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Tornos is a tour company that owes its success to Lucknow, thus it presents a resource site to tell the world about this beautiful, but forgotten city. Our endeavour is to project this northern Indian city that gave us immense support, love and courage in our start-up days.

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  • Evening Culinary Walk

    When in Lucknow, you ought to indulge in sinful act of eating the rich Awadhi Cuisine at the roadside eateries that promise a taste that one can not imagine in the up-market restaurants of Lucknow or outside. We at Tornos have planned a Culinary Walk of Lucknow by hand-picking just the best for you. more… Book now →

  • Heritage Walk

    Lucknow is not just any other city, but a chapter that folds and unfolds itself each time one visits this epicenter of culture. Our Heritage Walk is just a translation of this, taking you into the lanes and by-lanes of Chowk, exploring the unexplored and explaining how vast a history, this city of superlatives holds. More on Heritage Walk… Book now →

  • ‘Beyond Kebab’ Walk

    Vegetarian cuisine in Lucknow is as rich as its non-vegetarian fare and held equally in high regard for its recipes and age-old traditions. This is yet another walking tour at lunch, but looks at Lucknow’s vegetarian fare beyond its stereotype Kebab Image. Check this out… Book now →

  • Victorian Walk

    The Victorian era was a period of peace, prosperity and refined sensibilities for Britain. This was a period of Mutiny of 1857, that changed the way Indians and Britons lived, worked and thought. Hazratganj has witnessed all of this from the Victorian through the Edwardian times and then onto the 2nd World War and further. More…  Book now →

  • Wajid Ali Shah Walk

    On this walking tour we explore the Kaiserbagh Palace Complex, reconstruct the area with the help of old pictures and maps and as a cherry on the cake, we treat you over a cup of tea at the Kotwara House, that is a small part of Kaiserbagh, now an abode of the film maker Muzaffar Ali. Check this out Book now →

  • Sightseeing Tour

    We pick you up in a car along with a tour guide, conduct this 6 hour guided tour of the city, visiting the monuments in the city including the British Residency, Asfi Imambara, Husainabad Imambara, Dilkusha & La Martiniere. The car picks you up from your hotel and drops you back to your hotel in the city. More… Book now →

  • Revisiting Lucknow of 1857-58

    ‘Revisiting Lucknow of 1857-58’ tour takes you through the routes followed by Havelock, Outarm and Colin Campbell. We visit the areas that were in focus during the siege of Lucknow, we understand how this bloodiest siege progressed to a conclusive end, but not without sacrifices from both the warring fronts. more…

  • Revisiting Cawnpore of 1857

    On this very exclusive curated tour – ‘Revisiting Cawnpore of 1857’, we take you through the areas that were the focus of the siege, we try and understand how this bloodiest siege progressed to a conclusive end, when General Havelock freed Cawnpore of the shadows of the rebels. more…

  • Tea at The Tornos Studio

    Read from the collection of books on the uprising of 1857. Tornos Studio houses the best collection of books on this subject and is indeed a great place to spend your afternoon reading from these. more…

  • Curated Dining at Kotwara House

    Dining at Kotwara House in Lucknow is always a privileged pleasure. Home of Muzaffar & Meera Ali curates exclusive menu for the day and the food is prepared by their ancestral family cooks. Explore the Kotwara cuisine that majorly draws its inspiration from Awadhi and Mughlai feast. More…  Reserve →

  • Tea with Nawab

    How awesome it would be to meet a descendant of the Nawabs over an afternoon tea, talk to him about all that he has seen changing over the years, know about his family and experience the etiquettes, the mannerism and the art of speech that is mastered by Nawab himself. more…

  • La Martiniere Experiences

    Experience the joy of the school life at La Martiniere and understand the 700 acres of estate. Envy the fact that you are not a Martinan. Vive La Martiniere !…

    La Martiniere is no less than a living museum, where each corner has a story to be narrated. Decode… Book now →

  • Dine with Maharaja (Family Meal)

    Dine with The Maharaja and his family in Lucknow, at his city palace. An opportunity to enjoy a live Kathak performance or learn some secret family recipes from Awadhi menu. This is the only Victorian style British influenced city palace in Lucknow. check this out…

  • COQUINA – experiential dining

    Coquina is a concept of a small experiential home kitchen that specialises in local cuisine in small portions. Guests get a chance to learn about this Passion Cuisine, cook for themselves under expert supervision and learn the art of cooking an Awadhi Meal. more…

  • Curated Dining at Sheesh Mahal

    Sheesh Mahal was home to the Nawabs of Awadh, though dilapidated and almost all of it reconstructed, what remains is the originality in their inherited recipes and the pride that the family takes in cooking everything themselves in their family kitchens with minimal help of servants and cooks.  More… Reserve →
     

