Namaste, Welcome to Inside Traveller’s Shoes! I’m Prerana, a brown-eyed girl from the vast land of many cultures – India. Just as much as I’m starstruck with the world and all the beauty it contains, I am proud of my own origins and love my country immensely. And I’m not here to tell you another story of how I quit my job to travel the world. Because frankly, I never had a “typical” one to begin with.
So, what would you normally find here, you ask? I suppose scribbles on life and experiences – as I gulp it one day at a time; things that make my soul flutter and everything that brings me happiness – a large part of which includes travel. For I do hope in some way, you’ll find your truth and yourself through it all. And it helps you “live your own extraordinary tale”.
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![[From the archives]
This is something I wrote back in 2019, before we knew the Pandemic and the madness of Revenge Travel. Surprisingly, there are some causes that stay meaningful and relevant no matter how much time passes. In fact, maybe things are worse than they were back then?
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Hey Beautiful People,
I've had so much mental confusion while I continue to write to you from Parvati Valley today. As a traveller for the past 4 months, I'm deeply saddened by how things are run. Aunthenticity of most of the places and villages I've tried to visit is mostly lost. There are some tourists with no care for the place and just come to party everywhere. Everything from stay to transport to water is commercialised. Let me not even get started with Sustainable Organisations with toxic office politics, worse than corporate.
Frankly, I believe I shouldn't be arguing to get normal water in atleast the Himalayas or the rest of India. I shouldn't be struggling to not use plastic add ons and single use plastic or avoiding Maggi like a plague. I shouldn't have the need to fight anything for home cooked food or staying or interacting with the locals.
Tourism as an industry is a service sector and I've noticed people profiting immensely in it. It seems like there is a price tag on every single thing on this earth. But, I'm saddened by it all. Though you can find kind people everywhere, encountering the occasional person with a bad vibe, sometimes questions the way the people and world works.
Trying to find motivation and reason to continue with my work and producing meaningful content in an era plagued by over tourism, meaninglessness and way less travellers than their need to be.
XO
Prerana
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