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.
