no forced shopping

Unless we met you at the airport, you will have been attacked by people trying to sell you things before you reach your tour. It ends while you are with us as we have a "no-forced shopping" policy.

walking tours of the real Varanasi

Although we can give tours on architecture and history like other travel agencies, we find most people want to walk through the community here in the present and see how everyday people are living their lives.

responsible tourism

Groovy Tours staff all work part-time doing research and community activism. We practice sustainable tourism for the sake of both our clients and our community.

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Groovy Tours in the news

Raghvendra Upadhyay “Nandan”, a tourist guide working with Groovy Tours exposed scam in ticketing at Sarnath, Varanasi. He had been noticing this scam for really long time and he finally decided to expose the scam by taking help of CNN IBN tv channel. As an impact of his report all of the corrupt government officers [...]