North India Tour Packages

North India Tour Packages: Heritage Cities, Hill Stations, and Wildlife

North India covers more ground, climate, and contrast than most first-time visitors expect: desert palaces, Himalayan hill towns, Sikh and Hindu pilgrimage sites, and tiger reserves all within driving distance of Delhi. Driver India Private Tours has been building north india tour packages since 2013, each with a private vehicle and driver rather than a fixed-group bus schedule. Below are six routes that cover the different things travelers actually come north India for.

Perfect North India Tour: the classic circuit, extended

Our Perfect North India Tour (10 days) runs Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, Amritsar, and Varanasi, essentially the Golden Triangle with two genuinely different additions on either end: Amritsar's Golden Temple, where the langar (community kitchen) feeds tens of thousands of visitors a day regardless of faith, and Varanasi's ghats, where the evening Ganga Aarti ceremony is the part most travelers remember longest.

Picture Perfect India Tour: hill stations and wildlife near Delhi

Our Picture Perfect India Tour (12 days) skips the heritage circuit entirely in favour of Rishikesh, Mussoorie, Jim Corbett National Park, and Nainital. Rishikesh is where the Ganges leaves the mountains, with rafting and riverside ashrams; Corbett is India's oldest national park and a real shot at a tiger sighting; Nainital and Mussoorie are colonial-era hill stations built around lakes and ridge-line views. This is the route for travelers who've already done Delhi-Agra-Jaipur, or simply want mountains over monuments.

Best of Himachal Tour: deeper into the mountains

Our Best of Himachal Tour (13 days) goes further into the hills than the previous route: Shimla, Manali, Dharamshala, McLeod Ganj, Dalhousie, and Khajjiar, with Chandigarh as the gateway in and out. McLeod Ganj is home to the Dalai Lama's residence and a sizeable Tibetan refugee community, a genuinely different cultural texture from the Hindu and Sikh sites elsewhere on this page. Khajjiar gets marketed as "mini Switzerland," which oversells it, but the meadow-and-pine-forest setting is real and worth the stop.

Cultural North India Tour: the long heritage route

Our Cultural North India Tour (19 days) is the deepest heritage circuit we run: Delhi, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Udaipur, and Jaipur through Rajasthan, then Agra, Khajuraho, and Varanasi. Adding Khajuraho's temple carvings to the standard Rajasthan-and-Golden-Triangle route is what sets this apart from our shorter circuits, a genuinely different architectural style from anything else on this itinerary.

Discover Himalayas with Golden Temple: Amritsar plus the hills

Our Discover Himalayas with Golden Temple route (15 days) pairs Amritsar with Dharamshala, Manali, Shimla, and Rishikesh, then finishes with Corbett before returning to Delhi. It's the route for travelers who want both the Golden Temple and a proper hill-station stretch in the same trip, rather than choosing one over the other.

Wildlife and Heritage India Tour: tigers between the monuments

Our Wildlife and Heritage India Tour (13 days) alternates safari days with sightseeing: Jim Corbett, then Agra and Bharatpur, then Ranthambore and Sariska before returning to Delhi via Jaipur. Bharatpur's Keoladeo National Park is a bird sanctuary rather than a tiger reserve, a different kind of wildlife stop that's easy to miss if you're not specifically looking for it.

Visiting the Golden Temple

The Golden Temple, or Harmandir Sahib, is open around the clock, and the langar runs continuously, anyone can sit down and eat for free regardless of religion, nationality, or background. A head covering is required for everyone inside the complex (scarves are available at the entrance if you don't bring your own), shoes come off before the marble walkway, and the pool surrounding the temple is for ritual bathing, not swimming or wading for photos. Early morning, before the heat and crowds build, tends to be the most atmospheric time to visit, and several of our routes schedule it that way deliberately rather than as a late-afternoon stop.

Choosing between heritage, hills, and wildlife

Most of the decision comes down to how much of each you actually want. If monuments are the priority, the Perfect North India or Cultural North India routes cover that most directly. If you'd rather spend most of your trip outdoors, the Himachal or Picture Perfect routes lean that way. If wildlife sightings matter as much as sightseeing, the Wildlife and Heritage route is built specifically around that balance. None of these are fixed menus, if you want Amritsar added to the Himachal route, or Khajuraho dropped from the Cultural tour, tell us and we'll adjust.

Why a private driver matters across these regions:

A private driver matters differently depending on which of these six routes you pick. On the heritage circuits, it means skipping a fixed group's pace through Agra or Jaipur and stopping where you actually want to. On the Himalayan routes, it means a driver who already knows the specific mountain roads rather than someone navigating switchbacks for the first time alongside you. Our car rental service pairs the right vehicle to the route too, a smaller car makes sense for hill roads, while the desert highways of Rajasthan suit a larger, more comfortable vehicle for longer single-day distances.

How much driving these routes actually involve

How much driving these routes actually involve

North India's distances are bigger than they look on a map. Delhi to Amritsar is roughly 450 kilometres, about 8 hours by road, which is why several of our longer itineraries route this leg by overnight train or short flight instead of a full day in the car. Within Rajasthan, city-to-city legs (Jaipur to Jodhpur, Jodhpur to Udaipur) run 4 to 6 hours each, manageable but worth building rest stops into rather than treating as a straight transfer. The Himalayan routes are the slowest per kilometre, mountain roads switch back constantly, so a distance that looks short on a map can still take half a day. A MUV/SUV Car tends to suit the hill roads better, while the desert highways of Rajasthan are comfortable in something smaller or bigger built for single-day stretches, and our drivers switch vehicle type accordingly rather than running the same car across every region. We plan realistic daily distances into every itinerary rather than the shortest theoretical line between two points.

What changes by region

Rajasthan and the Golden Triangle stay warm and dry for most of the cooler months, which is why October through March suits most of this page's heritage-focused routes. The Himalayan stretches (Himachal, Rishikesh, Dharamshala) run on a different calendar: March through June and September through November avoid both winter snow closures and the monsoon. If your itinerary mixes both, like Discover Himalayas with Golden Temple does, we'll sequence the route so you're not arriving in the hills during a closure window.

Let us know today which of these six routes is closest to what you're picturing, or describe your own mix of heritage, hills, and wildlife, along with your travel dates. We'll reply with a detailed itinerary and quote within a day.