Hyderabad: A pan-India highway journey in 100 days overlaying 18,267 km throughout the size and breadth of the nation. That is an journey on wheels that 40-year-old Mitra Satheesh, a professor on the Authorities Ayurveda Faculty in Kochi,  started on March 17. On Saturday, she was in Hyderabad.

Giving her firm on this epic tour by automobile is her 11-year-old son Narayan.

With a goal of overlaying round 800 km a day, Mitra has already coated Thiruvananthapuram, Kanyakumari, Pattamadhai, Tirunelveli, Madurai, Thanjavur, Puducherry, Chennai, Ongole in Andhra Pradesh and Nalgonda in Telangana state.

“I wish to promote the normal Cheriyal portray of Telangana state. I went and met the artists. We additionally visited the Chaya Someshwara temple in Nalgonda, a marvel by itself,” she mentioned.

Explaining how the journey took place, Mitra mentioned after the Covid-19 pandemic, she was attending to Coronavirus sufferers at her Ayurveda faculty, which had been transformed right into a Covid care centre. “It was a spontaneous determination, and my household, particularly my husband, supported me for the tour,” she mentioned, including that she was at all times fascinated about journey.

“I’ve been driving for the previous 11 years; and in Could 2019, I made my first solo journey journey to Bhutan. I study new cultures, new traditions, meals habits, relationships and thoughts units,” she mentioned.

“India is such a wonderful place to discover. Via my ‘Deko Apna Desh’, I’m calling on each girl to journey locations. Males ought to help ladies on this. Journey is an funding that gives great reminiscences. Don’t plan your journeys in order that they flip costly. It’s about experiences, not about consolation or luxurious,” she advised Deccan Chronicle.

On Sunday, she visited the Outdated Metropolis, and had a really feel of Hyderabadi flavours.

Mitra travels solely through the day, overlaying about 800 km, typically much less, relying on the journey situations and schedule. “Earlier than reaching a spot, I analysis about that space and place,” she mentioned. “I take lots of care with meals, and carry cereals and milk within the automobile,” she mentioned.

On her subsequent leg, after beginning early Monday morning type Hyderabad, she is going to head to Kondapalli, then drive on to Rajahmahendravaram, Visakhapatnam, see the Borra Caves and Araku Valley, after which her plan is to enter Odisha, then drive as much as Kolkata, the northeastern states, after which take a flip to the northern states.

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