"Paris to Delhi is a little over eight hours. You leave Charles de Gaulle in the early morning, the Seine still dark, the city not yet awake, and land in something that engages every sense before you have cleared arrivals."
The air is warm, carrying jasmine and something faintly smoky. A driver in a white uniform holds a card with your name. That evening, dinner at The Spice Route inside The Imperial, Delhi's most distinguished art-deco address, where the hand-painted ceilings and the slow arrival of each course feel less like a restaurant and more like an education.
France has long understood that travel, done properly, is an act of culture. At Luxury India Private Tours, we share that conviction entirely. We are a Ministry of Tourism-recognised operator with over 15 years of designing private journeys for French travellers who arrive with high expectations and leave with stories they did not anticipate. The question is never whether to come. It is how long you have, and what India should show you.
A week covers the essential architecture of the north. Our 6 Nights / 7 Days Golden Triangle Tour moves through Delhi, Agra, and Jaipur, the Taj Mahal at dusk from the private gardens of Mehtab Bagh, going amber then rose across the river, and again at sunrise in near silence; Rambagh Palace across 47 acres of former royal gardens; Amber Fort by vintage jeep. For those drawn to the painted merchant havelis of the Shekhawati desert, the kind of folk-art tradition that French travellers tend to recognise immediately, the 6 Nights / 7 Days Golden Triangle with Mandawa adds a region that most visitors never reach.
Eight nights allow the journey to deepen. The Golden Triangle with Varanasi follows the Ganges at first light, the ghats still quiet, the smoke of incense drifting across the water in a way that recalls nothing else on earth. The Golden Triangle with Ranthambore pairs the heritage circuit with a private tiger safari in one of India's finest reserves.
For those who want Rajasthan in full, Jaisalmer's sandstone fort at sunset, Jodhpur's indigo lanes, the lake palaces of Udaipur, the 12 Nights / 13 Days Luxury Golden Triangle with Rajasthan covers the entire royal circuit without a single compromise. South India is equally within reach: Kerala's backwaters and Pondicherry's French-colonial quarter pair naturally into a longer journey for those with two weeks. We work with over 50 handpicked properties. French-language support is available during planning. Pricing in Euros, fully transparent. Our team is on WhatsApp across the CET-IST gap, from the first conversation to the last evening.
All is crafted to meet the quality expectations of discerning French travellers.