We started Top India Travel Bloggers as an informational list, but it turned out to be inspirational as we got to know more about each of these amazing India Travel Bloggers. The individuals featured here have diverse backgrounds – some of them left their corporate jobs to pursue travel full-time, some of them found meaning to their lives through travel and some of them started blogging to inspire others to travel more. However, there is one thing common among these bloggers – They love India and they glorify our country with their inspirational travelogues! Get Inspired from these blogger stories, connect with them and above all START TRAVELING! You never know whom you will meet on your next journey!
Note: This is by no means a comprehensive list. We might have missed some amazing India travel bloggers. Please contact us If you think that you should be featured in this list
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Here is the list of Top India Travel Bloggers
Ajay Jain | Ankita Sinha | Anuradha Goyal | Anuradha Shankar | Arti S | Arun Bhat | Bhushavali Natarajan | Dheeraj Sharma | JD Viharini | Lakshmi Sharath | Mariellen Ward | Mridula Dwivedi | Niranjan Das | Prasad Np | Puru Ekta | Rachel Jones | Ruchika Vyas | Sankara Subramanian | Sharell Cook | Shivya Nath | Shrinidhi Hande | Siddhartha Joshi | Srinivas Kulkarni | Sudha Ganapathi
Ajay Jain
Blog: Kunzum
What is it about:
We travel. What do you do? This sums up the spirit at Kunzum, where travelling is a way of life. Enabling them to bring back stories in the form of blog posts, paper and electronic books, photos and videos
Author Bio:
Ajay Jain is a writer and a photographer, focused mainly on travel. He has authored eight paperback books and over 40 e-books
Inspiration to start blogging:
Having worked for newspapers and magazines, Ajay realized that their formats and agendas were very limiting. And traditional content is not available to readers when they want it, in a form they prefer. Nor did it allow interactivity with the author. Blogging addressed all these issues – and allowed him to define his own templates and editorial plans
Connect with Ajay:
Follow @Ajay
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Sharell Cook
Blog: About.com India Travel
What is it about:
It’s an informational website, an online travel guide, about what to see and do in India, where to stay, and other travel tips
Author Bio:
Sharell was born and raised in Australia, and first visited India in 2000. She came back again in 2002, and again in 2005 to do some community work in Kolkata. After that, she never permanently left! She fell in love with an Indian guy and eventually married him. A friend of hers also offered Sharell a job looking after her guest house in Varkala, Kerala for a season — and that’s what made her decide to quit her job in Australia and move to India. She has lived in Mumbai since 2008. So far, she has visited most states in India, but there will always be many more amazing destinations remaining
Inspiration to start blogging:
Sharell was very keen for a career change (She previously worked as an accountant) and after spending substantial time traveling around India, she realised that she wanted to write. In particular, she wanted to write about India travel because it’s what really inspired her and made her feel so alive. India is such a diverse and fascinating country, with so many treasures, and she wanted to share them with the world. She started out by writing India travel articles for an article library website and then not long after, she joined About.com in her current role, which is writing and managing all the content for their India travel website. When Sharell started working for About.com six years ago, the website had zero content and zero readers. So, she had to create it all from scratch, and she has gradually built it up to be what it is today. She feels so blessed to have discovered her passion, and that it is now her job
Connect with Sharell:
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Arun Bhat
Blog: India Travel & Photography Blog
What is it about:
India Travel & Photography Blog is a regularly updated collection of stories and visuals of places and people across India and nearby countries. Updated by professional travel photographer and writer, this blog is now on its tenth year and has reported stories from every corner of the country
Author Bio:
Arun Bhat is photographer and travel writer based in Bangalore. He spends much of his time traveling through the country, documenting its riches with his writing and images. He is also a founder at Darter Photography, which nurtures photography enthusiasts through tours and workshops
Inspiration to start blogging:
India Travel & Photography Blog first began as a space to document my journeys, which had then just started becoming frequent (in 2005). The response and the involvement of audience was surprising as well as encouraging, which allowed me to convert the space from a personal journal of journeys to a meticulously maintained travel blog
Connect with Arun:
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Mridula Dwivedi
Blog: Travel Tales from India
What is it about:
As the name suggests the blog is about Mridula’s travels both within India and abroad
Author Bio:
Mridula loves to trek and travel, in that order. In her day job, she is a professor in a private college in Gurgaon. She did her Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Inspiration to start blogging:
Her sister and her brother-in-law started blogging before her, and they did not give her any peace till she too got a blog!
