My love for travelling began once I was a toddler with deliberate holidays that we took as a household. I used to be all the time eager about historical past and tradition. I moved out of dwelling at 19 and began venturing out by myself inside India. I discovered that I actually loved journey. My curiosity in backpack journey started after I married an Military officer in 2008, we explored India’s size and breadth from the Siachen base camp to Ladakh and Pondicherry collectively. Later, we travelled exterior India on backpack journeys.

Once I was pregnant in 2014, I desired to journey alone to a overseas nation with my child Arianna earlier than she turned two. My household was involved about this determination to journey alone, however I assured them that we might make it work. This dream materialised when she was a yr outdated and I took off to Germany along with her for a backpacking journey as a solo mum or dad.

To this point, I’ve travelled to 17 international locations and a number of locations inside India. We choose travelling inside a funds and backpacking throughout locations. Together with my household, I’ve been to international locations like New Zealand, Stockholm, France, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Dubai, Bhutan, and so forth.

Travelling As A Solo Mother or father

As a solo mum or dad, I’ve travelled with Arianna to Germany and Spain, aside from varied locations throughout India, the place I’ve camped, gone overlanding and on island trails. Outdoors the nation, I travelled throughout Cologne, Hamburg and Frankfurt in Germany in 2016, whereas staying at youth hostels, taking public transport completely, and made her attempt native meals when she was only a yr outdated. I wore her in a child service, travelled with a rucksack and a pram all by way of these cities, and had an unbelievable expertise.

Following this, I took her to Barcelona in 2019 and made her expertise historic and cultural locations whereas attempting native meals and staying in a mattress and breakfast when she was 4 years outdated.

Throughout these journeys, I additionally made errors and learnt quite a bit about managing a toddler whereas travelling. Greater than something, I’ve actually bonded with my daughter with out anybody round, and she or he has learnt to keep away from any misconceptions and stereotypes about individuals who do not look something like her.

Starting Of Backpacking Indian Mama

I began running a blog in 2018 and commenced documenting my journey experiences for my daughter to learn when she grows up. Quickly, the phrase travelled, and lots of moms and younger mother and father wrote to me asking for tricks to backpack with their children. This was once I began creating content material completely round solo mum or dad journey. I now attempt to assist moms by giving them suggestions and tips to plan itineraries, pack successfully, handle meals on the go, discover lodging choices throughout the globe, and encourage them to journey with their children.

The true affect of my travels has been listening to from Indian moms throughout the nation that they discovered the braveness to journey with their children after studying my journey blogs and watching my content material on my Instagram channel. They now return from their journeys and write to me saying my suggestions actually labored after they travelled. For me, that is my largest win!

My motive is to encourage Indian moms to take up solo mum or dad and backpack journey as a doable way of life. I wish to see moms throughout India journey as solo mother and father safely and confidently and I’m doing this by making a group of backpacking moms in India. To make this occur here’s what I’ve begun:

My enterprise: A bunch journeys initiative known as #BACKPACKWITHMOM the place I take alongside different moms and children to totally different locations and make them expertise travelling the way in which I do. The primary group journey enterprise occurred in December 2021 to Meghalaya, the place I collaborated with a tour firm known as ‘Freefolk’, and took alongside six mothers and 7 children throughout 4 locations within the state, and gave them distinctive experiences like tenting within the cleanest river in Asia, visiting the cleanest village in Asia known as Mawlynnong, ziplining on the Indo-Bangladesh border, tasting native delicacies and experiencing native stays and meals all by way of the journey. I plan to curate many extra journeys to totally different locations to showcase the great thing about backpack journey with children. The response to this enterprise has been unbelievable as I’m inundated with journey requests. I will likely be organising extra such group journeys this yr.

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