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  • Japan: Snowy drive in a Mazda

    The idea was simple - a week-long road-trip in search of snow. Also, an ambitious plan, to try and touch the northern most tip of Japan, Cape Soya in a place called Wakkanai. On a clear day, it is…
  • BMW X3: Southern India Sojourn

    My wife has several friends in Bangalore and was keen on going there. Coonoor (near Ooty, in the Nilgiris district of TN) was my dad’s hometown. I had spent most of my childhood vacations there,…
  • Kashmir in a Fiat Linea...

    Only unchartered territory was the distance - 1600+ kms since I have never ventured towards North India by road. I was quite excited though and trusted our drive - FIAT Linea TJET.
  • Rann of Kutch in a Tata Nexon

    We bought our car in July 2021 and have been itching for a nice, multi day long drive since then. We, me and my wife, decided that the trip must happen, but maybe somewhere else. The top candidate…
  • Dholpur, Gwalior & Ranthambore

    Dholpur is a small town on the banks of the River Chambal and on the border of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh - about 5 hours drive from Delhi and an hour and a half from Gwalior on the Delhi Chennai…
  • Compass: 2 States, 2000 km

    We had long planned this road trip in end December centering around Goa to attend a relative's wedding and wanted to add another location for a week before returning back home. The plan was finally…
  • Driven: Sikkim & Darjeeling

    All of us were desperate and longing for a Vacation to take a break and spend some good time and after the Covid 2nd Wave started dying down, I decided to finally plan for a Sikkim-Darjeeling Trip…
  • Tata Vista: 2241 km drive to Vizag

    It has been a constant companion over the last 8 and a half years, is extremely reliable and cheap to run and maintain and has been my ride on multiple road trips across thousands of kilometres. Even…
  • Arunachal in a BMW 330i GT

    And our characters in the story live in southern part of India. So it was not just the Gumball drive, but it also involved driving to the start point in Gujarat from Bangalore, and then driving back…
  • Noob couple & a pan-India drive

    My fiancée and I are planning a road trip - from Ahmedabad to Calcutta - for late January ’22. I am kinda new to India (Indian but didn’t really live much here) and she’s an Indian Army officer…
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