We curate journeys.
You travel.

A travel curator starts with you, not a catalogue. You tell us where you want to go, what you are curious about, the pace that suits you, and the kind of places where you would feel at home at the end of a long day. We then design the journey around those answers, source the guides, drivers, hotels, and experiences through partners we have worked with for years, vetted against an exacting standard and known by name and track record, and look after every moving part from the moment you land to the moment you leave. You simply travel.

This is a different way of working. A booking agent will sell you what is convenient to package, and a tour operator will put you on a fixed group departure. We do neither. Our published itineraries reflect Mano's own judgment about the best way to see a region, the places worth the journey and the order worth seeing them in. If you want to adjust the pace, the focus, or the route, that conversation is always open. If you want to understand the model in more detail, we have written a plain explanation of what a curated tour actually is and how it differs from a package or a travel agent. If you have questions of your own, our frequently asked questions page covers who these journeys are for, how the process works, and why we believe it is a safe and sensible choice.

Coromandel Tours is led by Mano Chandra Dhas. He has spent more than fifty years in travel, including thirty-five based in the Persian Gulf, and founded this company in Bogotá in 2013. India is his country of origin; Colombia has been home for more than a decade. That foundation, and a curator's eye for the work and the people who do it, is what he brings to every client. The operation runs through a small network of partner operators in each destination, chosen personally by Mano and worked with by name and reputation. Every tour offered here has been selected on that basis.

The name has a history spanning more than two thousand years. The land of the Chola kings of southern India was known as Cholamandalam. When the Portuguese arrived in India, they corrupted the name to Coromandel, and the south-eastern coastline of India, the ancient Chola territory, became known as the Coromandel Coast.

The British were taken with the name too, giving it to four of their naval ships in succession, HMS Coromandel. One of those ships called at New Zealand, where the name was adopted for a town and a peninsula on the North Island of New Zealand, where it remains to this day.

Mano Chandra Dhas comes from the Coromandel Coast himself. When he founded the company in Bogotá in 2013, he brought the name with him, from the ancient coastline of the Chola kings to the Andes of South America.

We currently curate journeys in Colombia, Peru, India, and Nepal. The Persian Gulf, where Mano spent 35 years, will be added in due course.