Uttarakhand is where India goes for the Himalaya without leaving the country. Snow peaks along the whole northern edge, pine forest and lake towns below them, the Ganga running out of the hills at Rishikesh and Haridwar, and four of Hinduism’s most important shrines at the heads of the valleys.
For a family it is usually where a child sees snow for the first time. For couples it is Auli in January, or a ridge at Mukteshwar with nothing to do and Nanda Devi across the valley. For anyone escaping an Indian summer it is the shortest route to cold weather, a forest and a lake.
Uttarakhand is two states in practice, and understanding that saves most itineraries. Kumaon in the east holds Nainital, Ranikhet, Mukteshwar, Almora and Jim Corbett. Garhwal in the west holds Mussoorie, Rishikesh, Haridwar, Auli and the Char Dham temples. They look adjacent on a map. Google Maps puts Nainital to Mussoorie at 319 km and 7 hours 12 minutes by road via NH734 — you will see that journey quoted as eight to ten hours elsewhere, and either way it is most of a day.
Every Uttarakhand tour package below is a land package: it begins at the nearest airport or railway station and ends there, so it is the same trip whether you fly in from Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bengaluru or Hyderabad. Prices start at ₹22,999 per person. IMAD Travel has been an IATA-certified agency since 2011, and Priyanka runs our domestic India desk.
Uttarakhand tour packages cost from ₹22,999 per person for 5 days and 4 nights, ₹31,999 for 7 days and 6 nights, and ₹44,899 for the 10-day Uttarakhand family tour package. Children pay exactly half the adult price on all three Uttarakhand tour packages.
| Uttarakhand tour package | Duration | Price per adult | Price per child | Price per infant |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nainital & Jim Corbett Uttarakhand tour package | 5 days / 4 nights | ₹22,999 | ₹11,499 | ₹9,999 |
| Popular Uttarakhand tour package | 7 days / 6 nights | ₹31,999 | ₹15,999 | ₹11,199 |
| Uttarakhand family tour package for 10 days | 10 days / 9 nights | ₹44,899 | ₹22,449 | ₹15,799 |
Price is per person, land package. Also searched as: Uttarakhand holiday packages · Uttarakhand trip packages · Uttarakhand vacation packages · Uttarakhand tourism packages.
You can book one part of a Uttarakhand trip on its own, and we will tell you when you do not need us. If you want the Uttarakhand hotels and transfers but would rather book your own flights, that is an ordinary booking here — there is no obligation to take a full Uttarakhand holiday package. Tell Priyanka what you have already arranged and she prices only the rest.
The three Uttarakhand tour packages above are the published ones. Most Uttarakhand trips we actually send out are custom — the same hotels and drivers, rearranged around the days you have and the places you want. Ask for either.
Take the 5-day Uttarakhand tour package for one region, the 7-day Uttarakhand tour package if you want both Kumaon and Garhwal, and the 10-day Uttarakhand family tour package if you are travelling with parents or young children — and let driving time decide, not the number of places on your list.
5 days / 4 nights — ₹22,999. The Nainital and Jim Corbett Uttarakhand tour package. Both sit in Kumaon, so the transit is short and the days are spent in places rather than on roads. The right first Uttarakhand trip.
7 days / 6 nights — ₹31,999. The popular Uttarakhand tour package. Enough days to cross between the two regions without the drive eating the holiday.
10 days / 9 nights — ₹44,899. The Uttarakhand family tour package for 10 days. Multi-generational groups book this one most, because it has room for rest days — which matters when you are travelling with parents at altitude.
We would not recommend the 5-day Uttarakhand tour package if Mussoorie is on your list. Mussoorie is in Garhwal and Nainital is in Kumaon, and the road between them is 319 km and over seven hours. On a five-day Uttarakhand trip that is more than a quarter of your holiday spent in a car. Take the 7-day Uttarakhand holiday package instead, or drop a region. Saying that costs us a booking and saves you a bad trip.
Yes — every Uttarakhand tour package is priced per person, so a couple books the same 5, 7 or 10-day Uttarakhand package at two adult prices, and we add the couple arrangements on request rather than selling a separate Uttarakhand tour package for couples at a markup. Two adults on the 5-day Uttarakhand trip come to ₹45,998.