Connect with Mridula:
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Mariellen Ward
Blog: BreatheDreamGo
What is it about:
Breathedreamgo is a travel blog about “meaningful adventure travel”. It is inspired by founder Mariellen Ward’s extensive travels in India over the past nine years. Though Canadian by birth, Mariellen considers India to be the culture of her soul. On Breathedreamgo, Mariellen shares tales of travel and transformation, photos, videos and tips and advice on travelling, blogging and writing
Author Bio:
Mariellen Ward is a professional travel writer, blogger, editor and content and social media marketing expert based in Toronto (and sometimes Delhi). BreatheDreamGo, her award-winning travel blog about “meaningful adventure travel” is inspired by her extensive travels in India. She writes for many print and online sites; self-published a book of travel stories, Song of India; co-founded the Toronto Travel Massive and the Delhi Travel Massive; and started the WeGoSolo online community for female solo travellers. Mariellen is a Kensington Tours Explorer-in-Residence and the recipient of an Explorer’s Grant, which she will use to trace the life of Mirabai in north India in October 2014
Inspiration to start blogging:
About a dozen years ago, she was trying to recover from grief and depression, and she threw herself into yoga. While studying yoga, she suddenly felt compelled to go to India. She planned, saved, packed up and left Toronto for Delhi on December 5, 2005 for a six-month trip. She kept a travel blog during the entire trip, and that was how it all started: her passion for travel writing, blogging and India. Since then, her casual blog for friends and family only has morphed into a professional level blog — She launched Breathedreamgo on Ganesh Chaturthi, August 23, 2009 — and she has been back to India about six times. Now, she is “following her bliss” and doing what she loves fulltime – Travelling in India, writing, studying yoga and spirituality and engaging online with like-minded souls
Connect with Mariellen:
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Sankara Subramanian
Blog: Be on the Road
What is it about:
Travel Blog of an Indian Globetrotter who indulges in Adventure Travel, Wildlife Holidays, Unique Cultures, Backpacking, Budget Travel and Vegetarian Food
Author Bio:
Sankara is a traveler at heart who left his white collared corporate IT job to explore the world and make a career in blogging
Inspiration to start blogging:
Sankara never had an inkling of an idea that he would start a blog, but a lot of his friends and family were keen to know more about his travel stories and thus began his travel blog. Hence, his inspiration has been his family and friends
Connect with Sankara:
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Shivya Nath
Blog: Shooting Star
What is it about:
The Shooting Star is the home of all Shivya’s travels, and she hopes to inspire you to step out of your comfort zone and discover the world
Author Bio:
Shivya quit her corporate job in 2011, at age 23, and decided to travel the world. She has lived with the White Thai tribe in a remote Vietnamese village, hitch-hiked along Turkey’s Black Sea coast, swum with black-tip sharks on Malaysia’s east coast, spent a night in the highest inhabited village of the Himalayas, and fallen in love with so many people and places
Inspiration to start blogging:
Shivya grew up in a protective Indian family in Dehradun, a small town at the base of the Himalayas, and spent her childhood wondering what lay beyond the mountains she could see from her roof. Upon finishing high school, she went to Singapore to study, with big dreams and a big student loan. As luck would have it, she graduated in the middle of the financial recession of 2009, when most companies she wanted to work with had ceased their hiring. She landed a job with the Singapore Tourism Board, where she learnt everything she knew about social media, and started following the journey of travel bloggers across the world.
