Women Special Tours

Let me guess, you have always wanted to travel but always backed out. I bet you must have lost count of the numerous excuses that you came up with every time a little voice inside your head said ‘I want to see the world!’   #Excuse 1: I am a woman and it is not safe to travel. This does not even qualify as an excuse! When you Google or use any other search engine   with the words ‘female solo travel’ you will get one hundred and ninety-six million results and if you type ‘Women Only Travel’ it will return over one billion two hundred thirty million results! The statistics are starkly screaming out to you that women travelers are doing just fine and experiencing incredible moments in their lives. Yes, as a woman you have to do some homework and exercise that extra vigilance but at the end you get to explore the world! Women from all walks of life and some as old as 70 are travelling, making their dreams a reality. ‘The only trip you will regret is the one...

They say the society is Male Dominated, but secretly, all males, somewhere, somehow, are dominated by FEMALES. There is a HE in every SHE, a MALE in every FEMALE, a MAN in every WOMAN. It's HER HIGHNESS that has the ability to control. Nature, Earth, Light, Life, Soul, Fire, Rain, Wind, Spirit, Body, Journey, and above all a mother, they all represent HER.  Because she is so powerful, God programmed her to be able to feel much deeper than the rest of us. Love... Hate...Care...Fear... Courage.., she has it all, bottomless, with no boundaries, unimaginable. She has the ability to provide you a whole new vision of a view. And nothing can build a vision as strong as travel can. Women & Travel, if brought together on the same platform could actually transform the world towards amelioration. A woman with a vision is what we need to grow as a whole. While talking about Women & Travel together, one comes up with a lot of challenges. That is, exactly,...

I have a deep fascination for the Iron Horse, I mean the train. My love affair with trains started way back when I was a wee lass of 7, wearing pigtails and frilly frocks.   In fact, the credit goes to my parents who introduced me to rail journeys as in their days, railroad travel was the most safe and wonderful way to travel. Those days, the steam locomotives reigned supreme and played a significant role in people’s lives, sealing their omnipresence all over the country. For me and my parents, train travel was an escape from all things routine, making our love for it stronger with the passing years. Wherever we went, the villages, rice fields, farms, sleepy towns, quiet rivers or tunnels through jagged rocks, everything was one panoramic painting. I am very sure that this provided travelers almost a year’s therapy worth of stress free living during those days. As I grew older, the golden age of Indian Railways was gradually being overshadowed by the introduction...

I had 3 days to myself due to the last minute cancellation of the convention I was there for in Delhi. Since my accommodation and meals were already managed by my office, I was quite relieved on that front. I had already scouted every nook and corner of Delhi in previous travels and did not want to waste my time in the premises of the hotel and nor did my four female colleagues of the 10 member contingent from Vadodara. We were a group of unmarried, young neurosurgeons recently inducted into one of the newly initiated state of the art facilities dedicated exclusively for the research of the human brain. Oh Boy! Didn’t know what I was getting into when I majored in Neurosurgery after my MBBS degree. The work-life balance was one rickety tightrope walk I say, even when we were not even married. We didn’t know night from day most of the times due to long, arduous hours either on research, rounds or assisting our seniors in the operating room. We performed multiple operat...

You will always see them engrossed in delightful conversation and all ecstatically giggly and sometimes shocking everyone with their almost gut busting guffaws and chortles whenever they meet. Suhani, Rupal, Doris, Persis and Purobi are best friends since they were in school and are still going strong as ever. They are the yin to each other’s yangs. So bluntly honest with each other, despite disagreements, they never ever fell out even after six decades of this soulfully, entwined bonhomie. They have been through hilarious moments, heartbreaking losses, joyous celebrations and crazy adventures- just totally unstoppable soul sistahs!   Why do I know this? Because Doris is my grandmother! And she and her besties have been my sanctuary of all things grandmotherly since my diaper days. They put mine as well as our parent’s friendships to shame and we so envy them with dazed amazement for the 60 years they have remained best of friends. They all married within the same year, ...

As the saying goes ‘A simple Hello can lead to a million things’, I learned very recently that travel broadens your perspective about people and life. After leading three very stressful years of a corporate cubicle urbanite I decided to quit and travel. Though being an urban professional my job required    very less interaction with colleagues and I preferred it that way, very comfy in that cocoon of a cubicle. If anybody wanted to be friendly with me, a nonchalant look or a crisp toned ‘Hi’ would do the job for me and I would be back clacking off on the keyboard of my work station. This eventually got me the reputation of being unable to socialize. Oh! How I hated that! Because I loved to be amongst people! It’s just that I am too shy and have an irrational fear to befriend someone, with a self-doubt that they just might not like me and reject me. So be it parties or soirees, I am the conventional wallflower. After I quit, my mother suggested the mother lode of all e...

I was always the kind of person who lived a simple unambitious lifestyle. Unambitious because I never got that thrust to think upon like that. I expected nothing great from myself, neither did my family. For all those who think this statement to be because of low self-esteem, it’s really not so. It was more about finding happiness in little things, in others smile, that with time my mind was hardwired to accept this is a soft cushy reality of my personality. And so when I turned 21, I hinted my parents to settle me down with someone. With my biodata circulating from one family to another, they found a match for me in just a month. Everything was going perfectly. I was contentful, our families admired both of us and the dates were fixed- right after 4 months. To say that I was happy would have been an overstatement, but I was absolutely excited. And with this excitement, I mustered up enough courage to convince my parents for a weeklong trip to Rajasthan. This was on top of th...

I am a working professional in a corporate industry; I have everything in my life family, friends, money, power, sources of happiness, the goal of my life and the clear path I need to walk to reach that goal. I am very particular about my image in office arena, and I always maintain that role with proper care and attention, but sometimes I feel bounded, and want to be free from everything. The invisible thing, that has binded me from within, I want to be set free and live without being judged. I feel like moving the tide as per my wish and do things in my own way; I want to get crazy and lost in myself and my own world. But with the identity, I had maintained to manage in my professional workplace didn’t allow me to live up my life to do what I want to do. Travel was a solution to my ultimate problem; I needed a break from my monotonous routine, which has completely destroyed my inner peace. I asked few of my friends, but all were tied up with their Monday blues...

“Fantastic Five” That’s how we were known in the entire Delhi campus. Like every group in the world, even we displayed certain definite and cliché group characteristics. Anne was the topper of our batch, the studious one like Hermione with a little addition of old-fashioned specs. The first comment that she would hear every another morning would obviously to replace those dilapidated glasses with the swanky lens.  Blue one , I would say :P  Next comes our fashionista, Chaavi, just like her name. There are few people who are beautiful, then come those who are stunningly beautiful and then comes Chaavi. She carried such influential aura that even her fashion blunder was interpreted as a new trend throughout college. Haha…yeah, it’s true, I can bet that! Third would off course be Anjali. Why third? Practically because she is such a diplomat! This girl has the talent to calm down the angry bird aka our Principal in just a few minutes. Damn impressive! Very cunn...