  • Kotwara Insight

    A visit to Kotwara House (by Appointment) is in itself a revealing experience of sorts. Kotwara House is Lucknow abode of the legendary film maker, fashion designer, painter, poet, architect or rather call them ‘A couple with many feathers in their cap of creativity’, Raja Muzaffar & Meera Ali. more… Reserve →

  • Village Cuisine Experience

    On this tour we take you to a countryside into a traditional Village, where you unlearn all that is urban and learn this traditional ethnic cooking from scratch, cook under supervision and enjoy a limited but a very unique cuisine that urbanized call ‘luxury’ know more, learn more…

  • Kite Flying

    We take you on a rooftop, where you learn the art of flying kites and winning the match. You learn the vernacular dictum of this game and indulge in a real match. Kite flying enthusiasts of the city gather at one place and mesmerize you with old anecdotes connected to kite-flying. more…

  • Thursday Sufi Sojourn

    Your guide will explain about this faith. Offer your respect to the grave inside this shrine, by way of ‘Chadar Poshi’. Also enjoy a seated session with the Qawals (devotional Sufi singers), while our expert translates the song that is played in the honour of the Sufi saint. more…

  • Mokshdayni Ayodhya Tours

    We bring you two handcrafted curated experiential tours to Ayodhya, that are bundled with some great experiences including a river-side walk, a one hour boat travel from Faizabad to Ayodhya, an exclusive Aarti, experiential lunch, tea on the boat and a lot more. know more…

  • Colourful Dhobi Ghat

    “They spend their lives trying to break a huge rock with a flimsy piece of cloth” It is rather so true to the Indian washer man who rhythmically beats clothes on the rocks placed on the river banks to clean them and reach your wardrobe. Washer-men colour the banks of river Gomti. more…

  • Golf in Lucknow

    On this tour you not only play a game of golf, but also enjoy some bird watching with vivid varieties of birds that flock the area. Also watch the little ones go to school at La Martiniere and watch the boys assemble for their morning assembly that is indeed a pleasant sight to behold. more…

  • Oriental Walk

    Not only that Lucknow is architecturally awesome but also well planned, quite like the way a capital should be. On this walking tour we not only explore the main landmarks of the Nawabi heritage, but also detail some nooks and corners in the periphery without which history of Lucknow is just incomplete. More…

  • Shophistory Walk

    Walk in this this market will show you some of its bustling bazaars, that are so very exciting to understand and to shop at. Refugee Market is known to have given refuge to the business community from partitioned Pakistan and Swadeshi Market so very religiously stopped selling foreign goods when Mahatma Gandhi gave a call. more…

  • Threads of Lucknow

    How awesome it is to learn about this craft from the men and women at a designer’s studio on a half-day hands-on experiential sojourn. Each guest gets a personal embroidery kit to learn the craft, a talk is delivered by a designer and to top it all, an authentic home-cooked Rastogi Lunch. Know More

  • Residency Reconstructed

    On this 3 hours walking tour, we reconstruct the ruins within the complex, with the help of some rare pictures, building plans and maps. Also understand the events of 1857-58, with a focused reference to the Residency complex. More… Book now →

  • Luckluscious – Learn a dish

    How about learning a dish from Lucknow, in Lucknow by a Lucknowite ? be it making a kabab or korma. Just one dish mastered to perfection. We give you a chance to do this at any local kitchen. More…

  • Ram Vivah in Ayodhya

    Just a 2 hours drive from Lucknow takes us to Ayodhya, an ancient religious city where Lord Rama was born. This city is deeply rooted to its traditions and customs, one of it being Ram Vivah or the Wedding of Lord Rama with Sita. This actually is ‘not to be missed’ event in Ayodhya. More…

  • Taste of Labour

    We at Tornos have learnt to appreciate cuisine in all its forms and labourers’ cuisine being one of them – very basic, but a hearty meal that tastes quite different due to labour being one of its ingredients. We will take you to a construction site and you get to experience the dinner preparation just after the day’s labour. More…

  • Learn Calligraphy

    On this experience we take you through a four hours step-by-step session in Urdu or Arabic using modern day instruments such as sketch pens, fountain pens, pencils etc. A session typically will provide a hands-on experience to participating guests. More…

  • Grasse of India – Kannauj

    A very exclusive experience around the perfume industry of Kannauj, as a great introduction and appreciation of the traditional art of perfume making, that has survived all the modern interventions in this field only to produce the best of fragrances. More…

  • Weeping Lucknow – Muharram

    We take you on a curated tour of Lucknow’s Muhharam, where one experiences, how the city has maintained the legacy of this mourning custom from the Nawabi era till date and that too unchanged. More…

  • Un Morceau de France

    On this tour we discover the French connection with Lucknow and unearth some unknown facts that relate well to the subject. French inspired the cultural fabric of Lucknow and even got inspired themselves. Reciprocal influences can be seen in the areas of art, culture, heritage, lifestyle, architecture and even food. More…

