Signature Trips
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You bring a backpack.
You'll know the group
A WhatsApp group opens ten days out. Nobody arrives to a bus full of strangers.
Captains, not guides
Full-time Backpacker Tours staff who have run the same route dozens of times.
The price is the price
Stay, transfers and listed meals are in. What's excluded is printed on every page.
Altitude taken seriously
Oxygen cylinders, oximeters and a rest day built into every high-altitude route.
Upcoming departures
Dates that are already running. Pick a batch, pay 25%, and you're on it.
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Guaranteed
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Fast filling
Snow trek
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Passport trip
Every trip runs a little differently
Same captains, same standards — the format changes to fit who's travelling.
Group Tours
Fixed departures, capped group sizes, and a WhatsApp group before you even meet.
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Private Tours
Your own dates, your own vehicle, your own pace — same route, just yours alone.
Plan a private trip
Backpacker Signature Tour
Our flagship routes — the ones we're proudest of, run exactly the way we'd do them ourselves.
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Honeymoon for Couples
Quieter stays, better tables and an itinerary built for two, not twenty-two.
Plan your honeymoonEvery Indian state we run
Each one has its own page with packages, group departures and what's actually worth seeing.
Trips that need a visa
Six countries we run fixed departures to, with the paperwork handled before you fly.

Nine years, 41,000 travellers, one rule: no batch runs without a captain who has run it before.
We are not the cheapest operator on the internet, and we don't try to be. What you're paying for is the person leading your batch, the vehicle you're sitting in, and someone answering the phone at 2am when the pass shuts.
Talk to a trip expertRated 4.9 on Google
From real travellers, over the last 10 years — not a launch-week rating.
Buses that aren't overcrowded
We don't max out seats to shave the price. Fewer people, more room, better trip.
Trusted vendors, 24x7 support
Transporters we've worked with for years, backed by round-the-clock on-call assistance from the office team.
Honest itineraries
Carefully built for the experience — no intention to oversell overhyped places just for the photo.
100% operated by us
We never hand your trip to a third party after booking. That's how the cost stays affordable.
Reviews

Did the Umling La batch in June. Our captain Tenzin rerouted us around a landslide near Hanle without any drama and we still made it for sunset. The oxygen check every evening sounded excessive until two people in our group actually needed it. Worth every rupee.

Solo female traveller, first group trip, and I was nervous about it. The WhatsApp group before departure made a huge difference — by day one I already knew who I was travelling with. Homestays in Spiti were basic but spotless.

Kedarkantha in late December, minus nine at the campsite, and the tents held up fine. Rented the jacket and gaiters from them instead of buying — saved me about eight thousand rupees for one trek.

Meghalaya in peak monsoon means you will get wet, and they say so upfront, which I appreciated. Only gripe: the Dawki boat ride felt rushed. Everything else was better than the price suggested.

Booked eleven days before departure and they still sorted the permits. Payment link, invoice, GST — all of it came through properly, which is not something I can say about the last operator I used.
Backpacking, run properly.
Since 2017We started as three friends who kept getting asked to plan everyone else's Himalaya trips. Nine years on, it's a full-time team of captains, drivers and a support desk that actually picks up — still doing exactly what we started with.
No white-labelled itineraries and no routes we haven't driven ourselves. If a batch runs under the Backpacker Tours name, someone on our team has led it before.
Upcoming Departures
Six more batches with dates already locked in.
Weekend friendly
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Try-dive included
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No flight needed
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Strenuous
Latest Travel Stories
Notes from our captains and travellers, not marketing copy.
Trip planning
How much Ladakh actually costs, broken down
Permits, fuel, oxygen, the lot — where the price of an 8-day batch really goes, and where it doesn't.
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Packing
What to actually pack for a winter trek
Not a generic checklist — what our captains have seen people regret bringing, and regret leaving behind.
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Trip report
Six days in Meghalaya during peak monsoon
We send batches out when it's actually raining. Here's what that trip looks like, hour by hour.
Read MoreLet's Plan Your Next Adventure
Tell us roughly where you want to go and when — a trip expert gets back to you within two working hours, usually faster on WhatsApp.
Six places to start
A quick preview before the full list — every destination page has the packages, group departures and attractions worth building a trip around.
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Shot by the people who went
A handful of frames from recent batches — tap any of them to look closer.
Trip chatter, dates and last-minute seats — before they hit the website.
Real travellers, real questions, and a first look at every new batch. No spam, just the group.

