Hi! I'm Shubha. A writer and traveller. I am a solo backpacker in a country that is yet to look a woman in the eye, and the main purpose of this website is to encourage travellers like me, to help and guide them using my experience, and in turn, learn from them. All my life, most of the people I've met always look at my travel lifestyle withlonging and envy. They wish to travel on whim, to live out their fancies, to be free. But most will not do it. No because it isn't possible, but because they don't believe that it is. I would like to tell all you 9 to 5 folks dreaming about world travel. Before you look back and realise its been 40 years already, travel. Don't dream, do it.
At the end of 2009, on a Monday morning I quit my position as journalist to pursue my globetrotting passion, and left on my first ever solo trip. Since then, I have been backpacking across the length and breadth of India. Through 22 states, 2 union territories, 100 + cities, towns and villages.
What drove me to quit my job?
The travel bug bit me young. Since I can remember, my favorite childhood game was to pretend that I was somewhere else. I pitched a tent in the garden, built a hut on the terrace. At age 9, I pestered my parents to enroll me into a mountaineering institute. Darjeeling with the mountaineering institute was my first travel experience without my parents. It remains yet, my most memorable journey. First ones always do.
In 2008, after graduating from the finest college in the country with naive ideals and an unhindered young passion to change the world, I joined newspaper as a trainee. While there I realised that my picture of how I wanted to live my life was speeding away from me. At the same time, the open road was calling. So, on a Monday morning, I quit my job. I took off, and, ever since, my life has been an adventure. Each month, I discover new places and some more hidden magic in this splendid country.
At the end of 2009, on a Monday morning I quit my position as journalist to pursue my globetrotting passion, and left on my first ever solo trip. Since then, I have been backpacking across the length and breadth of India. Through 22 states, 2 union territories, 100 + cities, towns and villages.
What drove me to quit my job?
The travel bug bit me young. Since I can remember, my favorite childhood game was to pretend that I was somewhere else. I pitched a tent in the garden, built a hut on the terrace. At age 9, I pestered my parents to enroll me into a mountaineering institute. Darjeeling with the mountaineering institute was my first travel experience without my parents. It remains yet, my most memorable journey. First ones always do.
In 2008, after graduating from the finest college in the country with naive ideals and an unhindered young passion to change the world, I joined newspaper as a trainee. While there I realised that my picture of how I wanted to live my life was speeding away from me. At the same time, the open road was calling. So, on a Monday morning, I quit my job. I took off, and, ever since, my life has been an adventure. Each month, I discover new places and some more hidden magic in this splendid country.
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