A Uttarakhand tour package for a couple is a different shape from a family one. Fewer stops, longer in each, and the quiet places rather than the busy ones — Mukteshwar and Ranikhet over Nainital’s Mall Road, a ridge with a fireplace over a lake with pedal boats. Tell Priyanka the month and she will say plainly which places will be cold, crowded or shut.
A Uttarakhand tour package for two also travels differently. With no children in the group the itinerary can take the longer road, start later, and stay somewhere without a restaurant attached — which opens up the small Uttarakhand properties that a family package cannot use.
Planning a Uttarakhand trip? WhatsApp +91 63003 03169 and ask for Priyanka. Send your travel dates, how many adults and children with ages, and the Uttarakhand places you want. She sends back a costed Uttarakhand itinerary, usually the same working day, with no obligation to book it.
Yes — Uttarakhand honeymoon tour packages are built to order rather than sold as fixed departures, because the right Uttarakhand honeymoon depends almost entirely on the month you are travelling.
Auli is the winter Uttarakhand honeymoon. Snow from around January to March, the cable car up from Joshimath, and Nanda Devi across the valley. Cold and remote, and couples who want that love it.
Mukteshwar is the one we suggest most often. A ridge above an orchard belt, a short list of small properties, and one of the cleanest Himalayan panoramas in Kumaon. Nothing to do, which is what a honeymoon is for.
Ranikhet is the quiet Uttarakhand honeymoon destination — pine forest, long views, an old cantonment and very little else.
Nainital suits couples who want a town around them, with a lake, a promenade and places to eat. It is the least private of the four and the easiest to enjoy.
The honest counter-argument, because Uttarakhand is not the right honeymoon for every couple: it is cold, the roads are long, and there is no nightlife, shopping or beach to fall back on. If either of you would rather be warm, say so now and look at Kashmir or one of our international honeymoon routes instead. We would rather move you than sell you the wrong Uttarakhand honeymoon package.
On honeymoon resorts in Uttarakhand specifically: the state has very few large resort properties and a great many small ones, so a Uttarakhand honeymoon is usually a question of which village rather than which brand. Tell us the month and the budget and we will name the two or three worth having in that window.
The Uttarakhand family tour package for 10 days runs 10 days and 9 nights at ₹44,899 per adult and ₹22,449 per child, and the reason families choose it over the shorter Uttarakhand tour packages is the rest days rather than the extra sights.
Three things make a Uttarakhand family trip work. Altitude gain has to be gradual when grandparents are travelling — that is what the spare days buy. Children need a lake or a park every second day, not a temple every day. And the drive between Kumaon and Garhwal is 319 km of hill road, so a family itinerary either accepts one long travel day or stays in one region.
Children pay exactly half the adult price on every Uttarakhand tour package, and infants less again. Tell us the ages when you ask for the Uttarakhand itinerary — it changes the hotels we pick, not just the price.
A shorter Uttarakhand family tour package still works if ten days is too many. The 5-day Nainital and Corbett package is the one most families start with, and it is the least demanding Uttarakhand trip on this page for anyone travelling with very young children.
Yes — the Nainital tour package price is ₹22,999 per adult and ₹11,499 per child for 5 days and 4 nights, combining Nainital with Jim Corbett. It is the most-booked single Uttarakhand tour package we sell.
Nainital is the lake town at the centre of Kumaon, and the package is built around it: Naini Lake and the boats, the Mall Road along one shore, the ropeway to Snow View for the Himalayan skyline, and then the drive down to Jim Corbett for the wildlife half. The two sit close enough together that the Nainital tour package does not lose days to driving — which is exactly why it is priced as the entry Uttarakhand package.
Nainital in May and June is the busiest place in Uttarakhand. If your dates are flexible, ask us about late September instead. Same lake, a third of the people.
The Nainital tour package with prices above is a land package, so what you see is what the Uttarakhand portion costs. Add travel to it or book your own; the price of the package itself does not move either way.
Not as a published Rishikesh tour package today — we build Rishikesh as a custom Uttarakhand itinerary instead, and it is the most-asked Uttarakhand destination we do not yet sell as a fixed package.
