Our story
Our story
We started with one corridor — India to Belarus — because nobody else was doing it properly.
2016 — 2026
How we got here
Nine years, told as the four decisions that changed what the company is.
One corridor
We started with India to Belarus, because it was badly served and we knew both ends of it. The first itineraries were four pages long and written by hand.
Both directions
Belarusian and Russian travellers started asking for India. That changed the company: two sets of expectations, two languages, and guides who could hold both.
Outward
The Caucasus and Central Asia opened up and we followed the corridor rather than the trend — Georgia, then Uzbekistan, then Kazakhstan, in that order, and only once we had walked them.
Twelve countries, one standard
The map is bigger. The rule has not moved: we sell the countries we have walked, and we say so when we have not.
Who you are dealing with
The two of us
A company that promises one person from start to finish should be willing to say which people. These are ours.
Dr Ashish Mahendra
Ashish has served the CIS region since 2016, arranging travel on behalf of distinguished clients, diplomats, government officials and medical institutions, long before the company extended its remit to leisure travellers. It is this network of relationships that the company draws upon today, and it is why he continues to oversee each brief personally rather than delegate it.
Dr Arvind Pratap
Arvind is the one who wanted to go further in the first place — he built this company around travellers who want to actually experience a place, not just see it, and he still likes explaining a destination more than he likes describing it in a brochure. He has been working the former USSR since 2019 until now and working with Travel brands and others.
By the numbers
How we work
How a journey is built
Four conversations, one plan, and a number you can act on. No call centre, no template itinerary, no handoffs.
One person, start to finish
The person who takes your brief writes your itinerary and answers your phone at midnight. No handover to an "operations team" you have never spoken to.
We say no
Five cities in six days, the Emirates in July, Song-Kul in October — we will argue with you before we take the money, not after you land.
The number is the number
Inclusions and exclusions in writing before you commit. No entrance fee appears halfway through a trip, and no "local payment" is collected in cash by a guide.
Local partners, not suppliers
The same guides, the same drivers, the same families, year after year. It is why we can get you into a cellar in Kakheti and why the car is always there.