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Our year
Slow travel · Local people · Your own way
No bucket lists. No trending spots. Just slower roads, local kitchens and long conversations with the people who live there. We’re an Indian backpacker couple helping you figure out how you like to travel.
The right trip isn’t the one everyone posts. It’s the one that fits how you like to move, rest and wonder.
Markets, homestays, local buses and kitchens teach more than any viewpoint. Stay long enough to be invited in.
A light bag and a loose plan leave room for the detours that end up being the whole point.
Answer a few honest questions about how you like to spend a day somewhere new. We’ll match you with a travel style, and the places and stories that suit it.
One town, many weeks. You’d rather have a favourite café than a full itinerary.
Festivals, languages, home visits. You travel to understand how other people live.
On foot and off the map. Villages between towns are your destination.
Markets first, sights later. You learn a place through what it cooks.
A year across the Americas, Central Asia, the Caucasus and Southeast Asia, and the journeys that never stop at home in India.
San Francisco · Colombia · Guatemala · El Salvador · Honduras · Costa Rica
Indonesia · Malaysia · Sri Lanka
The honest, useful stuff most travel sites skip when you hold an Indian passport and count in rupees.
We’re backpackers from India who spent a year travelling across eleven countries with little more than what fit on our backs. Somewhere between the local buses and the family dinners we were invited to, we realised the best trips weren’t on anyone’s list.
Mapping Minimalists is where we share what we learned, so you can find the kind of travel that feels like yours.
Read our full story →One thoughtful email a month: a story, a place off the usual list, and a nudge to travel your own way.