Travel, beautifully curated.

Dubai to the Maldives, Rajasthan to Kerala — designed the way a filmmaker frames a shot. With patience, light and feeling.

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Krabi · Thailand

Our story

It started behind a camera.

For years, Manoj Menon travelled with advertising crews — photographers, filmmakers, hotels, resorts and destination brands. His work took him behind the beautiful images people associate with travel.

Something else happened along the way. He began finding the places beyond the frame. The conversations. The roads. The food. The small hotels. The corners no brochure ever mentioned.

Somewhere between photographing destinations and travelling through them, an idea took shape.

Today that eye plans journeys across eighteen countries and every corner of India — from Dubai and Bali to Ladakh and Lakshadweep. Not a list of sights. A journey worth experiencing, and a story worth bringing home.

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Manoj Menon at a wooden viewpoint over misty tea country Manoj Menon · founder
21C Signature Journeys

Not packages. Journeys we would take ourselves.

  1. Signature № 01

    Islands and Long Boats

    Bangkok · Phuket · Krabi — 6 days · Thailand Limestone islands, long-tail boats, and a pool that ends at the horizon. View the journey
  2. Signature № 02

    A Week Under the Italian Sun

    Rome · Florence · Tuscany — 7 days · Europe Old streets, long lunches, and the light painters crossed the world for. View the journey
  3. Signature № 03

    The Golden Triangle

    Delhi · Agra · Jaipur — 5 days · North India Marble at sunrise, forts at dusk, and the oldest streets in the country. View the journey
  4. Signature № 04

    Kerala, Slowly

    Fort Kochi · Munnar · Marari — 6 days · Our home ground Misty mornings, winding mountain roads, local kitchens, quiet evenings by the water. View the journey

Every Signature Journey is designed or personally selected by 21st Century Tours — never copied from a rate sheet. Each one can be shaped around you.

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Travel your way

How do you want to feel?

Most journeys don't begin with a destination. They begin with a feeling. Start there — we'll find the place.

A quiet veranda over misty hills — tea, a book, nowhere to be Slow Down Quiet mountains, wellness, beaches and peaceful stays. A couple watching the sun set from a beach shack, Goa Fall in Love Private escapes, beautiful stays and romantic experiences. Three generations over a banana-leaf lunch at a Kerala homestay Bring Everyone Family journeys designed around every age at the table. A cook stirring a clay pot while a traveller watches, Kerala home kitchen Taste the Place Local kitchens, markets, cafés and regional food worth travelling for. A jeep stopped on a misty ghat road, two travellers looking over the valley Go Beyond Road journeys, hidden places, nature and gentle adventure. Friends laughing round a long table under festoon lights, hills beyond Celebrate Birthdays, anniversaries, reunions and milestone journeys.
Coming to India

India, through local eyes.

Rajasthan to the North East, Ladakh to Lakshadweep. We live here, we have filmed here, and we know the right season, the right pace and the right table to book.

Explore India journeys India Gate at dusk · New Delhi
Going out into the world

The world, thoughtfully planned.

Dubai, Singapore, Bali, Vietnam, Georgia, Europe and more. We have travelled these roads ourselves, and we know what makes a journey work — and what quietly ruins one.

Explore international journeys old town at blue hour · Europe
Where we take you

From Dubai to the Maldives.From Ladakh to Lakshadweep.

Every journey is built to order, so this is not a catalogue — it is simply where we plan most often. If the place you have in mind isn't here, ask us anyway.

Tell us where you're dreaming of

International customised packages18

  • Dubai
  • Thailand
  • Malaysia
  • Singapore
  • Bali
  • Vietnam
  • Cambodia
  • Philippines
  • Sri Lanka
  • Maldives
  • Nepal
  • Bhutan
  • Azerbaijan
  • Georgia
  • Armenia
  • Almaty
  • Tashkent
  • Europe

India domestic packages15

  • Delhi – Agra – Jaipur
  • Rajasthan
  • Amritsar
  • Shimla – Kulu – Manali
  • Jim Corbett – Nainital
  • Leh – Ladakh
  • Kashmir
  • North East
  • Meghalaya
  • Goa
  • Hyderabad
  • Coorg
  • Kerala
  • Andaman
  • Lakshadweep
  • Domestic
  • International
  • Cruises
  • Group
  • Corporate
  • Incentive trips
Member IATTE — Indian Association of Travel & Tourism Experts Kerala Travel Mart
21C Stories · Through our eyes

A travel journal, not a brochure.

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A Theyyam performer in red before a lit temple at dusk, north Kerala North Kerala · dusk
Kerala · Field notes

The Night a Theyyam Begins

Drums before dawn, a face painted for hours, and a village that has kept the same appointment for four hundred years.

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A couple watching the sunset from a Goa beach shack Goa · The places we return to

Goa, After the Season

 A lane winding through autumn vineyards and cypress, Tuscany Italy · A season, observed

What Tuscany Feels Like in Autumn

Written by the people who plan the journeys — new stories with every season.

Design my journey

Tell us where you want to go. Or simply how you want to travel.

You don't need a destination to begin. "Seven days, two children, somewhere relaxing" is more than enough. A travel curator will design around it and call you back.

A traveller with a notebook and coffee, looking out at a lake and mountains every journey starts on a blank page

I'm dreaming of , travelling for about . Most of all, we want .

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