No single tour in our catalogue covers both countries. Here is how a private trip joins an India itinerary to a Nepal one, what it costs, and the two months where both climates work.
Short answer: no single tour in our catalogue covers both countries. Every Nepal itinerary starts and ends at Kathmandu airport. Every India itinerary but one stays inside India. If you want both, we join two existing trips into one private journey.
That is not a workaround. It beats a combined tour that squeezes each country into four days.
Is there one tour that does India and Nepal?
No. We run 15 tours in India and 6 in Nepal, and none of them crosses that border. The closest thing on paper is our 12-day Colourful Rajasthan & Himalayas, from EUR 1,910 — but the Himalayan half of that trip is Kalimpong and the meter-gauge hill railway in West Bengal, on the Indian side of the range. It never enters Nepal.
We do sell one two-country itinerary: India's facets & Maldives, 15 days from EUR 3,140, which ends on a Maldivian island. The shape is familiar; it just does not exist yet for Nepal.
So we build it per booking: two full itineraries joined, with the duplicated departure and arrival days in the middle removed. Every trip we sell is private — 31 tours, not one scheduled group departure among them — so merging two is a planning job, not a scheduling one.
Three combinations that work
Culture and spirituality, around 15 days on the ground. Golden Triangle & Spirituality (8 days, from EUR 1,175) plus The world of Nepal (9 days, from EUR 930). The India half runs Delhi — Jaipur — Agra — Varanasi. The Nepal half runs Kathmandu — Chitwan — Pokhara — Dhulikhel — Nagarkot — Bhaktapur. This is the pairing most people searching for "India and Nepal" are after: the Taj Mahal and the ghats, then the Himalaya and a one-horned rhino.
One thematic join is worth knowing about. Day 7 in Varanasi visits Sarnath, where the Buddha gave his first sermon. Our 11-day Trekking tour through Nepal (from EUR 1,575) stops at Lumbini, where he was born. Pair those two instead and you get both ends of that story.
Shorter, and built around Holi. Golden Triangle & Colors of India (7 days, from EUR 1,515) plus The world of Nepal. The India week runs Delhi — Agra — Jaipur — Udaipur, with day 5 built around Holi in a Jaipur garden. Holi follows the lunar calendar and lands in March most years, occasionally the very end of February. That fixes your dates, so decide on this one early.
Walking, around 20 days. Culture and Himalayan hiking (14 days, from EUR 1,760) plus the 8-day Golden Triangle & Spirituality. The Nepal half is five trekking stages out of Pokhara, starting and finishing at Nayapul at 1,070 m, plus Chitwan and the Kathmandu Valley. The stages are graded easy — long days on foot, no technical ground. One honest note: Annapurna-area trekking permits are not itemised in what the tour includes, so ask us to confirm they are in your quote.
Every itinerary is on the tours page. Tell us which two you want joined and we quote the combination, not two separate trips.
When to go: the overlap is narrower than people expect
North India and Nepal do not share a season neatly. They overlap in two windows.
October and November are the best window, clearly. Nepal has just come out of the monsoon and the mountain views are at their sharpest all year. Kathmandu sits at about 1,400 m — expect mid-20s by day in October, a couple of degrees cooler in November, nights around 13°C falling towards 8°C. Sunrise from Sarangkot at 1,592 m and Nagarkot at 2,175 m is worth the early alarm in these two months. North India is dry at the same time, Delhi around 33°C in October easing to about 28°C in November.
Late February to March is the second window. North India is pleasant before the heat arrives and Nepal is warming up. The trade-off is real: spring haze builds over the Himalaya, so the peaks are less crisp than in autumn. Rhododendrons on the trekking routes partly compensate.
December and January are the problem months. Nepal is cold at altitude — Kathmandu days around 17 to 19°C, nights near freezing. More to the point, Delhi gets dense morning fog from late December through January, which delays flights and trains and can eat a day of an itinerary. If those are your only dates, do the Nepal half first and give the Delhi legs slack.
April to September we would steer you away from. Delhi and Rajasthan sit near or past 40°C through May and June. In Nepal the monsoon runs roughly June to September, and one line from our own Chitwan itinerary is worth repeating: no jeep safaris run in Chitwan National Park during July, August and September. That is written into the trip because it is true.
More on the Indian side in our guide to the best time to visit India month by month.
Getting between the two countries
You fly. Delhi to Kathmandu is the easy option: around an hour and three quarters, with more than a dozen departures a day.
Varanasi to Kathmandu also flies direct, under an hour, but only three times a week on one airline — that pins your join to specific days. A second wrinkle: the spirituality itinerary does not actually end in Varanasi. Day 8 flies you back to Delhi. Joining at Varanasi means swapping that domestic sector for the Kathmandu one, which we handle when quoting.
Two land crossings exist — Sunauli in Uttar Pradesh, near Lumbini, and Kakarbhitta in the east. We run neither: both are long days with a border queue in the middle. Ask at enquiry if you want one, and we will say plainly whether we can build it.
One thing to plan for: the India–Nepal leg is an international flight. Our itineraries include domestic flights inside a country — the Varanasi to Delhi sector is in the Golden Triangle & Spirituality price — but international flights are excluded from every tour we sell. Ask us to quote the Kathmandu sector explicitly so it is priced, not assumed.
The visa detail that catches people out
Two countries, two visas. Nepal issues a visa on arrival at Kathmandu airport for most European, UK and US passport holders. India does not — you apply for an e-visa in advance.
Here is the part that costs people money. If your route is India, then Nepal, then back into India to fly home, you re-enter India. Check how many entries your Indian e-visa allows before you book that shape of trip. A single-entry visa and a return flight out of Delhi is a bad thing to discover at Kathmandu airport. Confirm the current rules on the official Indian visa portal or with your consulate — they change, and we would rather you checked.
What you actually get
Every trip is private. No group departures, no fixed dates, no coach of strangers. A German-speaking guide is included on every itinerary named here, along with hotel accommodation, breakfast and a contact reachable 24 hours a day.
Our accommodation runs Standard, Deluxe, Superior and Executive. There is no five-star tier and we do not pretend there is. On Golden Triangle & Spirituality that means The Suryaa in Delhi and the Trident in Jaipur and Agra — comfortable, well-located, not palatial.
Prices across the catalogue run from EUR 350 to EUR 3,140. A joined trip lands roughly where the two halves add up, minus the days removed at the join.
If you would rather do one country properly
Combining is not automatically better. Two weeks split across two countries means two arrival days, two departure days and a flight in the middle. Under 14 days total, one country gives you more.
In that case: 8 days on the Golden Triangle and Varanasi, or 14 days on Royal Rajasthan & Varanasi from EUR 1,520, which adds Ranthambore and the Shekhawati havelis to Rajasthan. Or the 9-day Nepal loop through Kathmandu, Chitwan and Pokhara at EUR 930 — the lowest-priced Nepal itinerary we run. Our Golden Triangle guide covers the India option in detail.
Tell us your dates and how many days you have. We will say honestly whether combining is worth it, or whether you are better off doing one country and coming back.