It was impossible to tame her restless cubicle-bound soul, so in 2011, she took a 2 month sabbatical from work. She went flash-packing across Western Europe with a friend, and volunteer-travelled in the high Himalayas of India. In those two months, she saw, experienced and lived more than she ever had before, and decided to quit her first and only corporate job with the dream of travelling the world on her own terms.
Connect with Shivya:
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Siddhartha Joshi
Blog: The Wanderer
What is it about:
The Wanderer is a Travel and Living blog from India, though its not bound by any boundaries. It’s a space to share stories to inspire and provide practical tips on traveling across the globe
Author Bio:
Siddhartha is a designer, traveller, and a travel blogger who loves people more than everything else. He derives his passion from interacting with the people for whom he designs the products as well as from the people he meets with during his travels
Inspiration to start blogging:
It was Siddhartha’s inherent desire to share what he had learnt through travelling with the world and also to inspire others to travel and explore the world more. He truly believes that only travelling can break barriers and make us more tolerant and accepting of our differences. He hopes that sometime in his lifetime, there would be a world without visas and boundaries and perhaps travel blogging can help in that
Connect with Siddhartha:
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Bhushavali Natarajan
Blog: My Travelogue
What is it about:
Bhushavali is a wanderlust. She loves to travel, and she hates crowds. So by default, she ventures to places where many don’t venture. She finds new places which are roads less traveled. She loves riding her bike and enjoys the journey itself, as much as the destination. Her area of interest in travel lies in everything, but especially, in Eco-tourism and Heritage. And a compilation of all this, is her Travelogue.
Author Bio:
A Fashion & Textile designer by profession who makes unique, one-of-a-kind, eco-friendly garments. Bhushavali specializes in apparel & accessories esp. those made of Khadi, Handloom and Natural dyed fabrics. On the other side she is an ardent traveller by passion
Inspiration to start blogging:
It was her first job and she was in a small town with no much regular timepass activities like malls or movie theatres. Need is the mother of all inventions and most of her Sundays she tried to explore all the lesser known places around. Soon some of her friends in the same town also tried to get around. She thought why not share it with the whole wide world, than with just a few friends. Thus, began her blog!
Connect with Bhushavali:
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Arti S
Blog: My Yatra Diary
What is it about:
Arti’s blog is focused primarily on her yatras and chronicles her travel experiences that cover an array of articles right from where she stayed, what she ate, the places she visited, the people she met, etc,. It is almost like embarking on the same journey again! Her main aim is to help people plan their trips better. In addition to all the information, she also makes sure to supplement the posts with a lot of pictures in an endeavor to inspire more and more people to pack their bags, set out and travel
Author Bio:
Arti is a 20 something girl with an inherited travel gene, thanks to her beautiful wanderlust parents. She is on the pilgrimage of her life, learning different values, discovering new cultures, breathing life into experiences, talking to wonderful people, walking the roads and above all, trying to find the right direction for herself
Inspiration to start blogging:
The inspiration came to her from the yatras she took with her family. Whenever they made any travel plans, she would find it difficult to get the relevant first hand customer experience details on hotels and food on the web. Google would throw up loads of links but what was missing were first hand user reviews and even if they existed, they were few and far between. She had the names and the tariffs but what she wanted were the photographs and personal evaluation from credible sources that would help her decide if she really wanted to stay in that hotel. Absence of that information inspired her to fill a gap that possibly existed and this is what paved the way for the creation of ‘My Yatra Diary’
However, since then, it’s gone on to become something more and is now helping her grow in her personal journey as well
Connect with Arti:
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Ruchika Vyas
Blog: Traveller Stories
What is it about:
