India cruises
Leave the challenges of land-based Indian travel behind by taking to India’s waterways. Observe an ever-changing colourful scene of enchanting rural landscapes and bustling towns, revealing a fascinating side few visitors have the chance to experience.
The slow moving rivers of India were once the arterial life lines of the sub-continent, but with motorised transportation their usefulness diminished. Now, once again, they are coming into their own.
Travel by small, comfortable expeditionary boat along India’s Brahmuputra, Ganges and Hugli Rivers, passing great cities, world-famous wildlife sanctuaries and historical monuments, and into the heart of rural India.
In the early light of morning, the lure of rural India is revealed as the fragile mist lifts from the river. Farmers bringing their water buffalo to drink and wallow; the daily rituals of bathing on temple steps, a splash of colour as a sari clad woman makes her way back to her village, a brass pot effortlessly balanced on her head.
The noise of children as they make their way to school along the river bank, kingfishers darting into the waters, the chanced sighting of a one horned rhino from elephant back.
An Indian river journey allows the traveller to slowly absorb the sights and everyday life that is just not possible by any other means of travel.