What was your favorite half about your childhood? For me, it was diving into Enid Blyton’s novels. Didn’t you are feeling captivated studying about these countryside journeys, surrounded solely by nature and sunshine? One novel, ‘5 Go Off in a Caravan’ — the fifth e book within the ‘Well-known 5’ collection — completely captured this spirit. Because the 5 launched into a caravan journey, full with assembly a circus troupe and fixing mysteries, I reminisce discovering myself wishing for my very own journey sometime. I guess you felt the identical means too!

It’s not too late to expertise the fun of such adventures firsthand. Right here’s how one can e book your very personal caravanning journey with one of many teams that organise it.

1. Carvaa Vacationers

Began by 4 pals — Jigyasu Joshi, Himanshu Jangid, Yogesh Kumar, and Pranav Sharma — in 2018, Carvaa Vacationers is a caravan rental service that wishes to popularise the concept of experiential journey.

Elaborating on how the concept struck them, Jigyasu says, “Somebody informed us about the entire caravan expertise and, adventurous as we have been, we deliberate on constructing one for ourselves. We thought a DIY could be very cool.”

Facilities: Every car features a kitchenette, fridge, washroom, consuming water, utensils, pillows, quilts, sofa-cum-beds, LPG cylinder, barbeque grill, LED lights, and tenting gear.

Value: Upwards of Rs 5,500 per night time.

Contact them right here.

2. Carawander

Tenting is available in many sorts. In case you are somebody who misses the luxuries of life whereas on a tenting journey, this service is for you. They provide queen-sized beds to make sure you have all of the comforts whereas having fun with the altering landscapes outdoors.

The vans are additionally outfitted with sunroofs by way of which you’ll stargaze. The locations they cowl embrace Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Leh Ladakh, Uttarakhand, Delhi, and Agra.

Facilities: Every car features a queen-sized mattress with linen, a kitchenette, a washroom with a geyser, a fridge, TV, Wi-Fi, centralised air-con, night time imaginative and prescient cameras, barbeque and tenting gear, and an leisure system.

Value: Upwards of Rs 20,000 per night time.

Contact them right here.

3. The Street Home Campervan

Residing in distant areas, farms, ranches, and the outside is enjoyable and video games till you start lacking the luxuries of a bathe, a mattress, and a secure house. That is what Sidharth Varman, knowledgeable from the automotive business, realised throughout certainly one of his many off-roading adventures.

“When persons are into offroading, or for that matter after they take a van for a visit, on the finish of the day, they wish to come again to a spot that has a bathe and a few facilities,” he says. This, actually, was the precursor behind the concept of constructing a campervan.

The Street Home Campervan has expanded from journey trails to additionally embody tradition trails and beachside adventures.

Facilities: Every car features a kitchenette with a fuel and a burner range together with cooking utensils, a rest room, a lounging space with a skylight, charging factors, and photo voltaic panels that energy the sunshine and fan.

Value: Upwards of Rs 7,000 an evening.

Contact them right here.

4. Hopper Camper

Once you’re trying to journey off-the-beaten path, we are saying why depart your pet behind? Hopper Camper is among the many caravanning providers that’s pet-friendly.

They’ve a bunch of journeys throughout South India — caravan journeys to the Hogenakkal Falls, a week-long journey to the southernmost tip of the Indian mainland, journeys to Ooty, tenting journeys alongside the golden seashores of Varkala, the backwaters of Allepey, the Ayurveda estates in Trivandrum, and the tea estates in Munnar.

Facilities: Every car features a kitchen with a range, cutlery, crockery, a TV, a mini fridge, a sofa-cum-bed, a rest room with a bathe, and tenting gear.

Value: Upwards of Rs 8,000 an evening.

Contact them right here.

5. Trippy Wheels

One of many best joys of tenting is assembly individuals throughout cultures, experimenting with meals throughout areas, and naturally, sitting round bonfires at night time. That is what techie Sanjna Hangal found when she was operating a home-cooked Indian meals catering firm in Sweden – Indian Meals Göteborg, which served its delights at a few of Sweden’s largest festivals and occasions.

Intent on bringing the caravanning tradition to India, Hangal began Trippy Wheels. You may select between their number of caravan journeys by way of Hampi, Sakleshpur, Northeast India, and extra.

Facilities: Every car features a kitchenette, electrical home equipment, a music system, and tenting and barbeque gear.

Value: Upwards of Rs 5,000 per night time.

Contact them right here.

6. Camper Co

When you have been trying to try this Northeast journey, right here’s an thought: Why not do it in a campervan?  Camper Co, a Guwahati-based firm, rents out their tenting jeeps full with rooftop tents and tenting gear, to discover any state in Northeast India — together with Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, and Nagaland.

One among their hottest journeys is the one to Bhutan’s Punakha to expertise the Druk rafting service on the banks of the Mo Chu river. The drive treats you to the panoramic views of Bhutan’s valleys and rivers.

Facilities: Every car features a tenting package that has sleeping baggage, mattresses, and fundamental utensils. A few of their autos come outfitted with a kitchenette and washroom.

Value: Upwards of Rs 3,000 an evening.

Contact them right here.

7. Vahn

For industrial designer Moksha Gandhi, the highway has all the time been her second dwelling. It was amid the pandemic that the group determined to check out the nomadic way of life by taking journeys by way of Rajasthan in a campervan that they designed themselves. It was unimaginable!

So, in 2021 Moksha determined to develop Vahn to share the thrill of gradual journey with the remainder of India.

Facilities: Every car features a kitchenette, a shower and bathe, and king-size beds.

Value: Upwards of Rs 12,000 an evening.

Contact them right here.

8. Keravan Kerala

Helmed by Kerala Tourism as part of its caravan tourism coverage, Keravan Kerala has a bounty of caravans and caravanning experiences to select from whereas exploring the abundance of South India.

The pet-friendly caravan service gives journeys to Kerala’s tea plantations, backwaters, hill stations, and iconic spots within the state.

Facilities: Every car features a kitchenette, a fridge, a microwave, a washroom, a sofa-cum-bed, air-con, leisure methods, Wi-Fi, and an environmentally pleasant waste disposal system.

Value: Worth on request.

Contact them right here.

(Edited by Pranita Bhat)