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WHY TRIPSTER BUDDIES?

Tripster Buddies is an initiative to build a community based on love to help seekers reach their inner truth.

 

Tripster Buddies is run by two passionate homeschooling mothers who loves to travel and learn from people and nature.

 

Tripster Buddies hosts holistic educational trips for mom and child. Trips are curated keeping in mind the physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual development of the child. We orchestrate the event, sit back and enjoy on how the child observes and cherries being here and now. Trips also focus on kindling the spirit of the mother by providing her knowledge, safety, care and love.

 

TripsterBuddies also curates an annual event, The Alternative Thinkers Conference, which helps bridge people who have understood and implemented the path of love with people who are aspiring the same. The platform hosts people from various fields who have gone that depth in loving what they do and now, all that they want to do is share the love with all.

 

In all what we do, our intention behind Tripster Buddies – is to fall in love with the abundance of life, observe and appreciate human efforts and learn to be mindful and grateful every moment.

TRIP CURATORS

Lakshana Shravan

 

Lakshana Shravan is an explorer who loves to travel outward and inward. For her love for travel, she has been awarded the most prestigious Rastraparthi Award from The President of India. And for the travels she made inward, she discovered herself and helped many to discover themselves.

 

Lakshana’s family is a sheer example of working as a team. In her joint family everyone is aware of their strengths. As a family they are moving in to very conscious lifestyle bringing awareness to every action of theirs. They have pooled each one’s expertise to expand and impact the world in a positive way.

 

Lakshana is a professional classical dancer. A passionate mum, who homeschools her son. Mom and son’s love for travelling and learning have birth to Tripster Buddies. Tripster Buddies is a travel based experiential learning community.

 

Lakshana coaches individuals on awakening their vitality by helping them find their roots through her Discover You program.

 

Lakshana is spiritually inclined. Her biggest strength is her focus towards love.

Durgesh Nandhini

 

Durgesh Nandhini is a continuous learner. Who questions everything and enjoys the question itself. A learned listener, who from a very young age has the ability to see the larger picture. She is a mother of three little children who are being homeschooled.

 

Durgesh’s love for travel and people has taken them to meet a lot of people who live in alignment with nature. Her friendship with the Sun is unique. Her bond with nature has taken her to naturally lotus birth two of her children. She believes in we are what we eat. Her family mindfully consumes all five elements. Her home is zero wet waste free and has only stuffs that sparks love.

 

Durgesh loves to share. She shares her thoughts and learnings through blogging and workshops. She trains corporates and individuals on minimalism. Her talk – ‘The power of one simple question’ on TedX has reached far and wide.

 

For all the willingness to be and do, she owes it to her family.

Media coverage

Learning & Traveling: Bengaluru Mother’s Home-Schooling Ideas Are Teaching Goals! | The Better Home

Life is a highway: Parents and kids hit road for experiential learning | Times Of India

The power of one simple question | Durgesh Nandhini | TEDxLavelleRoad | Youtube

Frequently asked questions

How do I join Tripster Buddies trips?

The entry to the trip is through a first come first serve basis. The trip information brochure is published on Tripster Buddies Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp groups at the announced time. On making the payment, one gets registered for the trip.

 

It works faster in our whatsapp groups as the response and updates are quick and convenient here. (P.S – Our trips get sold out within a few minutes from publishing).

How many days on a trip?

On average, they range from 3 to 6 days.

What is the cost of a trip?

Trip costs vary from trip to trip. On an average from our past trips it ranges from 6000 to 8000 Rupees per mother for a 4 day trip. And 4000 to 7000 rupees per child for a 4 day trip.

Items included and excluded in the cost?

Included – Accommodation, transport, food, entry passes to events and places, Guide and knowledge partner’s charges.

 

Excluded – The transportation cost in reaching the destination of the trip from your city. Every trip starts and ends at the trip destination.

Age group requirement for participating in the trip?

Most of our trips do not have an age limit. The mother can take the decision by referring to the itinerary.

Can other members of the family participate in the trip?

Predominantly our trips are mother and child trips. Once in a while we host a family trip.

Who organises these trips?

Lakshana, a roadschooling mother, founder of Tripster Buddies and Durgesh Nandhini, a homeschooling mother curates, hosts and co-travels these trips.

 

Every participating mother volunteers to co-create the trips.

Why do we host these trips?

1. Basically, Lakshana Shravan and Durgesh Nandhini travel schooling their children.

 

2. We do extensive study in curating our trips, which we felt can benefit many when published. It’s more enriching to learn from different perspectives. The best of all children love peer learning.

 

3. Both of us love meeting people. Traveling with like minded people is a great gift to us. People who met during our trips as strangers have become our family now.

Highlights of Tripster Buddies trips?

We are not a travel company. We see every trip as an investment to our child’s holistic development.

 

We do not travel just to see places

 

i) We do in-depth analysis on the history, people, culture and geography of each place.

 

ii) Try experiencing the place like a localite.

 

iii) We get into the grassroots of the purpose of visiting the place and hence curate multisensorial activities that help better understanding for the children.

 

 

We do not just visit Google listed places. Most of the places we visit are personal and referral contacts which are rare and original.

 

Example : During our trip to Ongole, Andhra Pradesh, we visited our friend’s Granite Quarry. The world’s one and only Black Galaxy granite Quarry. We were able to get to the bottom floor of the mining site, see the factory in operation and meet people of all cadres of the organization.

 

The trips are published and members are pooled at least a month before the commencement of the trip. We arrange online study circles around a central theme. Each mother and child gets to choose to learn/prepare a topic related to the theme. The mother and child duo gets to share a multi sensorial presentation with other members during the trip.

 

We arrange experts to facilitate the learning before and during the trip. We organise experts to travel along with to get in-depth understanding of a subject.