The Indian Himalayas are an adventure travellers paradise, a natural playground second to none. This huge mountain range makes it possible for us to offer a wide range of different trekking, rafting and kayaking holidays suited to your needs and abilities throughout the year.

We focus on taking our clients away from the beaten tourist path to experience the real India in a responsible manner. Whether trekking through the grounds of a remote Buddhist Monastery or paddling down remote river canyons we immerse you in some of the oldest cultures and traditions in the world. The memory of your IntoIndia adventure will stay with you long after your holiday is over.

As an experienced adventure travel company, we follow all safety and security regulations on all our remote kayaking, rafting and trekking expeditions. Take a look at our existing itineraries for an adventure of a lifetime, or contact us and let us arrange your dream trip.

ECONOMIC RESPONSIBILITY
All our fresh vegetables and fruit are sourced from markets and locally owned and run shops. Only specialist goods such as kayaks and rafts are imported. We are happy to advise clients on tipping. When we receive tips the money is split evenly between the guides, cooks, porters and drivers. We encourage clients to pay the market price for gifts and souvenirs in local markets. On IntoIndia itineraries we usually visit at least one local market and use family run restaurants where possible. When in transit to and from a trek or river expedition we use locally run hotels rather than multi-national hotel groups. This further enhances our contribution to the local economies where we operate.

ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY
If you are taking an internal flight on your IntoIndia holiday we will offset your carbon emissions through Climate Care (www.climatecare.org). We encourage you to do the same on your international flights to India. We sponsor Clean Himalaya a recycling and waste management project, dedicated to maintaining the sanctity and beauty of the Ganges and Himalayas. For more information and to make your own donation please see www.cleanhimalaya.com. We minimise the amount of canned and packaged goods on our trips, reducing our non-biodegradable waste. We operate under a strict 'leave no trace' policy. All biodegradable waste is buried deep in the ground, breaking down over a short period of time. All other waste is carried off the expedition and disposed of in a responsible manner. On all our trips we use pit toilets which are the most eco-friendly form of toilet available to us. We dig a hole in the ground, place a portable toilet seat over it and assemble a tent around the seat. Waste is covered with a mixture of soil and lime until the hole is full. In less than a month the faecal matter will have broken down due to the action of the lime. We use Katadyn filters and iodine to purify river water, cutting down on the quantity of plastic bottles used. In order to reduce soil erosion on trekking trips, we stay on existing trails where possible.

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
We are familiar with local customs and traditions in the areas we operate, and aim to respect these at all times. We advise clients on appropriate dress and the importance of respecting local people and customs. Most of our staff comes from the areas where we operate. We participate in their development within the industry providing training in first aid, guiding and English conversation. On IntoIndia expeditions we attend cultural and social events such as ethnic weaving centres, tea plantations, and Arrti prayer services. We encourage our clients to partake in local traditions whenever possible.

General Information

Deposit payment
We require a non-refundable deposit of 20% to confirm a booking, where travel is within 60 days of booking full payment
is required.
Confirmation of booking
Once a booking has been confirmed a confirmation invoice will be sent to you along with
additional tour information.
Final payment
Your final invoice will be sent to you 9 weeks before departure. Payment of the balance is due no later than 56 days prior to departure.

Making payment
Deposit and full Payment can be made via bank transfer, our bank details will be supplied on request. We also accept cheques made out to ‘IntoIndia Ltd’.

Booking check-list
Please ensure you are aware of the following important issues before booking a IntoIndia tour:
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Travel Insurance – Insurance is mandatory for all customers on all IntoIndia tours. You must declare any pre-existing medical conditions to your insurers and ensure you receive written confirmation that any pre-existing medical conditions are fully insured.

Insurance Documentation – copy of your insurance policy detailing policy validity dates, cover and names of those insured must be carried on tour to show to the Tour Leader.

Passports – All travellers must have an valid passport to enter India

Visas – Travellers must have a visa to enter India. We recommend that you get a standard tourist visa. For more information contact your nearest Indian Embassy.

