, writes...




I have been a regular visitor to India since 1984. I first took a
group in 1992, when I was a minister in the Church of England.
That was an "interfaith pilgrimage" for the Waltham Forest All
Faiths Group. The journey attracted commendation from the
Archbishop of Canterbury, and other religious leaders, and was
widely reported in the Indian press.

Later I set up Soul of India Tours because I wanted other
people to enjoy some of the same kinds of experience of India
as I had had. India is created by its religious and spiritual history,
and that history is still alive today. You have to be prepared to
take that seriously, and to meet the country on its own terms.

So we aim to be sympathetic and friendly to the country. We visit
places that are important to the people whose country we are in,
and like them, we take our shoes off when we are walking on
holy ground.

Now, as well as organising Escorted Group Journeys and
Independent Travellers' itineraries, we are the leading provider
of tailormade pilgrimage and religious interest group travel to
India (see Your Tailormade Group). We have provided tours for
churches, education authorities, yoga groups and others,
including for instance:

• The World Community for Christian Meditation
• Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre
• Yoga and Health Magazine
• The United Religions Initiative UK
• Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
• The Diocese of Hereford.
  
  

Having been closely associated with Indus Tours and Travel Ltd. since the beginning, in January 2005 Soul of India tours took the formal step of becoming a division of Indus Tours and Travel Ltd.  The practical benefit of this for our travellers and customers is that Soul of India staff now work out of both offices, in Wolverhampton, and Harrow, and there is therefore a more seamless operation.

All tours continue to be operated under the protection of ATOL, ABTA and IATA.

The Soul of India team now consists of Kenneth Wilson, Yasin Zargar (Director, Indus Tours and Travel Ltd.), and Shawn Hendricks (Tours Manager).  See the contact us page for addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses.