India is one of the wildest, most exotic, beautiful and interesting places on earth. Everyone should go there at least once in their lives. It is a fantastic educational and eye-opening experience for children…and adults too! The difficult thing is deciding where to go in this vast, populous and diverse country. Don’t be intimidated by travelling in such a wild and different place with children, it is as easy to travel anywhere as it is to go to India with children. There are many resources available to advise about this sort of thing, like India Trips and Lonely Planet.

The first thing you have to decide is whether you will go to the north or the south. They are two very different locations! The Northern destinations include Rajastan, the Golden triangle, the Taj Mahal, Varanasi, Ranthambore, Bandhagarh and Kanha national parks, Delhi, Kolkata, and Udaipur. Southern Indian destinations include boating, houseboating, cruising, Kerala, Chennai, Cochin, Goa, and Mumbai. Read up on each destination and ask lots of questions. Mumbai seems like the craziest, busiest, and most frenetic city in the world, and it’s really something to see, although I wouldn’t advise staying there too long, it’s better to see it and then get off to a more relaxing place, and see a different side to India, because there really is too much to see. Take it for granted that on any one trip you won’t be able to see everything, so just choose wisely and enjoy what you have chosen, I found that it’s the only way.