planned by you, not an agency

Skip the famous one.
Go where it's actually good.

Second-choice valleys, side-street guesthouses and the local bus nobody tells you about. Set your money and your month — every price on the site rewrites itself around you.

68In India
14States
51Treks
27Religious places
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Writing

How to do this yourself

Method, routes and receipts — the parts an agency charges you for.

The whole country, one picture

Pick a pin

Every Indian destination on the site, plotted. Colour is the region; tap a pin for the full page.

Every destination

Each one instead of somewhere famous

Map

India, pinned

Scroll to zoom, drag to pan. Numbered circles are groups — click one to open it up. Every pin has a full page behind it.

All destinations

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Activity · trekking & hiking

Twenty-seven treks, graded honestly

Easy means a fit beginner in running shoes. Medium means you own boots. Hard means altitude, cold and a real chance of turning back. Permits come first, because a permit you didn't know about is a trek you don't do.

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Category · pilgrimage

Religious places, done cheaply and done right

Two things ruin a pilgrimage trip and both are avoidable: arriving without the booking that had to be made sixty days ago, and paying an operator for a bus you could have taken yourself for a tenth of the price.

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Writing

How to do this yourself

Method, routes and receipts. No sponsored posts, no "10 dreamy destinations", and every figure carries the month it was checked.

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