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Trip Under is a free planner for underrated places: 150 destinations, 77 treks and sacred routes, each one named against the famous place it replaces. Every page shows what the bus, the bed, the food and the entry tickets really cost, in your currency, and links to the real operators so you book each piece yourself. No agency, no packages, no commission.
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- Gingee FortIndia · from ₹700 a dayinstead of another crowded fort
- Gokak FallsIndia · from ₹700 a dayinstead of a Niagara-shaped waterfall next to a still-running 19th-century cotton mill
- ShravanabelagolaIndia · from ₹700 a dayinstead of a 57-foot monolith, and one of Jainism's most important pilgrimage sites in the world
- MelkoteIndia · from ₹700 a dayinstead of a hilltop Vaishnavite town that Ramanujacharya himself lived in
- GokarnaIndia · from ₹800 a dayinstead of North Goa
- Rameswaram & MaduraiIndia · from ₹800 a dayinstead of Varanasi
- Badami, Aihole & PattadakalIndia · from ₹800 a dayinstead of a second day in Hampi
- Araku Valley & LambasingiIndia · from ₹800 a dayinstead of Ooty
- GandikotaIndia · from ₹800 a dayinstead of another Rajasthan fort
- Thanjavur & KumbakonamIndia · from ₹800 a dayinstead of Madurai
- YelagiriIndia · from ₹800 a dayinstead of Nandi Hills for the weekend
- Courtallam & TenkasiIndia · from ₹800 a dayinstead of a monsoon trip for when everywhere else is rained out
- Nong KhiawLaos · from ₹1,100 a dayinstead of Luang Prabang
- Ha Giang LoopVietnam · from ₹1,200 a dayinstead of Ha Long Bay
- Siwa OasisEgypt · from ₹1,200 a dayinstead of the Merzouga Sahara camps
- Ella & the Uva HighlandsSri Lanka · from ₹1,200 a dayinstead of squeezing hill country into a rushed one-night Kandy stopover on the standard Colombo-Kandy-Galle tourist run
- Pokhara & the Annapurna FoothillsNepal · from ₹1,200 a dayinstead of the Everest Base Camp trek crowd
- LushotoTanzania · from ₹1,200 a dayinstead of Moshi and the Kilimanjaro towns
- Quy NhonVietnam · from ₹1,250 a dayinstead of Nha Trang
- Arslanbob & Song-KulKyrgyzstan · from ₹1,300 a dayinstead of Issyk-Kul
- Nurata & AydarkulUzbekistan · from ₹1,300 a dayinstead of Samarkand only
- Bandipur, NepalNepal · from ₹1,300 a dayinstead of Nagarkot
- Phong NhaVietnam · from ₹1,300 a dayinstead of Ha Long Bay
- Kampot & KepCambodia · from ₹1,350 a dayinstead of Sihanoukville & Koh Rong
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Vijayanagara, KarnatakaInstead of the Mysuru palace circuit.Best: Jan–Feb, Nov–Dec₹900–₹3,200 / day on the groundGandikota
Kadapa, Andhra PradeshInstead of another Rajasthan fort.Best: Jan–Feb, Oct–Dec₹800–₹2,600 / day on the groundMeghalaya
Shillong, Cherrapunji & NongriatInstead of Kerala in the monsoon.Best: Jul–Nov₹1,300–₹4,200 / day on the groundNong Khiaw
Luang Prabang province, LaosInstead of Luang Prabang.Best: Oct–Dec₹1,100–₹3,000 / day on the groundTakayama & the Hida Region
Gifu Prefecture, JapanInstead of Kyoto.Best: Apr–May, Oct–Nov₹3,200–₹17,000 / day on the groundSvaneti
Mestia & Ushguli, GeorgiaInstead of Kazbegi.Best: Jun–Sep₹1,500–₹4,000 / day on the groundExplore by region
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