Visa space – must have at least one free page in your passport per visa required for the tour

Fitness and ability – is imperative for everyone’s sake that you are fit and healthy enough
and able to participate in all included elements of you chosen tour. Please ensure you have read
the tour literature and are happy with this before booking

Names – airlines now require full names (first and surnames) in order to issue flight tickets
and may refuse boarding to any that do not exactly match up with the relevant passport. Please
ensure that all names you supply to us are complete and correct (no nicknames or abbreviations)
and as per passport.














BOOKING CONDITIONS

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY:

IntoIndia Ltd (‘the Company’) accepts bookings subject to the following conditions:

1.YOUR HOLIDAY CONTRACT
The contract is between the Company and the client, being any person travelling or intending to travel on a tour operated by the Company.The contract, including all matters arising from it, is subject to Irish law and the exclusive jurisdiction of the Irish Courts. No employee of the Company other than a director has authority to vary or omit any of these terms or promise any discount or refund.

2.TO SECURE YOUR BOOKING
(Please refer to Section 13 Late Bookings)
To secure a booking the Company or their agent requires a completed booking form and the necessary deposit.(Full payment for travel within 60 days.) Clients booking will be deemed to have agreed to the following four conditions:

a) they have read and accepted our Booking Conditions and general information pages, contained on our website.

b) they appreciate the risks involved in adventure travel.

c) they do not suffer (or has ever suffered) from any pre-existing medical condition which may prevent them from actively participating in the tour.
A booking is accepted and becomes definite only from the date when the Company sends a confirmation invoice. It is at this point that a contract between the Company and the client comes into existence. Before your booking is confirmed and a contract comes into force, the Company reserves the right to increase or decrease website prices.
The Company or their agents reserve the right to decline any booking at their discretion. Where our allocation of air seats has been fully utilised or where it is not possible to offer an air seat from an allocation, we reserve the right to pass on any extra costs incurred.

3.PAYMENT FOR YOUR HOLIDAY
The balance of all monies due, including any surcharges applicable at that time, must be paid to the Company or their agent not later than 56 days before departure. In the case of non-payment of the balance by the due date the Company reserves the right to cancel your booking and cancellation charges will apply. Any monies paid by you to a travel agent for tours operated by the Company, are held by the agent on the Company’s behalf.

4. IF YOU CHANGE YOUR BOOKING
a) An administration fee of €40 per booking plus any additional cost incurred will be charged if a confirmed booking is changed or transferred to a different departure date or tour, up to 56 days prior to departure. Thereafter all changes will be treated as cancellations and subject to the charges below. Changes are subject to availability. For an administration fee of €40 you can request a credit voucher. This can be redeemed within 3 years of issue and must be used against a new booking. The voucher is non transferable and cannot be exchanged for cash.

b) If a client is unable to travel, in certain circumstances which the Company considers reasonable, the booking may be transferred to another suitable person, however the tour arrangements must remain the same and will only be allowed if all suppliers (eg. airlines, trains etc.) agree to accept the name change. If a transfer is allowed an administration charge of €60 per person will be made if
the Company is advised up to 56 days before departure or €100 per person if less than 56 days before departure, plus any extra charges levied by suppliers.








5. IF YOU CANCEL YOUR BOOKING
Should the client wish to cancel, cancellation charges will be imposed. These are calculated from the day written notification is received by the Company or their agent as a percentage of the total tour price, including surcharges, as shown below:

a) 56 and more days before departure – retention of deposit
b) 55-42 days before departure – 30%
c) 41-28 days before departure – 60%
d) 27-14 days before departure – 90%
e) Less than 14 days before departure – 100%

6. IF YOU HAVE A COMPLAINT
Should the client have a complaint about any of the tour arrangements, the client must tell both the relevant supplier and the Company’s representative at the time. It is only if the Company and the relevant supplier know about problems that there will be the opportunity to put things right. Failure to complain on the spot will result in the client’s ability to claim compensation from the Company being extinguished or at least reduced.

7.PASSPORTS,VISAS AND VACCINATIONS
Clients are responsible for arranging, and must be in possession of, a valid passport, entry visas and vaccination certificates required for the whole of their journey. Information about these matters or related items (climate, clothing, baggage, personal gear etc) is given in good faith but without responsibility on the part of the Company.

