Sandeepa Chetan

Chicken, rice and the traditional saag were packed in our picnic baskets. It was a day long trip – food wouldn’t be available on the way. We left our guesthouse in Reshwari and walked to the assembly point, 10 minutes away. Ours was the last pick-up.
We had registered for this trip the previous day by submitting our identity cards and photographs. A tourism officer and his wife were also visiting Reshwari. They had asked us if we would be interested in visiting the shrine of Peer Baba. We had...

It is the “land far, far away” of a fairy tale. Its unknown corners have the call of an adventure. The beauty here changes your definition of beautiful. Its in-your-face isolation has the power to transform.
Zanskar is a valley in the higher Himalayas, about 250 km and an 8-hour drive from Kargil, which is its only connection to the outside world in the summer. In the winter (if they can step out in the cold), a satellite phone connection might be possible.
“What’s to see here in the 'nange p...

It all seemed logical — even after a night’s sleep. The decision to travel long term had happened over dinner, past midnight. It had been an exhausting day. “Let’s quit it all and travel the world” had sounded, not surprisingly, like the best idea ever.

Sandeepa and Chetan, who maintain a self-named travel Tumblr, knew they loved long-term travel when they married – they just weren’t sure when they could get around to it. One an electronics engineer and the other in advertising and design, they kept postponing longer trips until they decided the...

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This Indian Couple Got Featured On Nat Geo For Living Their Dream & Setting Unrealistic Travel Goals

Her life revolved around micro-computers and circuit-boards, and he switched his job from animation to print to web to advertising, before they decided to quit their jobs, sell their house and travel the world...

Travels through the Amazon: Journeying through the rainforest, along Lima, Peru, Brazil

Imagine a golden snake. Quietly meandering its way through 7000 kilometres. Now imagine this snake to have wings. Green wings, teeming heavily with life, spread across nine countries. That in a nutshell, is the Amazon.

Everything we had ever dreamt of was there. The vast ocean. Tall mountains. Nature, unadulterated nature.
But we had to be brave. Very very brave. For us (meaning people from Mumbai) even the Sahyadri winters are a bit too much — forget the Himalayas. We’d have to face the full onslaught of the southern hemisphere winter at kissing distance from — Antarctica!

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Open air tango. Vintage markets. Opulent tombstones. Cafes. Parillas. Laughter and celebration. Happy people of the happy-aired city: the literal translation of Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires had too many contenders for the first impression, but what struck us most were the shadows.

A dismissive wave of the hand, a musical “Na da” follows every “Obrigada”. It has a ring of “Don’t be silly, saying your thanks and all — is that how you treat your friends?”
That was our first impression of Brazil, as we landed in São Paulo airport for a 5-month trip (we didn’t know so at the time) through South America.

The full-time travellers: How serendipity became our guide to long ...

We left Mumbai with a one-way ticket to Delhi. The month of May made the Himalayas the obvious choice for the destination. An overnight train from Delhi took us to Jammu. Excited, we got out of the Jammu railway station. Sandeepa, looking for taxis to Srinagar. Chetan, for an auto rickshaw to a hotel in Jammu! Thus began our first long-term trip together!

Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost. Mumbaikars Quit Jobs to See the World

If you've been putting off those once-in-a-lifetime travel plans for 'someday' or if you have a bucket list of places..

Meet the Mumbai Couple Sold Their House to Travel the World

It was just another day when Sandeepa and Chetan, a couple from Mumbai, decided to “start exploring travel and photography as a way of life”. And they have never looked back since then. By profession, Sandeepa is an Electronics Engineer and Chetan has worked in the field...