Where the palms meet the surf
Places worth the flight, hotels worth the night, and one person on WhatsApp who knows your whole trip.
The Other Land
Set dates. Fifteen seats. A host from our team.
Hosted trips, two or three a month. You pick the month, we have walked the route before you, and the doors a guidebook can't open are already open. You turn up.
See the 2027 season
Trips made for you
Your dates. Your people. Your pace.
Tell us who is coming and what they can't stand. We draw the route around them, book all of it, and stay on WhatsApp while you travel.
See trips we have madeThe Other Land
Twenty seven departures from February to December 2027, two a month and three in the months that carry it, twelve to fifteen guests on each, three at most to a booking, and a host who has walked the route first. One age band a departure, so nobody is the odd one out. No coach, no flag, no Indian restaurant on night three.
February · one of two
The hills and the south coast
6 to 13 February
₹1,50,000 per person
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February · two of two
A ski week, the chalet taken whole
20 to 28 February
₹2,50,000 per person
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March · one of two
The Atlantic spring route
13 to 21 March
₹2,00,000 per person
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March · two of two
In blossom
20 to 28 March
₹2,40,000 per person
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April · one of two
Lisbon, Comporta, Alentejo, Douro
10 to 18 April
₹2,60,000 per person
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April · two of two
El Nido and Coron
10 to 18 April
₹2,80,000 per person
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May · one of two
Orthodox Easter
1 to 9 May
₹2,70,000 per person
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May · two of two
Puglia, Matera, Amalfi
15 to 23 May
₹2,80,000 per person
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June · one of three
The road trip, Split to Dubrovnik
5 to 12 June
₹2,70,000 per person
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June · two of three
The sailing week, our own flotilla
12 to 19 June
₹3,00,000 per person
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June · three of three
The south and the Golden Circle
12 to 20 June
₹3,80,000 per person
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July · one of three
Naadam and the steppe
10 to 18 July
₹3,40,000 per person
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July · two of three
The road trip
24 July to 1 August
₹3,50,000 per person
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July · three of three
Ólavsøka
24 July to 1 August
₹3,60,000 per person
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August · one of three
Sziget, Balaton and Prague
10 to 18 August
₹3,00,000 per person
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August · two of three
The Kandy Perahera and the east coast
14 to 22 August
₹1,60,000 per person
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August · three of three
Semana Grande, Bilbao and Rioja
14 to 22 August
₹3,00,000 per person
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September · one of three
Whales, lemurs and baobabs
11 to 19 September
₹3,80,000 per person
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September · two of three
Oktoberfest and Bavaria
18 to 26 September
₹3,00,000 per person
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September · three of three
And Formentera, closing season
25 September to 2 October
₹3,20,000 per person
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October · one of two
Highlands, Speyside and Skye in autumn
9 to 17 October
₹3,40,000 per person
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October · two of two
The inland route, Fes to Marrakech
9 to 17 October
₹2,00,000 per person
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November · one of three
Angkor, Bon Om Touk and the coast
13 to 21 November
₹1,90,000 per person
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November · two of three
Nara and Koyasan in autumn colour
20 to 28 November
₹2,60,000 per person
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November · three of three
Krampus and the first Christmas markets
27 November to 5 December
₹2,90,000 per person
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December · one of two
Saariselkä or Levi
18 to 26 December
₹3,80,000 per person
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December · two of two
By phinisi, New Year
26 December to 3 January
₹3,80,000 per person
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Departure 01 / 27
The Mirror Method
01
We write down every word.
Your trip, in your words
Early riser.
Bench sitter, not museum sprinter.
“Mom’s vegetarian.”
“Budget is… reasonable.”
02
An actual route, by hand, in 48 hours.
48 hours
03
We redraw until it’s yours, not ours.
v1
v2
v4 FINAL
v7 FINAL final
yours
04
You never repeat yourself.
The room with the view they promised.
The driver who arrives early.
The table that doesn’t exist online.
05
One WhatsApp thread, and everything routes through it.
Travalong desk
Dinner is confirmed for eight.
The boat will wait till half past six.
Your driver is four minutes away.
Rain after lunch. Plan B is ready.
“No charge until the route makes you grin. That’s the whole pitch.”
Tell us who is coming and what they can't stand, and we draw the route around them. A first route within 48 hours. No charge until it makes you grin. Most start around ₹75,000 per person, land only. Six we drew this year:
Glasgow, Inverness and Edinburgh, with the 25th in a castle.
Four countries by train, one family, no bus window.
Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar, drawn for December.
One resort, chosen from four, for a week of nothing much.
Ten rooms with a view and one long table every night.
Tbilisi and the mountains, at a pace that suits seventy.
Founder · Travalong Journeys · Mumbai
It's past midnight and I'm comparing two ferry timetables for a trip that isn't even mine. One ferry is forty minutes faster. The other leaves at dawn and catches the islands waking up. I've been at this for an hour. The dawn ferry wins. The dawn ferry always wins.
That's the kind of person you're dealing with. Hello, I'm Nakul.
I started Travalong Journeys in 2015 because all of this, the maps, the timetables, the absurd joy of finding a route nobody else bothers to find, refused to stay a hobby.
My lens is simple: a trip is everything that happens between a strange bed and a good sunset. Wake up somewhere worth opening your eyes for: a treehouse, a riad, a tent doing a very convincing impression of a five star hotel. Spend the day on something you'll exaggerate for years: walking on a glacier, drifting over a valley, jumping off things. (Safely. Mostly.) Then end it where the sky shows off: a dune, a ferry deck, a rooftop still warm from the afternoon. Museums, monuments, long lunches? Absolutely, if they're your thing. It's your trip, your ingredients. But strange bed, one good adventure, a sunset you didn't have to rush: that's the skeleton I build everything on.
What I won't build is the other thing: eight countries in nine days, waving at Europe through a bus window. That's not a journey. That's a delivery route, and you're the parcel.
The other half of the job starts when you board. An atelier doesn't just cut the suit; it fits it, adjusts it, and repairs it mid wear. So while you travel, the desk stays open: the table rebooked, the boat held a little longer, the day rebuilt when the weather has opinions. Most travel companies hand you an itinerary and wish you luck. We hand you a number that answers.
People ask me my favourite trip and I honestly can't answer. The trips have melted into moments, and the moments have melted into me. But ask me about any year of my life, and I'll answer with a place. 2015 is a bridge in Prague at 5:40 in the morning.
That's what a good trip does. It doesn't stay a holiday. It becomes how you remember your own life.
So that's what I build now, for anyone who asks: trips that turn into years you can name.
Nakul · Founder · Travalong Journeys
P.S. The email at the bottom is really mine. Tell me which year you're trying to make memorable.
“No temples, no museums, just food. They built an entire trip around it. Every meal was a discovery.”
“They put us with a family in a kasbah. Two nights I'll think about for the rest of my life.”
“The aurora was the smallest part. The sauna in the snow, the husky guide who'd lived there forty years, those are what we still talk about.”
“Three generations of us. Singapore for the kids, Samui for the grandparents, Travalong managed the seam. We didn't argue once.”
“My parents are in their sixties. Nakul designed something slow, comfortable, but never boring. They came back glowing.”
Describe the trip in a few lines. You get a first itinerary draft, free, and we carry on from there on WhatsApp.
