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Pontiac Journeys · India

Go where the trail runs out.

Treks, rides, slow roads and old cities across India, planned by people who walked every route before asking anyone else to.

Why Pontiac exists

Somewhere past the last road,
India begins again.

There is an hour before sunrise when the ridge above the tea turns from black to blue. A lake beyond the pass holds the whole sky still. At the end of a jeep track a village is already awake, and someone is putting the kettle on.

Rajeev Lal and Titus PJ have spent most of their lives walking towards hours like that. Pontiac Journeys is how they share them. Since the 2000s we have walked, ridden or driven every route ourselves, and slept in its camps, long before taking anyone else along. So when you arrive, the hard part is already done. All that is left is to breathe, and look up.

Our story →
Dawn over a sea of cloud from Kolukkumalai, the tea estate above Munnar

Seven ways to travel

The biggest journeys
live in the smallest moments.

The atlas

India, from
Kanyakumari to Kashmir.

    Did you know

    India, in numbers
    that stay with you.

    The Pontiac Standard

    Care you can feel
    in the small things.

    Trekkers crossing the snow towards Kedarkantha, Uttarakhand A small group on the summit ridge of Kedarkantha A wooden cottage in the meadows at Jibhi, Himachal Pradesh A Rajasthani thali served at Narain Niwas Palace, Jaipur The road through Lahaul and Spiti, Himachal Pradesh Snow slopes below the Kedarkantha summit at first light

    A Pontiac leader on every departure.

    Every journey has a Pontiac trip leader, travelling with local guides from the region and, on treks, porters who look after camp and kitchen. Between them they know the trail, the weather and nearly everyone you'll meet.

    • A Pontiac trip leader on every departure
    • Local guides from the region
    • Porters for camp and kitchen on treks
    All nine commitments →

    Reviews

    Told by the people who were there.

    Words from people who have walked, ridden and stayed with us.

    Jagmandir palace lit at dusk on Lake Pichola, Udaipur
    Jagmandir, Lake Pichola · Udaipur

    Private & bespoke

    A journey that exists
    only for you.

    Your dates, your people, your pace. Take any journey privately, or begin with a blank page and a trip planner: a honeymoon on the water, a family's first trek, a milestone ride to 5,799 m.

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    Our itineraries on suggested dates, in small groups.
    Private
    Any journey, kept for your party alone, from two travellers.
    Bespoke
    Drawn from a blank page, around the place you have always wanted to stand.
    Dusk over the dunes outside Jaisalmer

    Begin

    Somewhere out there,
    a morning is waiting.

    Tell us where you'd like to wake up. A trip planner will write back personally, usually the same day, with ideas, dates and a price.