Kathan Shah · Solo travel
A life measured in slow roads, mountain air, and stories worth bringing home.
Been there
Sikkim
Gangtok, Yumthang, Gurudongmar and the Zuluk Silk Route
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18
places in the log
9
on the horizon
2
active plans
The public map stays broad. Live routes and sensitive logistics stay private.
Travel history
The map above is the picture. This is the count — and the full list, filterable by year, lives on its own page so it can keep growing without swallowing this one.
Most recently: Himachal Pradesh (2026), Darjeeling (2026), Coorg (Kodagu) (2025).
From the journal
Every destination write-up, filed under the year the travel happened — where I stayed, what was worth doing, and what was not.
2025
Coorg (Kodagu)
Four visits in four years to the closest hills to Bengaluru, and what a place becomes once you stop treating every trip to it as an event.
2024
Chikkamagaluru & the Malnad
Three visits in three years to the Malnad: Karnataka’s highest peak alone, a company hike in the ghats, a day in Sringeri — and why the drive is the point.
2024
Meghalaya
Ten days in the wettest place on earth, the viewpoint I rate above every other, and why Meghalaya makes you choose between the falls and the river.
2024
Arunachal Pradesh
Permits, the Sela tunnel that changed the drive to Tawang, and two days with a family in West Kameng that outlasted everything else on the trip.
2023
North Kerala
Two visits to the Malabar coast — Bekal alone on a loop, then Kannur and Wayanad on Christmas Eve with Cookie and Choco — and why the radius was wrong.
2023
Nepal
Five days in the Kathmandu valley — Nepal's most-skipped destination — the open cremations at Pashupatinath, and what they do to your sense of time.
2023
Bhutan
A week of cold mornings in a country that prices itself differently for an Indian passport — and what the Sustainable Development Fee actually buys you.
2022
The Nilgiris
Three days at the end of a two-week South India loop, and the first place I seriously thought about not going home. What I would do differently.
Road stories
Now / next
Working routes for slow solo travel, built around seasons, connectivity, and enough time to notice the place.
Jul 2026 → early 2027
A long, slow Hilux self-drive across India while running the businesses light-touch. This is the full-time-travel trial run: base in connected towns, work four days, and explore the offbeat scenery on weekends.
Jan–Feb 2027
A quiet deep-winter Kashmir trip to see India’s best snow and test what a future mountain base feels like when access, warmth, roads, and safety are at their hardest.
The lifetime horizon
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Now / ongoing
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Year 1–2
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Year 1–3
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Year 2–4
04
Year 3+
“Views over nightlife: mountains, coasts, deserts, old towns, and stars.”
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