About Us
Our Story
With over 40 years of combined experience, our team carefully curates journeys that go beyond the surface, offering immersive, one-of-a-kind experiences that connect you deeply with the cultures you visit. We take pride in providing honest, thoughtful advice, ensuring each trip is tailored to your interests and crafted with authenticity.
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As strong advocates of responsible tourism, we prioritise working with local communities, independent accommodations, small businesses, and cooperatives. Our approach fosters respectful and meaningful interactions, while ensuring that the benefits of tourism directly support the people and cultures that make each journey so special. With sustainability at our core, we strive to make thoughtful, responsible travel both accessible and impactful, leaving a positive imprint on both our travellers and the places they explore.
India is a living, breathing myriad of cultures, woven with deep-rooted traditions, everyday encounters, and moments of serendipity. Our itineraries are designed to embrace this richness, offering experiences that allow you to engage with the country in a truly genuine and thought provoking way.
Our Team
Siân Warren
Siân is the Founding Director of India Woven Travel (previously South Asia Uncovered) and has extensive experience with travel across India, having spent nearly 16 years exploring all corners of the subcontinent. From humble beginnings as a backpacker and volunteer, to working with some of the best-known luxury UK travel operators including Audley Travel and Greaves India.
She has a deep emotional connection to India and has spent time living with local families away from the tourist trail as well as attending night school in London to learn Hindi. Siân started her career in India travel to pursue her dream of sharing her love of India with others, with this culminating in her creating her own specialist tour operator. Now Siân spends her time curating unique tailormade India itineraries and escorting group tours that are close to her heart - focusing on storytelling, communities and human connection.
She has used her broad knowledge of the country to help create hundreds of wonderful trips for individuals, couples, families, journalists and a few famous faces. She has first-hand, up-to-date knowledge of special independent places to stay and has a particular expertise in crafting unique and niche experiences for guests.
Tuhina Sharma
Tuhina is a travel enthusiast and has traveled extensively throughout India and is closely familiar with the cultural, religious and off-beat patterns of the diverse country that she calls home. She is a seasoned trip leader, escorting individuals and small private groups with hands on knowledge of the cultural and historical beats of each location.
Her years of working in the industry has also allowed her to build key relationships with some of the best hoteliers and guides across the country to ensure guests have the best possible experience. When not escorting guests in person, Tuhina works hard behind the scenes of our tailormade trips, ensuring that everything works smoothly and she is always on hand to help guests on the ground.
Pravin Dangera
Pravin, a native of Bhuj, is an experienced tour leader with deep expertise in Gujarat and Rajasthan. Passionate about responsible tourism, he is dedicated to sharing the authentic culture of Kutch in particular with his travellers in a meaningful and sustainable way. His commitment to preserving and showcasing Kutch’s traditions ensures that visitors gain a deeper understanding of its vibrant communities while promoting respectful and immersive travel experiences.
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With extensive knowledge of Gujarat’s rich heritage, Pravin has led numerous cultural tours and collaborated on campaigns with the Gujarat Tourism Board. He has also worked closely with writers and filmmakers, including those from Discovery Channel and the BBC, helping to capture the essence of the region.
Charity Support
At India Woven Travel, we’re proud to support the Agariya community, salt farmers who live and work in beautiful yet harsh landscapes of the Little Rann of Kutch in Gujarat. Salt production is one of the major occupations of the people living in this region, with many of them counted among the poorest inhabitants of Kutch. The Agariyas produce the salt that ends up in kitchens across the country, yet their own lives remain on the margins.
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For every guest who books a tailormade trip or joins one of our group journeys, we donate £15 to our charity partner in Ahmedabad. These funds go directly to supporting the Agriyas, including to the Rann Shala schools, mobile classrooms housed in old state buses that drive deep into the Rann to reach the children of salt workers. With 19 buses on the move, these schools offer more than education, they bring dignity, visibility, and a future to children born into one of India’s toughest environments.
"Thank you so much for an amazing experience. It has changed all of our lives, we learn't so much and we are grateful to you to meet such kind and remarkable people. You made the trip very special, a huge thank you"
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Trish, Sue, Kate & Joh - Rajasthan 2024