An independent travel journal from India
First-hand travel writing by the people who went: when they went, and what it was really like. No ads, no lists, and readers who talk back.
Philosophy
Days without schedules. Places visited twice. Conversations that have nowhere to be.
A group of readers who travel, a question each month, and journeys of nine people at most. Intimacy cannot coexist with a crowd.
Written by the people who went, with when. No filters: difficulty belongs alongside beauty, and we write what actually happened.
No ads, no accounts, no tracking beyond anonymous counts. Nothing a reader writes appears before a person has read it.
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Why Travelescape changed after ten years: no ads, no algorithm, no profiling, no manipulation. A slower, human travel journal from India, with a community.
From the archive · since 2015
Ten years of guides and travelogues, some written more for Google than for readers. We kept them all at their old addresses; each says when it was written, and the ones readers rely on are being checked and brought up to date. These are the ones readers talked about most.
Guides by theme
Temples, ashrams and yatras across India, written by the people who went: how to plan, what to wear, where to stay.
Day trips, two-day escapes and long weekends, sorted by how far you want to drive.
I am in my forties, based in Bangalore, working a day job I don't dislike. Travelescape is not my escape from that life — it is something I build alongside it, slowly, on early mornings and quiet weekends.
Fewer posts. More presence. That is the only editorial policy here.
The Travelescape community
This month's question: Where's the best place you've spent Diwali?
Readers answer here, and every answer is read before it appears. Add yours.