Spiritual Journeys, Inc:  DS at Taj 4.jpg (68946 bytes)Deepak Singh 2.JPG (36395 bytes) celebrates ten years as a dedicated, known and proven provider of custom and pre-packaged tours exploring spirituality and spiritual sites in India, Thailand and Cambodia.

Deepak Singh, the owner-operator of SJI, was born in New Delhi, India, and worked and lived in North & South India, England and the USA pursuing a career as an engineer. After working as an engineer for over twenty years, he began pursuing his passion to foster the personal and cultural growth of others.

In 1993, Deepak helped launch more than 150 products related to alternative (Ayurveda) healthcare products and set up teacher-training and certification programas President of several companies owned by the author and public-speaker, Dr. Deepak Chopra. He has promoted and managed more than 50 multi-day, multi-hundred people conferences and then worked to facilitate the cultural and spiritual growth of individuals by arranging discretionary travel services to Cambodia, India and Thailand for hundreds of people from tens of countries.

He read mechanical engineering at the University of Manchester in England and was a Chartered Engineer. He loves to teach Indian cooking, and is on the Board of Directors of the New England branch of Pacific Asia Travel Association, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Heritage of Arts of Southasia for whom he has helped raise tens of thousands of dollars.

He has thus been wholy immersed in aspects of spirituality since 1993 and has been a practicing meditator since 1981.SJ Desk 1.jpg (95300 bytes)

SJI works with the leading travel and tour companies in both India and Thailand. Both companies are extremely well regarded for their professionalism and track record of excellent service. They have been chosen for their strengths and attributes. These large companies possess both the breadth of knowledge to give confidence to the traveler and specific knowledge fine tuned to our requirements when the traveler requires answers not available in guide books.

Our Partner in India Our Partner in India is a niche incoming tour operator based in New Delhi with branch offices in 13 important locations in India and Nepal and 20 associate offices in India. They are a preferred partner for leading tour operators selling India in Europe, UK, Americas & Australasia because of their unique services encompassing India, Nepal & Sri Lanka. Their extensive research on heritage hotels in India, tea estates and Home Stays in Kerala, colonial buildings & hideouts in Himalayas, small elegant hotels, forest bungalows, unique accommodations and charming buildings with amazing character have helped us offer you the most extraordinary tours. They have won numerous industry and government accolades and awards.

They are a part of India’s 2nd biggest destination management company with 345 employees, resulting in an extraordinary buying power allowing us to not only pass our low prices to our clients, but acquire the best selection of services such as guides, escorts and vehicles from independent service providers. Such a force in this industry is of great value in smaller places we visit where supply is limited, all-in-all making the tour for our clients exceptional and memorable. They have own their own fleet of vehicles, and work with independent contractors by training their drivers, help them upgrade and maintain the vehicles.

Apart from the normal tours they manage for us, our partner has a separate division for luxury tours catering to some of our clients who want nothing but the best, controlled by a dedicated cell ensuring smooth handling of complex tours for the most demanding clients accustomed to the best the world can provide in ultimate style. Services include top-end hotel suites in breathtaking locales, private aircraft, golf in the best golf resorts, private visits to the galleries of contemporary Indian artists & designers, specific shopping, side trips, theatres, live performances, fine-dining in the most exclusive restaurant and fixing massages in the best spas. We can cater for special celebrations such as a marriage in an old palace or a birthday in a romantic beach resort. For every such guest, there is a personal concierge that takes care of her or him 24 hours a day. We are the only company in India to offer this service.

Our partner in Thailand has been in the travel business for the last 40 years, while the parent company is 100 years old. They are the leading tour operator in Thailand and one of the most-well known in South East Asia. They employ a team of multilingual expatriate managers and a staff force of 300 in Thailand with a network in South East Asia which consists of 20 offices in Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Vietnam and Yunnan. Last year they catered for 200,000 clients from 80 countries. Their own fleet of luxury coaches and limousines contribute to the smooth handling of groups. Long standing relationships, local offices and high volumes with business partners ensure quality of service not available elsewhere.SJ bus 1.jpg (94765 bytes)

What We Have Achieved: As a recognized tour operator, SJI has arranged and managed travel for more than five hundred people from more than thirty countries who have visited India and Thailand, either traveling as individuals, in small private parties or being a part of pre-packaged tours.

What We Offer: Our core strength are packaged and custom spiritual tours to India and Thailand, while arranging individual travel also. We package unique and customized tours on architecture, arts, wild-life, palaces, music, religion, etc. These can be used for fund raising activities, tours led by speakers, specific tours for societies. We have access to eloquent academicians to lead tours or who can offer discourses on spirituality or professions such as music, architecture, the arts, etc. In addition to travel management, we Manage Events in India.