My family didn’t travel much. It wasn’t for the lack of interest or mood but for life itself. However, I made it a point to travel in life.
I started with a trip to Chandigarh, Shimla and McLeodganj back in 2014 with my class from architecture. I dropped out of architecture school that year.
I joined another full-time degree in Noida after my gap year and since then, I’ve been trying to travel as much as I can. I’ve visited the following places since I first began in 2014.
25 Places Before 25
Completion
I had this rather odd idea that I wanted to travel to or see 25 places (at least whichever pass the unexplainable filter I have in my head) before I’m 25 years old. Here’s how I’ve progressed.
The Places:
I visited some places twice or more. In that case, there’s a number on them. However, they only add to the score once. Places I’ve lived in get an infinity since I got to be a part of them.
Dehradun (∞) | Rishikesh (3) | Mussoorie (∞) | Chandigarh (3) | Shimla (4) | McLeodganj (2) | Noida (∞) | Delhi (∞) | Agra | Jaipur (2) | Mumbai (2) | Kochi | Munnar | Pune (∞) | Hyderabad | Nallavagu (∞) | Bangalore | Jodhpur | Udaipur | Pushkar | Mount Abu | Jaisalmer | Jammu | Goa
The Gap Year Month of Travel
What’s a gap year without some spontaneous solo travelling, right? I mean, all of us have to embrace the cliches and live in the banality every once in a while. During my gap year, there came a month when I was too tired of Dehradun and the life I had here so I left Dehradun for Bangalore. While, initially, this was for a technical conference but after that and some three days in Delhi, I decided to go to Rajasthan and travel on my own. I started in Jaipur, went to Pushkar, then to Udaipur, then took a detour to Mount Abu, then to the blue city Jodhpur and finally to Jaisalmer. The trip was as I’ve described below in the conclusion post on my Instagram.