"You will hate India before you fall in love with it," a maharaja told us on one of our earliest visits. In fact, it didn't take long to fall. And ever since, India has held a special place in our hearts at Brown + Hudson. We've returned to this country more often than any other, driven by a desire to reconnect with a culturally chaotic, historically eclectic, visually phenomenal, thoroughly exciting wonderland.

Among the musts for many travellers are Delhi, the magnificent Taj Mahal and Rajasthan with its royal cities of Jaipur, Jodhpur and Udaipur. Your list may also include Bombay (as the locals still call Mumbai), the holy city of Varanasi or the tranquil backwater of Kerala. We're supremely well connected in all these places and anywhere else you're curious to explore. You can play elephant polo as guests of a maharaja, trace the Narmada River by hot-air balloon, fly by helicopter to the holy mountain of Nanda Devi. Or maybe you'd like to raft down the mighty Ganges from its source to join a sacred Hindu aarti ceremony along the banks.

India becomes more interesting the further you venture off the beaten path – and as devoted contrarians, this is where we excel. How about the Kumaon, enjoying panoramic views from a four-room luxury hideaway deep in the Himalayas? Or the remote states of Sikkim and Ladakh ("Little Tibet"), where you encounter rarely glimpsed sides of Indian culture yet travel in wonderful comfort.

Once we know your interests, we can outline as many possibilities as there are verses in the Ramayana (though we'll stop short of reciting them in Sanskrit). Try snowboarding in Kashmir, browse the Pushkar camel fair ("We're just looking, thanks"), camp for a magical night in the Thar Desert, take an elephant safari into the Kaziranga Tiger Reserve, cheer on your favourite cricketers at the historic Chennai pitch, catch a Bollywood movie at Bombay's iconic art deco cinema. Or if "once in a lifetime" is more your thing, come for the Kumbh Mela Festival, held every dozen years, and we'll try to arrange an audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

If your head is spinning, well, that's just a foretaste of the whole Indian experience. Our job is to craft a trip that's uniquely yours out of all that crazy, chaotic diversity. It's a task we love almost as much as we know you'll love India.