Converting strangers into friends, uncovering lesser known places, trying something scary, breaking the rules and simply saying “Forget it, let’s go, we’ll see what happens.”—that for Ruchika is what travelling is all about, and that is what the blog reflects. Traveller Stories is a platform to share tips and anecdotes about destinations, information that is useful for readers, and updates on ‘happenings’ of the travel world
Author Bio:
Ruchika has been a writer and editor for eight years, owner of a chocolatier for two years, a TV show addict for six years, and a happy traveller since the day she hopped into the general compartment of the Kanyakumari Express on an RAC ticket. Her work has been published on Conde Nast Traveller.in, Mumbai Mirror, CNNGo.com and Femina. She is also one of the contributing writers of Outlook Traveller Getaways’ book – Driving Holidays Across India
Inspiration to start blogging:
When Ruchika first began traveling, most of her friends were very surprised because she wasn’t one of those people who had always harbored the desire to explore the world. It literally just happened one fine day. When she returned from her first solo trip, she was bombarded with questions about traveling alone, about the destination she visited and, of course, photographs. She simply wanted to collate all her travel experiences on one platform to be able to share them with anyone who was interested in traveling. And so, Traveller Stories began
A memorable incident from one of her travels:
Ruchika’s first planned solo trip was to Kerala, solely to stay in a treehouse that she had read about in Munnar. She was so determined to make this trip happen that she got on to the Kanyakumari Express on an RAC ticket. In her enthusiasm, she misread the train timings and thought it was a 24-hour journey, instead of a 36-hour one. So there she was, sitting in the general coach, without a hotel booking and with a dead phone battery. She reached Ernakulam at 4:00am and headed straight to Sithara Homestay – a place she had looked up before leaving Mumbai. The gate was locked. Stranded, she went and sat inside the Santa Cruz Basilica nearby. She sat near their garden and saw the sunrise in complete silence. All the madness that got her there was completely worth it
Connect with Ruchika:
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Shrinidhi Hande
Blog: eNidhi India
What is it about:
A personal blog by Shrinidhi Hande, focusing on travel, automobiles & reviews
Author Bio:
Shrinidhi Hande is a full time IT professional and has been blogging since 2006. He enjoys travel, long drives, chess, reading and photography
Inspiration to start blogging:
Earlier Shrinidhi used to send articles to print media. It used to take a long time to get published, if at all. Blog was an instant medium with better reach, quicker feedback and more freedom
Connect with Shrinidhi:
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JD Viharini
Blog: Enjoying India
What is it about:
Insights, tips, photos and news to enrich your experience of India
Author Bio:
Viharini is a single woman who has lived and traveled alone extensively in India. She was born in California, but have spent more than two-thirds of her life in other states and other countries. Having earned an MS in Vedic Studies in Europe, she came to India in 1980 and loved it immediately. Now she has been living in India for several years
Although Viharini has an apartment in a remote village high in the Himalayas that’s her home base, she tends to move around India with the seasons. Over the years, she has traveled around India first class, sardine class, and everything in between. She has made many friends and has come to regard India as her home
Inspiration to start blogging:
When Viharini launched her book, Enjoying India: The Essential Handbook, she felt that she needed to start a blog to go along with it. Her whole thing is helping people enjoy their time in India, and blogging is just another way to do it
Connect with Viharini:
jdviharini@enjoyingindia.com
Srinivas Kulkarni
Blog: Travel Tales
What is it about:
To traverse beyond the limitations of his mind, Srini travels to look upon the journey within himself. His blog is the place to share that journey with you. He writes mostly stories about people, places and the journey that he encounters. Himalayas are a place which is close to his heart and he has been going there for 5 years and has made it a ritual to go every year. You’ll find a lot of blogs from the Himalayan region on his website
Author Bio:
Srini is a Wandering Thinker, Pondering Writer, and an Avid Traveler. He has traveled to various parts of India and writes interesting stories of people and places that he experiences. He aspires to be a travel author one day and hopes to write a magnanimous journey of his sojourns across the world!