  • Bells, Beats & Ballet

    Kathak is one of the eight classical dance forms of India. Its famous three ‘gharanas’ or the schools are Lucknow, Jaipur and Banaras, where Lucknow is considered to be the most superior of these. We bring you three options to chose Kathak Appreciation workshop. more…

  • Curated Dining at Chak House

    Kashmiris in Lucknow, just like any other community, have had their own unique history, traditions and cooking styles which blended well with the Awadhi culture, giving rise to a very distinct culinary tradition in Lucknow, known as Kashmiri-Awadhi cuisine, which was nowhere to be found other than in Lucknow. more…

  • Aristocratic Home Dining

    Raja of Itaunja, is a sophisticated gentleman who lives in the city palace of Itaunja with his family. Enjoy an engaging conversation and a typical dinner here which is curated by Raja Sahib and his wife themselves, and includes some dishes, recipes of which are a closely guarded family secret, yet they would be happy to divulge. more… 

Article Of The Month

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Nawab Asaf-ud-Daulah shifted his base from Faizabad to Lucknow, making Lucknow his capital – along with him he got a large group of Kashmiris both Muslims and Hindu and settled them in Lucknow. This was the largest group of Kashmiris who traveled out of Kashmir to anywhere in North India then.

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Niche Products by Tornos

Tornos offers some very niche and experiential products to discerning travelers. Some of our unique offers are our array of walking tours, city tours that range from general orientation sightseeing tours to a very exhaustive tours such as Lucknow Plan. Some of our curated tours includes, Indian mutiny of 1857 focused around Lucknow and Kanpur or a tour of churches & cemeteries or for that matter a tour of Ayodhya that has been very carefully crafted to include the element of interpretations rather than pure religion. You may also choose from our celebration tours as well, such as Eid Tour or a Ramadan Night Tour. Explore our website to enjoy our offers and a learning experience.

Walter Burley Griffin Tour

Griffin died in early 1937, at King George’s Medical College in Lucknow, leaving behind a legacy of some great works that survived and helped us in Lucknow to boast of a very strong Australian connection. Walter Burley Griffin is buried in Lucknow and some of his works still survive, giving an insight to an architect who designed the Australian capital Canberra. Tornos conducts a well researched, a special tour woven around Walter Burley Griffin’s Lucknow, with special visits to surviving buildings and sites where he built. A visit to his restored grave is also a part of this tour. This tour may also be merged with other interests and sightseeing tours in Lucknow. More…

Grave Tending – search, reconstruct, adopt

We at Tornos understand the sentiments of the families of the buried and offer our services as Grave Tenders. Since 1997 we have had a specialized research team that locates these graves on request, with certain mandatory inputs (we have located about 113 graves) and now can adopt these on behalf of the families abroad. Read…

Lecture Tours by Tornos – Lecture Insight

At Tornos we have a panel of experts drawn from different quarters, who are specialists in their own fields by virtue of their interest, reading, profession or experience. These lecturers come in as a Guest Speakers for special interest tourists, to talk to tourist groups or FITs on the subject for about two hours. This interactive lecture can be arranged over a casual afternoon tea or an evening cocktail, to enhance the academic value of the tour. More…

Chapaiya – birth place of Lord Swaminarayan

Its singular claim to fame is as the birthplace of Lord Swaminarayan. Making this village a pilgrim place for his followers world wide. Akshardham temples in Ahmedabad & Delhi (New Delhi) are dedicated to Swaminarayan. Gujratis are the main followers of this sect and regard Chappiya as a very sacred place to visit. More..

Dudhwa Tiger Reserve

Dudhwa National Park is home to Tigers, Rhinoceros, Elephant, Swamp Deer, Sambar, Cheetal, Hog Deer, Kakar, Wild Pig, Blue Bull, Rhesus Monkey, Langur, Sloth Bear, Porcupine, Otter, Monitor lizard, Turtles, Python, Mugger, Gharial etc. Among all this we just about guarantee sighting of the one horned rhino. Click Here To Know More…

The Tornos Club

At Tornos we celebrate intellect. As a part of this celebration we have created a few clubs of like-minded individuals who share, learn and contribute to the subject of their choice. We meet regularly at The Tornos Studio and at The Tornos Terrace to experience the joys of intellect and talk about our favourite subjects. Enrich yourself intellectually !

Meal Planning – We plan what you eat and where

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Meal planning is an art, specially when you are planning a meal from the a-la-carte menu of a specialty cuisine which may not contain your native food items. Though a lot of description goes in about the preparation and a sort of showcased recipe too is a part of the menu book of all good restaurants, but seldom do they rate their own stuff, putting you always at a risk of ordering some lunatic stuff and ending your meal with a negative impression. Know More…


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