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<\/a><\/p>\nMy Journey<\/b><\/h2>\n
I was born in Rajasthan and topped my way across schools to study Commerce & Economics in Symbiosis, Pune. After that I lived in Bombay for three years while completing a MBA from Welingkar in Finance. My parents were avid travellers (considering a traditional marwari household) and nothing made my mom happier than being on a carefree road-trip in the Himalayas.\u00a0My friends had already started telling me on various weekend trips that I was meant to be a wanderer.<\/b><\/p>\n
After my education, I went back home to the family business.\u00a0In seven years that I worked there, our factories in a small village did fabulously well and the turnover quadrupled.<\/b>\u00a0The industries\u00a0were awash with dust and I began having allergic troubles within a year of starting work. The doctors duly announced I had chronic asthma and that it wasn\u2019t going away.\u00a0Experiential and luxurious family vacations happened during this period, but I kept yearning for more.<\/b><\/p>\n
In the meanwhile, I had my first solo trip to Ladakh within a year of joining the family business.<\/b>\u00a0It made me realise that I didn\u2019t care for worldly materialistic possessions and had a natural flair for travel. I was enamoured by the simplicity and kindness of the mountain people.\u00a0Next year, on a random trip I made my way around Kinnaur and Spiti<\/b>\u00a0for a month, happy to fill my lungs with\u00a0clean mountain air. It was in Spiti that I realised that I am wired to life a life of a full time traveller.<\/p>\n
On these trips, I noticed that people\u2019s stories and experiences fascinated me. I was hooked to the myriad cultural and historical pleasures travel had to offer.\u00a0Heritage walks, food explorations and local festivals held a special interest for me. A Nikon DSLR was bought on a whim in Singapore and I started experimenting with photography.<\/b><\/p>\n
Back in the factories powerful chronic medication was prescribed and I had two brain scans due to asthma attacks in that torrid period. My asthma got unbearable by\u00a0the seventh year. One fine day, I was shocked to google and find out that \u2018medicines meant for fatal patients\u2019 were the latest in my list of prescriptions.<\/p>\n
I had never felt weaker in my entire life. I was 28 and was a slave to medicines every day, the side effects of which had caused havoc.\u00a0My days passed in a trance due to the headlessness and breathlessness caused by asthma. I told myself, there are better ways of dying and <\/b>took a decision that changed my life.<\/p>\n
On\u00a08th January, 2014<\/b>\u00a0in a conservative Indian household, without telling anyone and armed with some sixteen thousand rupees I boarded a train to Delhi. I managed to travel for almost two months in that meagre amount recuperating in Rishikesh and then backpacking across the snowy Himalayas. I knew I would survive.\u00a0I called my\u00a0parents and told them I wasn\u2019t coming home.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
I have been on the road ever since. I have slow travelled my way across 24+ states in India and 4+ countries and endeavour to keep exploring this wonderful world in the years to come.<\/p>\n
My Travel Style<\/b><\/p>\n
I travel solo on a strict budget and prefer keeping my carbon footprint low by walking\/using local transport\/hitchhiking, to the extent possible.\u00a0I prefer staying in homestays located in the midst of nature that enable me to live as a local. <\/b>I try to use as much local help as possible, \u2018the goodness of strangers\u2019 as I like to call it. <\/b>Fixed itineraries don\u2019t appeal to me and I normally\u00a0keep travel plans flexible.\u00a0I travel responsibly; avoid drinking bottled water and carry all the disposable waste with me on my travels.<\/b><\/p>\n
Among my memorable experiences (good & bad) are : Two grand winter trips to Ladakh; Slow travelling in\u00a0Garhwal<\/b>\u00a0when I had a morbid experience and barely escaped alive <\/b>(go ahead and read the blog entry<\/a> if you want to know more). I have traipsed around\u00a0Kumaon for over two months<\/b>. It was a joy to experience the\u00a0bountiful monsoons of Goa and parts of Karnataka<\/b>.\u00a0Himachal Pradesh (my favourite state!)<\/b>\u00a0has been my temporary residence numerous times while I have explored and worked from various places.\u00a0A highlight of my travel life is the solo trek from Lahaul to Zanskar.<\/p>\n \u00a0I am currently based in Jaipur, Rajasthan.<\/b><\/p>\n Hello! I am Shubham (Shoebum) Mansingka. I\u2019ve been a full time traveller for 5+ years now and work professionally as a travel writer and consultant. I hope my offbeat stories from lesser known places excite you to experience travel differently. I want to inspire you to make a difference through sustainable and responsible tourism. 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