If health permits, any elderly person can safely make plans of travelling in India. There are several services that are available for an elderly traveller in India. This is due to the fact that in this country, the local tourist population is invariably a cross section of all ages; with the seniors constituting a sizeable bulk. It comes from the Indian custom of travelling to holy places after having lived a full life of a family man, in order to cleanse one’s soul at the different Dhams or holy shrines. It also coincides with post-retirement leisure travel. Unique services such as palanquin bearers, may be availed of to reach holy places, atop high hills in the Himalayas, if age doesn’t permit trekking up a steep slope. Elderly people are also seen atop mules on their trek upwards to the shrine of Vaishno Devi in the state of Jammu & Kashmir.