That is an honest gap rather than a padded answer. Rishikesh sits on the Ganga where it leaves the hills, and it is two different trips depending on why you go: the yoga and ashram town on one bank, and the white-water rafting centre on the other. Lakshman Jhula and Ram Jhula, the evening Ganga aarti at Triveni Ghat, and the Beatles Ashram are the fixed points. Haridwar is close enough that the two are almost always taken together.
If a Rishikesh trip package is what you want, ask and we will price it — dates, nights and whether rafting is the point.
Uttarakhand summer tour packages are the most-booked of the year and they are not the best-value ones. March to June is when the plains are unbearable and half of north India is in the hills — Nainital and Mussoorie are at their fullest, hotel rates are at their highest, and the Himalayan views are often hazy.
If your dates are fixed by school holidays, book early and accept the crowds — a summer Uttarakhand tour package in May needs securing months ahead, not weeks.
If your dates are genuinely flexible, take a September or October Uttarakhand trip instead. The monsoon has cleared, the air is washed so the mountain views are at their sharpest of the entire year, the hills are green rather than dusty, and the summer crowds have gone home. It is the same Uttarakhand tour package at a better moment.
Uttarakhand vacation packages in the winter months are a third option worth knowing about. January to March is the snow season, prices are lower than summer, and for a family whose children have never seen snow it is the Uttarakhand trip that gets remembered.
Mussoorie and Auli are both covered, as custom Uttarakhand holiday packages rather than as fixed departures — and in Auli’s case the month matters more than the itinerary.
Mussoorie is the Garhwal hill station above Dehradun and the one that suits travellers who want a walkable town rather than a base for excursions: Camel’s Back Road, Gun Hill by ropeway, Kempty Falls. It works best as the first or last stop of a Garhwal Uttarakhand trip. It does not combine well with Nainital on a short package, for the 319 km reason above.
Auli is Uttarakhand’s ski slope, a high meadow above Joshimath reached by one of the longest cable cars in Asia. Snow is reliable from roughly January to March. Outside that window Auli is a green meadow with the same views and no skiing — a fine trip, but a different one, and worth knowing before you book a winter Uttarakhand package for October.
Haridwar, Ranikhet, Mukteshwar, Chopta, Dhanaulti and Kedarnath are all built into custom Uttarakhand itineraries the same way. Tell us the places and we will tell you honestly whether they fit the days you have.
Every Uttarakhand tour package on this page is a land package — it starts and ends at the nearest airport or railway station, so the trip is identical whether you are travelling from Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Pune or Hyderabad.
Travelling from Hyderabad? We keep a separate page for Uttarakhand tour packages from Hyderabad, with the flight and train options from the city and what adding travel costs on top of the land package.
In practice that means Dehradun airport or Haridwar railway station for a Garhwal Uttarakhand itinerary — Mussoorie, Rishikesh, Auli — and Pantnagar airport or Kathgodam railway station for a Kumaon one, which covers Nainital, Ranikhet, Mukteshwar and Jim Corbett.
You can add flights or train tickets to any Uttarakhand package and we will quote them, or you can book your own and take the land package only. Neither costs you a better price on the rest of the trip. A single service on its own is a normal booking here, not a lesser one.
Send Priyanka four things and she returns a costed Uttarakhand itinerary, usually the same working day: your travel dates, the number of adults and children with ages, the Uttarakhand places you want to include, and whether you want travel to Uttarakhand added or the land package only.
The Uttarakhand itinerary is free and there is no obligation to book it. If you already have flights, a hotel, or you only want transfers and a driver, say so — we will price only the part you need.
Nainital, Mussoorie, Rishikesh, Haridwar, Auli and Jim Corbett are the six that most Uttarakhand trips are built from. Below them sit a dozen quieter places to visit in Uttarakhand that are worth adding when you have the days.
Nainital is the lake town at the centre of Kumaon and the most-booked place to visit in Uttarakhand. Naini Lake is the town — boating on it, the Mall Road along one shore, the ropeway up to Snow View for the Himalayan skyline behind. Busiest in May and June, and best in late September. Most Uttarakhand tour packages that include Nainital give it two nights, which is the right amount — one to see the lake, one to get above it.
Mussoorie is the Garhwal hill station above Dehradun, walkable in a way most Uttarakhand hill stations are not. Camel’s Back Road, Gun Hill by ropeway and Kempty Falls are the circuit. Close enough to Dehradun to work as the first or last stop of a Uttarakhand itinerary. It is the Uttarakhand hill station that suits travellers who would rather walk than be driven between viewpoints.