Inspiration to start blogging:
Srini has always enjoyed writing! It has been his first love. Back in 2006 he had this thought of becoming a better writer, but to do that, he believed that it was important to broaden his horizon. To be well travelled is to be well read! And that’s when he decided to take up travelling and slowly and steadily started working towards taking as many trips as he could and write about them. His goal is to travel the world and weave stories about his sojourns to leave a legacy behind when he is gone…
Connect with Srini:
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Sudha Ganapathi
Blog: My Favourite Things
What is it about:
My Favourite Things reflects Sudha’s multiple interests in travel & photography, books, music, Mumbai, and much more. It is a blog on topics that matter to her, on topics that interest her, and on topics that she wants to contribute her two cents to
Author Bio:
Sudha is one of the founders of #TSBC (The Sunday Book Club), an armchair and actual traveller, an editor, a communications consultant, a click-happy photographer, a classical music (Indian, Western and Arabic) lover, a mythology enthusiast, a closet graphic designer, a foodie… She is all that, this and more!
Inspiration to start blogging:
It was sheer boredom that made her start blogging
Connect with Sudha:
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Prasad Np
Blog: desi Traveler
What is it about:
A family travel blog from India with stories and pictures about destinations that desi families love visiting together like beaches, wildlife sanctuaries, pilgrimages etc.,
Author Bio:
Prasad is a corporate executive who has worked at C level for more than a decade in Fortune 100 companies, managing the India Operations. He now invests in Start-ups and advises them on strategy. He would love to travel more than he does currently
Inspiration to start blogging:
India
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Puru Ekta
Blog: Shadows Galore
What is it about:
Shadows Galore is a weblog, where Puru and Ekta share their travel experiences, photographs, lifestyle ideas, memoirs and more
Author Bio:
Puru and Ekta are IT professionals based in Pune. They love travelling to new destinations in their free time. Apart from travel, Puru loves photography and blogging while Ekta enjoys planning their trips and adventure sports
Inspiration to start blogging:
Shadows Galore started as a photo-blog on Blogspot to fulfill the requirements of a photography competition sometime back in 2010. As they were travelling to a lot of interesting places during their college days, they decided to record their experiences in the form of a blog
Connect with Puru and Ekta:
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Dheeraj Sharma
Blog: Devil on Wheels
What is it about:
It’s all simply about Traveling to Himalayas and you can expect travel updates, news, experiences, pictures, learning, thoughts, tips, guides, routes, maps, suggestions, reviews, etc.. all under one place. That is what is DoW (Travel, Off The Road…..)
It is an effort to create a travel community of likeminded people dedicated for Himalayas. They share practical and insightful travel information related to Himalayas that may help others to enjoy what nature offers us but with an ease and with a difference and in turn giving the actual benefit back to the Himalayan Lives by their Responsible Travel Initiatives such as DoW Causes, Drivers Portfolios, etc.,
Author Bio:
Dheeraj Sharma is an avid Traveler, a rookie shutterbug, a die hard Leh – Ladakh lover, with a strong passion towards driving whilst exploring new places & sharing those experiences with the fellow Travelers. Lately, he found that, using your passion to dive into the unknown and testing your limits of soul and body really boosts you individuality. Since then he never looked back. He loves to capture the beauty of nature in his camera or simply say “Nature/Landscape Photography”. Frequently, he gets on his wheels to hunt this unsatisfied hunger of capturing & learning from the endless things which nature offers us
Before he dies, he would love to summit at least 5 peaks starting from 5000-7500 Meters or may be more if god, luck and physical fitness allow him to do so. Just as everything starts with a cause, so do this whole chapter of Traveling in his life
Inspiration to start blogging:
For Dheeraj, Travel is a Reason to Believe, Smile, Love, Learn, Connect and Feel ALIVE!!
Down, out, alone and almost surrendered to the most difficult phase of his life, he suddenly thought of pursuing his passion of driving and traveling to re-start his life again, take it a step further and explore if nature has the magic to can save him and turn him into the person he once was as a child. Himalayas always had a history of being associated with peace and calmness, so he decided to have a treatment called “Nirvana @ Himalayas”. He went out into the wild to find out answers to many disturbing questions which haunted him every moment, top of the list being “Me or Devil??” The answer lies in his transformation as a person after traveling over last four years which allowed him to look @ LIFE so beautifully, making fun of every moment without considering the days passed or the days ahead. There is only one Life and now he feels that it should be ALIVE and AWESOME, always
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