I've often said that #travel doesn't have to be expensive. In Dandeli we stayed at a campsite called BeOnTheTrail that charged us ₹1000 per night for pitching three tents. This included the use of all facilities on their campsite including a bathroom with geyser, and a campfire each night. Boating was ₹100 per head, kayaking was perhaps ₹300. In Gokarna we are paying ₹500 for pitching a tent at a campsite by the beach. Food at both places was about ₹2000 per day for six people. Petrol has been expensive, costing us more per day than stay and food, but we could have used public buses instead of a car.
That said, I recognise that travel is a privilege. Not everyone has a job that they can work on remotely, or can get leaves from. Not everyone has a car to just up and go. We've paid dearly for the space to store all of our camping gear. I have Sharada to take care of my plants when I'm gone. The list goes on. Just because I'm not spending much on this trip doesn't mean that I don't have other hidden means that enable this trip.
So, umm, if my travel pics encourage you to take short breaks more often, that's very nice. If they make you feel that you don't have the means to enjoy life as much as others, then I'm truly sorry I've made you feel this way. I wish I could tag Instagram pics in a way that you could filter out the travel pics.
I went camping with some friends three years ago, to Kasauli. They reached out to say that that trip would always be a core memory for their kids. And that my kids would have so many more such memories. Which is very generous of them, but it is also true. If you do have the means, and you have kids, yet you just sit on your butt all weekend, or all you do is luxury travel that doesn't let your kids connect with nature and with rural India, then really, get off your butt and go somewhere.
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#दोस्ती #Gokarna #sea #rocks #sand #sunrise
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#Kayaking in the #Kali river. The high point of any #Dandeli trip.
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भोर भई
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Because his grandfather swam here too.
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Gotta love pics with progression. #lake #flowerman #mountain #sky. And in the center, the chaos of the #city, too far to notice.
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The view from Betul Fort is hard to describe. Something else altogether. Must go back there soon.
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The elder one dialed things up a couple of notches and took the dinghy out into the sea. The island was too rocky and he couldn't find a place to tether his boat, so he came back. He saw lots of big red and yellow crabs on the island.
#boat #sea #island #rowing #karwar #karnataka
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This pic turned out rather nice
#boating #boat #lagoon #karwar #karnataka
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M1. Boating. With a headlight. On an inflatable boat we picked up five years ago and never got to use. Till today. Big day ha ha.
#boating #boat #karwar #majali #karnataka
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Fishing boats look rather romantic from a distance
#fishing #boat #sea #rocks #caboderama #goa #trees
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We got invited to a boat party on Christmas eve
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Anubha Kothari,
Meenakshi Sharma,
Smita Babu,
Susheel Tenguria,
Dashmit Aurora,
Anku₹ Maur¥@,
Parvi Chadha,
Shivam Singh,
Arya,
Miguel Ángel Vázquez Gómez,
neha choudhry,
bulbuntu,
Nathalie Da Costa Zoelorelei,
Shoumi Dasgupta That's me kids. Sailing. A different kind of caravan.
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Mehha Goel,
Rasshmi Guptaa,
Meenakshi Sharma,
Anku₹ Maur¥@,
Umesh Unnikrishnan,
Smita Babu,
Nupur Bhatnagar,
Sagar (Montey),
Arya,
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Kavita Kaushal,
$£₹€¥,
Jincy Joy,
Faraz Khan,
Akshay Jain,
Susheel Tenguria,
Sanchita,
Bhavna Ahuja,
Rajiv Tyagi About this morning
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Rasshmi Guptaa,
Anubha Kothari,
Nupur Bhatnagar,
sparklinraindrops,
Nandana Nandakumar,
Vinish G,
Rupam Das,
nilay,
Galadriel255 🤸🏽♀️ 치트라,
VⁱҜαs 😇 kushwaha,
Prashanth,
neha choudhry,
bulbuntu,
Bhavna Ahuja,
Gautam Ghai The sky was very dramatic, all day long
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Jayasri Samyukta Iyer,
Radhika Arora,
Galadriel255 🤸🏽♀️ 치트라,
nilay,
Smita Babu,
Chrissie 𓆉,
Boats and Clothes,
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RAAG | Anurag singh,
neha choudhry,
Neha Gupta,
Preeti Ranjan Saha,
Fafa Fakeera,
Miguel Ángel Vázquez Gómez Just pics of people looking cool on a yacht.