Rishikesh sits where the Ganga leaves the hills, and it is two places at once — the yoga and ashram town on one bank, the white-water rafting centre on the other. Lakshman Jhula, Ram Jhula, the evening aarti at Triveni Ghat, and the Beatles Ashram. It is the one place on this Uttarakhand list where the demand runs well ahead of what we currently sell as a package.
Haridwar is the pilgrimage city where the Ganga reaches the plains, and the Ganga aarti at Har Ki Pauri each evening is why most people come. Usually visited with Rishikesh, and the natural entry point to a Char Dham Uttarakhand itinerary. Haridwar railway station is also where a large share of Garhwal Uttarakhand tour packages actually begin.
Auli is Uttarakhand’s ski slope, a high meadow above Joshimath with Nanda Devi across the valley, reached by one of Asia’s longest cable cars. Snow from roughly January to March. The strongest winter place to visit in Uttarakhand, and the one couples ask us about most for a winter Uttarakhand honeymoon.
Jim Corbett is India’s oldest national park, in the Kumaon foothills, and the wildlife half of the 5-day Uttarakhand family tour package. Nobody honest promises a tiger, but the park also holds elephant, deer and a very large bird list. Zones open and close by season — we check which are open for your dates. Corbett is the wildlife anchor of almost every Uttarakhand family tour package we build.
Ranikhet is a quiet cantonment town in Kumaon with pine forest, an old golf course and long Himalayan views. What we suggest when someone says Nainital sounds too crowded. Very little to do, which is the point, and the reason it appears in more of our custom Uttarakhand itineraries than its size would suggest.
Mukteshwar is a small ridge village at the edge of a Kumaon orchard belt, with one of the cleanest Himalayan panoramas in Uttarakhand. The quiet-honeymoon answer for couples who want a view and a fireplace rather than a market and a boat ride. If you ask us for a Uttarakhand honeymoon package and give us no other steer, this is where we start.
Lansdowne is a Garhwal cantonment town that has stayed small — forest walks, a lake, and none of the hill-station commerce. One of the least developed places to visit in Uttarakhand and one of the easier ones to reach from the plains, which makes it a good short Uttarakhand trip when you have three days rather than seven.
Dhanaulti is a ridge of deodar forest between Mussoorie and Tehri, usually a day trip from Mussoorie rather than a stay. Snow in winter, cool through the summer, and eco-parks along the ridge. For families who want their children in snow without a high-altitude Uttarakhand itinerary, Dhanaulti is the easy answer.
Chopta is a Garhwal meadow and the trailhead for Tungnath, the highest Shiva temple in the Himalaya, with Chandrashila above it. The best short high-altitude walk in Uttarakhand for people who are not trekkers, and a genuinely different experience from anything on the Kumaon side of the state.
Kedarnath and Badrinath are two of the four Char Dham temples, both high in Garhwal and both seasonal — opening around late April or early May and closing around late October or November, with exact dates set fresh each year. Kedarnath means a long uphill walk or a helicopter shuttle from Phata or Guptkashi. A Char Dham Uttarakhand itinerary is the one trip on this page where the calendar, not the budget, decides whether it is possible at all.
Do not plan a Char Dham Uttarakhand itinerary on last year’s dates. They move. Ask us for the current year’s before you book.
Almora for its bazaar and the Kumaon hills behind it. Kausani for the sunrise line across Trishul and Nanda Devi. Bhimtal and Sattal for lakes without Nainital’s crowds. Dehradun as the Garhwal arrival city. Valley of Flowers, a UNESCO World Heritage site open only in the monsoon months, when the meadow is in flower. Joshimath as the gateway to Auli and Badrinath. Munsiyari for the Panchachuli range, and the furthest of these from anywhere else in Uttarakhand.
September and October are the best time to visit Uttarakhand, and they are the months most trips miss. The monsoon has cleared, the air is washed so the Himalayan views are at their sharpest of the year, the hills are green, and the May–June crowds have gone home.
March to June is the peak Uttarakhand season and the busiest. Pleasant in the hills, full hotels, highest prices, and Nainital and Mussoorie at their most crowded.
July and August are the monsoon. Greenest and emptiest, and the only window for the Valley of Flowers. Against that, landslides and road closures are real in the high Garhwal valleys and the mountain views are often behind cloud. We will tell you if your dates fall in a window we would not drive a family through.
September and October are the best of the year, for the reason above.
November to February is the Uttarakhand winter and a genuinely good season if you want snow rather than sightseeing. Auli, Dhanaulti and the upper reaches get snowfall from around January. Cold, some high roads shut, Char Dham closed — and the quietest, most beautiful Uttarakhand gets.
Rafting at Rishikesh, a jeep safari in Jim Corbett, the Auli cable car, the evening Ganga aarti at Haridwar and the walk up to Tungnath are the five things to do in Uttarakhand that our travellers mention most when they get home.
White-water rafting on the Ganga at Rishikesh runs in stretches of varying difficulty and is the single most-booked activity in Uttarakhand. It does not run through the peak monsoon weeks.
A jeep safari in Jim Corbett is booked by zone and by slot, and the zones open and close seasonally. Book well ahead rather than on arrival.
The Auli cable car from Joshimath is worth taking whether or not you ski.
The Ganga aarti at Har Ki Pauri in Haridwar is the thing most people remember from a Garhwal Uttarakhand trip.
The Chopta to Tungnath and Chandrashila walk is the accessible high-altitude one — steep, short, and doable by an unprepared visitor.
Snowfall is its own reason to come. From around January, Auli, Dhanaulti and the higher Garhwal reaches get it, and for many Indian families that is the entire point of the Uttarakhand trip.
Uttarakhand tour packages cost from ₹22,999 per person for 5 days and 4 nights, ₹31,999 for 7 days and 6 nights, and ₹44,899 for the 10-day Uttarakhand family tour package. Children pay half the adult price on all three.
Yes — the Uttarakhand family tour package for 10 days runs 10 days and 9 nights at ₹44,899 per adult and ₹22,449 per child. It is the one multi-generational families book most, because it builds in rest days.
Every Uttarakhand package is a land package starting at the nearest airport or railway station — Dehradun or Haridwar for Garhwal, Pantnagar or Kathgodam for Kumaon. The trip is identical from Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bengaluru or Hyderabad.
September and October. The monsoon has cleared, the Himalayan views are at their sharpest and the summer crowds have gone. March to June is the peak season; January to March is the snow season for Auli and Dhanaulti.
Yes, built to order. Auli for snow between January and March, Mukteshwar or Ranikhet for quiet, Nainital for a lake and a town. Every Uttarakhand package is priced per person, so a couple books two adult prices.
₹22,999 per adult and ₹11,499 per child for 5 days and 4 nights, combining Nainital with Jim Corbett. It is the entry-priced Uttarakhand tour package and the most-booked one.
Not as a published package today — we build Rishikesh as a custom Uttarakhand itinerary. Tell us your dates and we will price it.
Only on a 7-day Uttarakhand tour package or longer. Google Maps puts the road between them at 319 km and 7 hours 12 minutes, so on a 5-day trip it costs more than a quarter of the holiday.
They can, either way. Every package is quoted as a land package first; add flights or train tickets and we will price them, or book your own and take the land portion only. The rest of the trip costs the same either way.
Both are seasonal, opening around late April or early May and closing around late October or November, with exact dates set fresh each year. Ask us for the current year’s before planning a Char Dham Uttarakhand itinerary.
The hills are at their most beautiful in July and August, but landslides and road closures are a real risk in the high Garhwal valleys. We will say plainly if your dates fall in a window we would not drive a family through.
Five if you stay in one region, seven if you want both Kumaon and Garhwal, ten if you are travelling with parents or young children and want rest days.
Planning a Uttarakhand trip? Send us your travel dates, the number of adults and children with ages, and the places you want to see. Priyanka on our domestic India desk builds the Uttarakhand itinerary around it and prices it as a land package, with travel added only if you want it — and if you need just one part of the trip, that is what we will quote. WhatsApp +91 63003 03169, or see our India tour packages and Himachal Pradesh pages.
Official state tourism information: Uttarakhand Tourism Development Board.
Last verified: 17 September 2026. Package prices, Char Dham opening dates and Jim Corbett zone availability change through the year. Confirm current details before you book.
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