Kholkar additionally notes that vacationer locations in India are flooded with autos growing our collective carbon footprint. Their answer? E-bike excursions that merge native, genuine experiences with sustainability and eco-consciousness.
“We wished to supply offbeat and distinctive experiences but additionally be environmentally acutely aware by our platform. We have now tried to inculcate the identical in each manner potential. (As an example) we offer string luggage made of material so friends can dispose waste if any in it and carry water and different requirements too. Equally, once we launched in Goa, we used upcycled delivery containers as our hubs. This was all an effort to cut back waste and make the visitor additionally a way more acutely aware traveller. With electrical automobile (EV) as a class rising we wished to make sure that folks make that as a consideration even when travelling. Most often, it’s truly the primary time that individuals truly check out EV after they take our tour.”
BLive’s three-hour Madikeri Nature Path, as an example, takes teams of cyclists on e-bikes — that may be both a daily cycle or a battery-powered automobile relying on how one flicks a given change — for tour of places reminiscent of a dam, a scenic riverside spot, an area espresso plantation, and a excessive Coorg peak. All this whereas the cool Western Ghats breeze refreshes cyclists as they cross by picturesque spots.
Requested about their means of curating excursions, Kholkar additional explains: “We take a look at places which have a very good quantity of historical past, robust tradition and a few very distinctive choices in arts, craft or meals. It takes us about three months to curate an expertise. We have interaction with the area people to make sure the most effective expertise. Our native guides, whom we name, ‘captains’ apart from being nice story tellers are fully immersed within the native tradition, historical past and heritage. Our experiences are therefore all the time distinctive whether or not its seeing the contemporary Goan bread ‘poi’ popping out of the oven, or seeing handcrafted bangles being made in Jodhpur or seeing espresso brewing course of in Coorg.”
The 2018-established startup, which has performed over 10,000 excursions, says they’re aiming for a pan-India footprint.
“By our e-bike excursions, we need to develop our presence in 200 places in India. By finish of the 12 months we might need to be in worldwide places like Sri Lanka and South East Asia to start out with. We need to speed up the progress in direction of switching to EV which is made potential by way of the expertise given on our excursions. Thus creating a bigger social affect.”