The Other Land
Join one of ours.
Set dates. Fifteen seats. A host from our team.
Hosted trips, one 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.
We design the trip for the incurably curious.
Places worth the flight, hotels worth the night, and one person on WhatsApp who knows your whole trip.
Mirissa, Sri Lanka
Mirissa, Sri Lanka
Two ways to travel with us
Trips made for you
Have one made.
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.
Most trips show you a place.
Very few let you in.
The Other Land is our hosted season: one trip a month, fifteen seats, a host from our team who has walked the route before you. No coach, no flag, no Indian restaurant on night three. Prices are per person and include every hotel on the route.
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Next departure · November
Sri Lanka
Saturday 14 to Sunday 22 Colombo, Ceylon Tea Trails, Yala, Galle ₹1,25,000 per person Ask for a seat -
December
Munich to Prague
4 to 13 December Munich, Salzburg on Krampus night, Bad Gastein, Český Krumlov, Prague Price coming soon Ask about this trip -
January
Morocco
23 to 31 January Republic Day in the desert, Marrakech, the High Atlas ₹2,00,000 per person Ask about this trip -
February
Bansko, Bulgaria
Beginner ski mornings, the Rila monastery, wine in Melnik Price coming soon Ask about this trip -
March
Japan
Kyushu in blossom Price coming soon Ask about this trip -
April
Portugal
Routes being drawn now Ask to hear it first -
May
Southern Italy
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June
Croatia
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July
Iceland
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Trips made for you
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:
A Christmas in Scotland for two women
Glasgow, Inverness and Edinburgh, with the 25th in a castle.
Fourteen nights for a family, Rome to Amsterdam
Four countries by train, one family, no bus window.
Safaris in East Africa
Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar, drawn for December.
A slow week on Koh Samui
One resort, chosen from four, for a week of nothing much.
Ten couples in Vietnam
Ten rooms with a view and one long table every night.
Thirty seniors in Georgia
Tbilisi and the mountains, at a pace that suits seventy.
A letter from Nakul
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.
What they sent us after
“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.”
The First Draft
Describe the trip in a few lines. You get a first itinerary draft, free, and we carry on from there on WhatsApp.
Tell us who is coming.
We will draw the route.
New Zealand