A small team with a specific purpose — building ground itineraries for South Asia that are designed around the traveller, not the template. Every person here has a name, a defined role, and a direct relationship with the work.
ASTA Member
American Society of Travel Advisors
Chief Travel Advisor
Curates Travel Experiences
20+ Years on the Ground
India · Nepal · Bhutan · Sri Lanka
CA Licensed Seller of Travel
Reg. No. 2163233-70
Ground-Only Specialists
No flights · No packages
Chief Travel Advisor | ASTA Member | 20+ Years South Asia Experience
Dipti Kapadia has spent more than twenty years building a single, precise expertise: the design of ground itineraries for India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka that create experiences rather than checklists. She is Chief Travel Advisor — a designation awarded by The Travel Institute to advisors who meet rigorous professional and ethical standards — and a member of ASTA, the American Society of Travel Advisors, the professional body that holds advisors to the highest standards of practice in the industry. These are not decorative credentials. They represent a commitment that every client can hold her to.
Behind the credentials is something harder to qualify but more important: two decades of direct, accumulated ground knowledge across South Asia. Dipti has walked the ghats at Varanasi in the hour before the city wakes. She has timed the light at Amber Fort in ways that no itinerary template captures. She knows which monastery in Bhutan opens its Tsechu to visitors before the coach tours arrive, which teahouse route in Nepal carries the silence that makes the Himalayas feel personal, and which afternoon in Sri Lanka’s hill country — if placed correctly in the week — becomes the moment the whole trip meant something.
She does not book flights. She does not sell packages. She builds the complete day-by-day architecture of a journey, from the first conversation to the last morning before departure — and at full-service tiers, she remains personally available throughout the journey itself. Not a call centre. Not a support ticket. The specific person who designed your itinerary.
She founded Daffodils Travel on a belief that the global diaspora, and every traveller drawn to South Asia, deserves an advisor who understands both the geography and the meaning. Who knows that a first return to ancestral villages in Gujarat is not the same journey as a honeymoon in Kerala. Who never asks what do you want to see — only what do you want to feel when you arrive.
Co-Founder, Daffodils Travel | South Asia Ground Operations
Verified Partner Network — 4 Countries
Every itinerary Dipti designs has to actually work. The driver who arrives precisely when the train departs. The houseboat confirmed on the quiet channel rather than the tourist corridor. The hotel room that is forest-facing rather than parking-facing — in writing, verified, before the client boards their flight. The 4am departure transfer that is not merely listed on a document but arranged, briefed, confirmed, and tracked. That is Dhaval Kapadia’s responsibility — and it is the difference between a beautifully planned trip and a beautifully delivered one.
As Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Daffodils Travel, Dhaval oversees the ground operations, partner relationships, and logistical coordination that transform an approved itinerary into a seamless experience. Over more than twenty years, he has built and continuously maintained a vetted network of ground partners across India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka — relationships developed through direct experience, regularly reviewed, and held to the same standards of care that Daffodils Travel’s clients are promised. This network is one of the most significant assets the business holds. It is the reason that when something changes on the ground — and in South Asia, something always will — Daffodils Travel resolves it before the client is aware a problem existed.
South Asia travel requires a depth of contingency thinking that most advisors underestimate. Monsoon-season road closures. Last-minute availability changes. Local permit rule updates. Festival crowd variables that shift by the year. Dhaval’s role is to anticipate those variables before the client encounters them and to maintain the ground relationships that make rapid resolution possible when they cannot be avoided.
His operating philosophy is direct: when a client has for this trip, trusted Daffodils Travel to deliver it, and arrived expecting the experience they were promised — operational failure is not an inconvenience. It is a breach of trust. His work is invisible when it functions correctly. That is the standard he holds it to.
A small operation by design. Every person here has a defined role, a direct relationship with the work, and a name the client can put to a face. No department handoffs. No anonymous support queues.
Creative Director
As Creative Director, Mitesh owns the brand's full visual and written identity — website, documents and photography — so the care shown in the presentation matches the care in the itinerary.
Website Designer
As Website Designer, Shreyas builds and maintains every digital surface, from booking flows to load speed, so the first half-second of a page already proves the care that follows it.
Head of Marketing
As Head of Marketing, Ruturaj shapes how Daffodils surfaces in search, social and email, finding travellers mid-plan and staying with them, with specificity over volume, until they are ready.
Customer Service Manager
As Customer Service Manager, Milca handles every message from first inquiry to pre-departure — confirmations, documents and reassurances — so the journey feels looked after from the start.
To build ground itineraries for India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka that are specific to the traveller, not the template — and to deliver every aspect of the experience with the honesty, precision, and personal care that a journey of this significance deserves.
To be the most trusted name in bespoke South Asia ground travel for the Indian-American community and beyond — known not for how many trips we book, but for what those trips mean to the people who take them.
These are not aspirations. They are operational commitments — things that are true on every engagement, at every service tier, for every client.
We tell you what is included and what is not — before you commit, not after. We publish our service fees and charges openly, with nothing left to discover later. A client who fully understands how we work is one who trusts the outcome. We never trade short-term comfort for long-term confidence, or let a pleasant answer stand in for an honest
Clients tell us where they want to go. We listen for what they do not say — the pace that needs a quiet afternoon, the milestone that deserves a private dinner, the photography interest that needs an early start. Every itinerary responds to what is said and, just as carefully, to what is not. The best planning is sustained attention, not information processing.
Four countries. Thorough knowledge of each. Every recommendation in every itinerary is based on direct, current, ground-level knowledge — not aggregated data, not a partner brochure, not a review aggregate. Deep expertise in one geography is not a limitation. It is the foundation of everything we recommend and hold each suggestion to before it reaches you.
We travel to countries where tourism carries real consequences for communities and environments. Every itinerary is built with awareness of that weight — the ground operators we choose, the communities we include, the practices we will not endorse. Responsible travel is not an upgrade we offer. It is the standard from which every itinerary begins.
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Tell us where you want to go. Tell us what you want to feel when you get there.
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