8.TRAVEL AND CANCELLATION INSURANCE
Travel Insurance is mandatory for all clients whilst on a tour organised by the Company. Clients together with their personal property including baggage are at all times solely at their own risk. Clients are wholly responsible for arranging their own insurance. Clients are responsible for ensuring that they are in possession of private Travel Insurance with protection for
the full duration of the tour in respect of at least medical expenses, injury, death, repatriation, cancellation and curtailment, with adequate cover. Clients making their own arrangements should ensure that there are no exclusion clauses limiting protection for the type of activities included in their tour.

9. HOLIDAY PARTICIPATION
Clients agree to accept the authority and decisions of the Company’s employees, tour leaders and agents whilst on tour with the Company. If in the opinion of such persons the health, level of fitness or conduct of a client at any time before or after departure appears likely to endanger the safe, comfortable or happy progress of a tour the client may be excluded from all or part of the tour without refund or recompense. In the case of ill-health the Company may make such arrangements as it sees fit and recover the costs thereof from the client. If a client commits an illegal act the client may be excluded from the tour and the Company shall cease to have responsibility to/for them. If you are affected by a condition, medical or otherwise, that might affect you or affect other people’s enjoyment or active participation of the tour, you must advise us at the time of booking. No refund will be given for any unused services.

10. IF WE CHANGE YOUR HOLIDAY
While the Company will use its best endeavours to operate all tours as advertised, it reserves the right to change any of the facilities, services, prices or itineraries described in this brochure and/or the website. If a major change is necessary or deemed advisable, the Company will inform the client as soon as reasonably possible, if there is time before departure. A major change does not apply to a change of carrier, transport or named accommodation, but is normally considered to be a major itinerary re-routing, a significant change in the duration of your holiday, a change of flight times or departure airport of more than 12 hours for internal flights in India. If advised of a major change before departure the client will have the choice of accepting the changes (at additional cost if applicable), purchasing another available tour from the Company, or cancelling the tour with a full refund. The Company will not pay compensation if forced to cancel or change your tour because of situations outside the Company’s control or consolidation, both as defined below. Compensation includes, but is not limited to, any penalty charges associated with ‘non-flexible’ type connecting rail or air fares. Events outside the Company’s control include, but are
not limited to, war, threat of war, riot, civil strife, industrial dispute, terrorist activity, natural or nuclear disaster, fire or adverse weather conditions, epidemics, or health risks, technical or maintenance problems with transport, closed or congested airports, ports or stations, changes imposed by re-scheduling or cancellation of transportation by the transport supplier, such as flights by airlines or main charterer, the alteration of airlines or aircraft types, or other similar events beyond the control of the Company. Consolidation is the situation in which the minimum number of bookings required to run a holiday is not met.

11. IF WE CANCEL YOUR HOLIDAY
The Company reserves the right to cancel a tour in any circumstances but will not cancel a tour less than 8 weeks before departure except for force majeure, consolidation or the client’s failure to pay the final balance. Unless the client fails to pay the final balance, the Company, upon cancellation, will return all monies paid not including visa, vaccination or associated costs, or offer an alternative tour of comparable standard and will pay compensation on the scale shown in clause 10 above save that no compensation will be paid if cancellation is because of force majeure or consolidation.

12. OUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR HOLIDAY
Clients bookings are accepted on the understanding that they appreciate the possible risks inherent in adventure travel and that they undertake the tours, treks or expeditions featured in our programme at their own volition.
(i) Our obligations, and those of our suppliers providing any service or facility included in your holiday, are to take reasonable skill and care to arrange for the
provision of such services and facilities and, where we or our supplier is actually providing the service or facility, to provide them and to do so with reasonable skill and care. You must show that reasonable skill and care has not
been used if you wish to make any claim. Standards of, for example, safety, hygiene and quality vary throughout the transport and destinations that your holiday may
involve. Sometimes these standards will be lower than those which would be expected to be found in the Republic of Ireland. The services and facilities included in your holiday will be deemed to be provided with reasonable skill and care if they comply with any local regulations which apply, or, if there are no applicable local regulations, if they are reasonable when compared to the local standards and customs.
(ii) Where the client does not suffer personal injury, the Company accepts liability should any part of the tour arrangements booked with the Company not be supplied
as described on the website. In such a case, the Company will pay reasonable compensation if the clients enjoyment of the tour arrangements has been adversely affected but will pay no compensation if there has been no fault on the part of the Company or its suppliers and the reason for the failure in the tour arrangements was the client’s fault, the actions of someone unconnected with the tour arrangements or could not have been foreseen or avoided by the Company
or its suppliers even if all due care was exercised.
(iii) For claims which involve death or personal injury as
a result of an activity forming part of your holiday, we accept, and will only have, liability subject to paragraphs (iv) and (v) below should we or our suppliers fail to satisfy the obligations detailed in paragraph (i) above. If
we have liability, we will, subject to paragraphs (v) and (vi) below, pay you reasonable compensation.
(iv) We have liability in accordance with paragraphs (ii)
and (iii) above and subject to paragraphs (v) and (vi) below except where the cause of the failure to provide, or failure in, your holiday or any death or personal injury you may suffer is not due to any fault on our part or that of our servants, agents or suppliers, because it is either
attributable to you, or attributable to someone unconnected with your holiday and is unforeseeable or unavoidable, or is due to unusual or unforeseeable
circumstances beyond our control, the consequences of which could not have been avoided even if all due care had been exercised, or an event which neither we, nor our
servants, agents or suppliers could have foreseen or forestalled.
(v) If any international convention applies to or governs any of the services or facilities included in your holiday arranged or provided by us, or provided by any of our
suppliers, and you make a claim against us of any nature arising out of death, injury, loss or damage suffered during or as a result of the provision of those services or facilities, our liability to pay you compensation and/or the amount (if any) of compensation payable to you by us
will be limited in accordance with and/or in an identical manner to that provided for by the international convention concerned (in each case including in respect
of the conditions of liability, the time for bringing any claim and the type and amount of any damages that can be awarded). International Conventions which may apply include: in
respect of international air travel, the Warsaw Convention 1929 (including as amended by the Hague
Protocol of 1955 and by any of the additional Montreal Protocol of 1975) or the Montreal Convention 1999; in respect of rail travel, the Berne Convention 1961; in respect of carriage by sea, the Athens Convention 1974; in respect of carriage by road, the Geneva Convention 1973; and, in respect of hotels, the Paris Convention 1962. For the avoidance of doubt, this means that we are to be regarded as having all benefit of any limitations of compensation contained in any of these Conventions or any other international conventions applicable to your holiday. If your baggage is lost, damaged or destroyed in any circumstance not subject to an international convention the maximum amount of compensation we will pay you will be €500. This sum will be assessed with reference particularly to your loss and the extent to which this has required you to purchase replacements.
(vi) If you choose to issue court proceedings in respect of a claim against us, you must do so within 2 years of your return from holiday or within 2 years of first discovering the matters giving rise to the claim, if this is later. If you do not, then our liability to you will be limited in all cases to a sum of €100.
(vii) You must, if we are adjudged to have, or if we accept, liability for a claim that you make, assign to us any rights that you may have against any of our servants, agents or suppliers which is in any way
responsible for the failure of your holiday or any death or personal injury you may suffer. You must also cooperate with us in any claim we choose to bring against any third party which we, in our discretion, deem to be so responsible.
(viii) Other than as set out above, and as is detailed elsewhere in these booking conditions, we shall have no legal liability whatsoever to you for any loss, damage, personal injury or death which you suffer arising directly or indirectly from any aspect of your holiday.
(ix) Where a flight ticket is downgraded or a flight cancelled, delayed, or boarding is denied by any carrier in circumstances which would entitle you to compensation, then you are obliged to claim the appropriate sums pursuant to those Regulations from the carrier. Any sums received by you in this respect constitute the full amount of your entitlement to compensation for all matters flowing from the carrier’s actions. If, for any reason, you do not claim against the carrier and make a claim for compensation from us, we will not consider your claim until such time as you have made a complete assignment to us of any
rights you have against the carrier.

13. LATE BOOKINGS
We emphasise the importance of making a booking at the earliest opportunity, because of the small group nature of our tours.
For bookings received within 6 weeks of departure we reserve the right to pass on any extra costs incurred. For bookings received within 6 weeks of departure the Contract between the Company and the Client comes into existence once full payment has been made and received by Into India.

ISSUE DATE: August 2007
IntoIndia Ltd.
Registered Office: Ladies Island, Monaincha, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary, Ireland.