Shikhar Educational Tours

We feel privileged to introduce to you 'Shikhar Travels (I) Pvt Ltd' as one of India's leading Destination Management Companies, having the necessary infrastructure and expertise to look after all kind of tours.

We have been in the business for over 30 years and have been able to achieve excellence in providing quality service to our clients with our experience in handling educational, domestic & incoming tourists to this country since 1979.

We would like to mention here that we have had the privilege of being associated with world renowned Mountaineers like Sir. Edmund Hillary, Ms. Junko Tabie, Mr. Reihnold Messner and many other famous personalities who are living legends. We have handled over 250 climbing expeditions to the Indian Himalayas during the span of our business.

Apart from this, we have handled many educational trips from different schools, universities and colleges within India and abroad. We have also handled educational groups from many International schools from Hong Kong, Singapore and many universities in USA.

With our vast experience in handling school and college groups, we understand the specific requirements of educational trips in every aspect. No doubt we have readymade packages for such trips, but we prefer to offer trips according to the specific requirement of the institutes.                                   

According to the requirement of the trip, we take the support of Experts in different fields such as flowers and plant guides, Wild Life guides, adventure instructor and other escort from various specialised areas to make the study/educational trips more beneficial for the students.

The SHIKHAR Family at A VILLAGE RETREAT ON 10 JANUARY 2009

Eco-tourism :

Shikhar Travels is  fully committed to follow Eco-tourism practices while handling all kind of tours. It is the policy of our company to look after the interests of the local community which go hand-in-hand with the promotion of tourism.

We are pledged to UIAA ( United International Alpine Association) which is a body of world wide mountaineers to promote Eco-tourism as well as to ATOAI (Adventure Tour Operators Association of India) to preserve Ecological and environmental aspects of the area where we take our groups.

Therefore, be assured that  the students who are doing outdoor activities with us will be motivated by us to pledge to this particular commitment.

Transport Facilities :

The well maintained fleet of latest Deluxe Air-conditioned buses and cars of our company enables us to facilitate quality transport arrangements for our clients.

Confidence And Leadership Building :

Shikhar  has been organizing OUTDOOR TEAM BUILDING PROGRAMS for  students for the last couple of years at our camping resort  A Village Retreat, Gurgaon, a peaceful retreat set amidst lust green fields, situated just 40 KM's from Connaught Place, on Gurgaon - Pataudi Road. It has Swiss Cottages with attached bath and lot of activities to do in a nature friendly, open and relaxed atmosphere.

Similarly we have another Resort in Uttarkashi, Shikhar Nature Resort a beautiful camping resort situated on the banks of River Bhagirathi, which is just 4 hours drive from Rishikesh. Discovery Channel and Sony Entertainment made a Film of Uttarkashi-Gangotri region, which is being featured regularly on their channels.