Sahara, Morocco
The Other Land
Hosted trips for fifteen people who chose the same trip. Set dates, a host who travels with you, and the doors a guidebook can't open.
Upcoming departures
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
Tell us who is coming.
Japan, the golden route
Tokyo, Hakone, Kyoto and Osaka, with a ryokan night in the middle.
From ₹2,65,000 per person, land only
See sample routesTwo ways to travel with us
Join one of our hosted trips on set dates, or have a whole trip designed around you. Either way you get our hotels, our routes, and one of us on WhatsApp.
Ahangama, Sri Lanka
Trips made for you
Your dates, your people, your pace. The table that is booked out for months, the room with the better view, a kitchen that already knows what you don't eat.
See sample routesMost 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 on the page, per person, and include every hotel on the route.
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November · Saturday 14 to Sunday 22
Sri Lanka
Colombo, Ceylon Tea Trails, Yala, Galle
₹1,25,000 per person
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December · 4 to 13
Munich to Prague
Munich, Salzburg on Krampus night, Bad Gastein, Český Krumlov, Prague
Price coming soon
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January · 23 to 31
Morocco
Republic Day in the desert, Marrakech, the High Atlas
₹2,00,000 per person
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February
Bansko, Bulgaria
Beginner ski mornings, the Rila monastery, wine in Melnik
Price coming soon
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March
Japan
Kyushu in blossom
Price coming soon
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April to July
Portugal, Southern Italy, Croatia, Iceland
Routes being drawn now. Ask to hear them first.
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Trips made for you
For the incurably curious, and the people they travel with. Tell us who is coming and what they can't stand, and we will draw the route around them. Three we have drawn before:
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Sri Lanka, hills and hidden coast
Tea country by train, a quiet stretch of the south coast, a villa where nobody needs to be anywhere.
From ₹75,000 per person, land only
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Japan, the golden route
Tokyo, Hakone, Kyoto and Osaka, with a ryokan night in the middle.
From ₹2,65,000 per person, land only
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Sicily, Taormina, Etna and the Baroque
A terrace over the sea, a day on the volcano, the honey coloured towns of the southeast.
From ₹1,80,000 per person, land only
Recently designed
A Christmas in Scotland for two women · Fourteen nights for a family, Rome to Amsterdam · Safaris in East Africa · A slow week on Koh Samui · Ten couples in Vietnam · Thirty seniors in Georgia
Why we chose the hotel
Every room we book, one of us has slept in or walked through. These are the notes we keep.
A tented camp in tea country.
“Canvas walls, a proper bed, a verandah over the tea. Ask for the tents on the lower terrace, so parents skip the steps.”
A pool house outside Galle.
“The pool faces the sea, not the lobby. Book the garden side rooms; the road side wakes up early.”
How we work
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A conversation.
Who is coming, what they love, what they won't eat, how fast the slowest person walks.
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A first route within 48 hours.
The places, the order, the hotels and why we chose each one.
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We redraw it until it's right.
Swap a city, add a night, drop a flight.
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We book everything.
Hotels, cars, guides, trains, the table on the second night.
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One WhatsApp thread while you travel,
with a person on the other end who knows your route.
No charge until the route makes you grin.
Start the conversation
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.
In their words
Arjun M., Bangalore · ThailandNo temples, no museums, just food. They built an entire trip around it. Every meal was a discovery.
Sneha and Vikram · MoroccoThey put us with a family in a kasbah. Two nights I'll think about for the rest of my life.
Aditya R., Hyderabad · FinlandThe 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.
The Iyer family, ChennaiThree generations of us. Singapore for the kids, Samui for the grandparents, Travalong managed the seam. We didn't argue once.
Rhea K., Pune · Sri LankaMy 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: who is going, when, and what they love. You get a first itinerary draft, free, and we carry on from there on WhatsApp.
