer waiting, the fleet lined up behind

A young couple in garlands beside a white SUV at night, the boot open for their bags — 11A night pickup, garlands by the car

A group of four guests, all in marigold garlands, in a car park at night — 12The whole party, marigold all round

A guide in a maroon jacket with a couple in garlands in the arrivals car park — 13Meet and greet, arrivals car park

An older couple in marigold garlands welcomed by their guide on the lower-ground pickup level — 14Welcomed in, the lower-ground pickup

An older couple holding a name board reading David and Jennifer, with their guide at arrivals — 15The name board, meeting David and Jennifer

A guest and guide in garlands at the terminal, the guest's suitcase beside them — 16A garlanded arrival at the terminal, Delhi

the fleet · chauffeurs · the drive

On the Road

Between the sights is the car, and it matters. The fleet runs to private Toyota sedans and SUVs for couples, and air-conditioned Force Urbania and tempo traveller coaches for families and small groups. Each one is kept clean, garlanded on the first morning, and driven by a chauffeur who knows the routes between Delhi, Agra, Jaipur and beyond.

A white Force Urbania coach with a marigold garland across its grille on the first morning — 17First morning, the coach garlanded

A white Mahindra SUV parked and ready for the group — 18The private SUV, ready for the group

The leather interior of the touring SUV, the gear console in the foreground — 19Inside, on the drive to the next city

A white air-conditioned tempo traveller coach parked under trees, waiting — 20The coach, parked and waiting

The rear of a white Force Urbania coach in a covered car park, doors open for loading — 21Loading up on a departure morning

A white Toyota Hilux pickup on a city street, used to carry the group's luggage — 22A pickup for the luggage, city run

A white Force Urbania coach on a dusty open road between towns — 23On a country road, between forts

A chauffeur and his guest, both garlanded, standing beside the coach before setting off — 24The chauffeur and his guest, before the drive

A driver and a guest standing beside a garlanded white coach — 25Driver and guest, beside the coach

A white Mahindra SUV pulled up kerbside at a hotel gate — 26Kerbside, the SUV at the hotel gate

A white coach rolling out at first light with its headlights on — 27Rolling out at first light

Amber · Agra · Chittorgarh · Jaipur

Forts, Palaces and Havelis

This is what the road is for. The ceremonial elephant climb to Amber Fort. The courtyards of Agra. The lake palace and the pink facade of Jaipur. A Mughal monument in Old Delhi at last light. Some frames are our guests; others are simply the places, shot on the same journeys.

Two guests riding a caparisoned elephant with its mahout on the ceremonial climb to Amber Fort — 28Amber Fort, the ceremonial elephant climb

A group of guests posing together in a red-sandstone fort courtyard in Agra — 29Agra, the group in the fort courtyard

A couple in red garlands with their guide arriving by SUV at the gate of a Rajasthan palace hotel — 30Arrival at the palace gate, Rajasthan

Three guests photographed at dusk in front of a domed Mughal monument in Old Delhi — 31Evening at the monument, Old Delhi

The honeycomb pink-sandstone facade of the Hawa Mahal in Jaipur — 32Hawa Mahal, Jaipur

The Jal Mahal water palace sitting mid-lake in Jaipur under a pink dusk sky — 33Jal Mahal, the lake palace at dusk

The Indo-Saracenic Albert Hall Museum in Jaipur with pigeons wheeling overhead — 34Albert Hall, Jaipur

An aerial view of a heritage hotel's pool terrace set among clipped gardens — 35The pool terrace, a heritage hotel

guides · planning · the hotel lobby

In Good Company

The part that does not photograph as easily. The itinerary talked through over a map. The check-in handled while guests sit down. The evening the guide joins the table. Small groups, private arrangements, and the same faces from the airport to the departure gate.

Three men seated at an outdoor table talking through a printed itinerary and map — 36Talking through the route, over the map

A guest holding trip documents in a hotel lobby with two staff members — 37Check-in handled, hotel lobby

Four guests and a team member together against a marble wall before dinner — 38Guests and team, before dinner

Three men on a rooftop cafe in the evening, the guide among them — 39A rooftop evening, the guide joins in

A group of guests and staff standing together in a lit heritage-hotel courtyard at night — 40The group in the evening, a heritage hotel

A guide and three guests photographed outside a lit monument on one of the last evenings — 41Still together, the last evenings

A private itinerary being sketched out by hand

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