Did I mention that we all caught a cold. But it was 💯 worth it.
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Jayasri Samyukta Iyer,
Radhika Arora,
Reema Ahmad,
Vinish G,
Rama Venkataraman,
Sreeram Karthik,
nilay,
Smita Babu,
Mohit Khurana,
Shivam Kumar Singh,
Avnish Priya Gautam,
Sunali Sethi,
neha choudhry,
Ram Chandra Khadka,
Navneet Kaur Virk,
Sujoyta Dhar Ghosh,
Neeru,
ÖvÈr†hïñkÈR,
Esha Sapra,
Lucie Doubledutch Walta,
Nisha Sharma Most of these pics haven't been taken by me. Which explains how they've turned out so beautiful.
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Although it might appear from this pic that he is being towed, M1 did kayak back and forth quite independently.
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My prior experience with kayaking 🛶 was a bad one 20 years ago. This was definitely a lot of fun, and something I'd like to do over and over again.
So, you know, we could do this if you come visit us.
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We went kayaking to an island that appears and disappears with the tide.
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Jayasri Samyukta Iyer,
Jayati Talapatra,
Meenakshi Sharma,
Rahul Gusai,
Rachana.Kulshrestha.Official,
Gauri D,
Himanshu Mehlawat,
Smita Babu,
Soumyya Chawla,
Avnish Priya Gautam,
Ram Chandra Khadka,
Neha Gupta,
Navneet Kaur Virk,
Mitali Kalra,
Jyoti Raghavan Khanduja,
Mohit Khurana,
VⁱҜαs 😇 kushwaha,
ÖvÈr†hïñkÈR,
Bharath Pudi,
Nisha Sharma The sunset was gorgeous. Such colours in the sky. The photographs do not do justice.
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Sunday was spent sailing on the Chapora River
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Radhika Arora,
Reema Ahmad,
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Gauri D,
Anamika Agarwal,
Nandana Nandakumar,
Lega Navale Italiana Palermo,
Just by the Bay of Bengal,
Smita Babu,
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Dashmit Aurora,
Mitali Kalra,
JANIKA MÄENPÄÄ,
ÖvÈr†hïñkÈR,
Prateek Vijayavargia,
Puneet Soni Throwback pic. बताओ कहाँ?
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Harriet Quilty,
Mehha Goel,
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Rasshmi Guptaa,
Rupesh Paswan,
vintanwar,
Vinish G,
Kalpana Raghav,
Devleena Bhattacharya,
Ram Chandra Khadka,
Udaya Uma Pillalamarri,
Arya,
Deepa Guru #varanasi #india #banaras #kashi #banarasi #travel #varanasidiaries #uttarpradesh #photography #benaras #ganga #incredibleindia #ghat #gangaghat #gangaghats #travelphotography #varanasiindia
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Atal Rishishwar, Vikash Kushwaha
The came #rafting down the #Ganga #river, one after the other
#uttarakhandheaven #uttarakhand #travelphotography #travel #nature #incredibleindia #travel #adventure #sports #river
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Shailendra Arya, Sunali Sethi
Gotta love river beaches
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Atal Rishishwar, Gauri D
#boats against a setting sun
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Gauri D, Vikash Kushwaha
About last weekend
#boats 🛥 😍
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Gauri D, Saikat Datta
#Boat Love 🛥
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Vikash Kushwaha, Harish Mukundan
The #boat life
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Gauri D, Edward Christian
#Blue
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Sumi Tanweer Khan, Gauri D
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