The Key to an Unlimited Adventures lies within !! Shikhar Travels


Our Strength and Experience

Started as a small company in 1979 by seasoned mountaineer Capt. Swadesh Kumar, Shikhar has grown steadily over the years to one of the largest adventure tour operator of India. Today Shikhar Travel has become a brand name in itself among travelers from all over world looking for adventure in Indian subcontinent. With efforts from its young, dedicated and enthusiastic team, Shikhar explored unknown and undiscovered areas, opened new vistas and experimented with variations to specialize in vast range of adventure activities covering almost all aspects of adventure tours. As India’s leading specialist in the field, we now offer the most diverse range of trips to cover almost all adventure sports.

Our strength lies in providing comfortable journey in the most difficult terrain while adhering to all safety and environment friendly norms. To ensure that travellers enjoy thrill of adventure, we provide hygienically cooked food and international standard camping equipment like Sleeping tents, mattresses, dining tent toilets etc. We do recommend that the clients should bring their own sleeping bags along with their other personal clothing.

Our valued customers

Its matter of pride for Shikhar Travels that some of the world renowned explorers like Sir Edmund Hillary, Mr. Rhenold Messner, Ms Junko Tabei, Capt. M. S. Kohli, Mr. Y Shirakawa have put their trust in our expertise whenever they had chance to visit India. The list of these famous explorers are unending. Apart from handling treks and expeditiones for TV Channel's like Discovery and Sony, we have handled expeditions, treks and safari on behalf of clubs and association around the world.

Who goes with you

All our tours are led by higly experienced Trip Managers from Shikhar Travels and we have uncompromisingly high expectations from them. Our dedicated team of Mountain Guides are well educated and fully trained in their respective areas of work. They have undergone extensive training in mountaineering, first-aid, rescue and scaled peaks in Himalayas. With their wealth of first hand experience and knowledge, they strive to make your each journey a memorable experience. Not only showing monuments and places to take photos, they take care of you in every step and assist you in interacting with the local inhabitants of the area you visit. They are well trained to handle the contingencies (if any) due to unforeseen circumstances.

Food & kitchen crew

Our forte is the food we provide to our clients during camping. We feel very proud that all our clients, irrespective of their nationality and religion, have thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated the hygienic and delicious food provided by our cooks. Traveling with tourists from various countries, our kitchen staff have developed expertise in preparing all kind of food be it ethnic Indian food, Chinese or continental. We ensure that our valued customers gets freshly prepared and hot meals during treks and safari. Our cooks are fully trained and very well experienced to look after the different tastes of our clients. Its made sure that the water used for cooking and drinking is boiled and purified and very safe to drink.

Trekking

We have offered a number of trekking programs in our brochure in the various parts of Indian Himalayas, from Ladakh to Arunachal and Nagaland We have tried our best to see that all important trekking routes are covered in these programs. Every year we keep adding new destinations, new concepts, new combination to make the product more and more interesting.

Safaris and other programs

Apart from overland Jeep Safaris in different part of the Himalayas and desert region, you also have an opportunity to do sailing, bicycling, wildlife and many other adventure tours.

Cultural Experience

We make all efforts to see that you have an opportunity to interact with the local people, visit their houses and to experience their culture and traditions in their homeland. Whenever possible we organize cultural programs in the evening where you will have an opportunity to enjoy and participate in folk dance and music. You can also teach the local people one of your own regional games and share your experiences.

Branch offices

We have our own branch offices at Uttarkashi and Joshimath which are main center for expeditions in Garhwal Himalayas. Also we have our associate offices throughout India.

Insurance

For your protection from uncertainty , we highly recommend that traveler should cover themselves for trip cancellation insurance. Insurance can provide extra protection if you have unexpected expenses through accident, illness, loss of luggage, canceled or interrupted flight due to unavoidable reason. We also recommend the insurance to be taken from your country of resident since it is not possible to cover you under insurance in India as per the insurance rules.

Value for Money

In association with our various branch & associate offices throughout the area of operation, we are constantly looking for the best facilities, hotel prices that can consolidate into competitive holiday value. Your holiday means a great deal to you, and it means a lot to us to give you a good deal. Please let us quote you without obligation.