Travel guides
Practical, plain-language guides for planning trips in India: how to estimate a budget, which mode of travel is cheapest, how tolls work, what to pack and how to split costs fairly.
- How much does a road trip cost in India? A worked exampleA step-by-step way to estimate a road trip budget in India: fuel, tolls, stay, food and buffer, with a worked example.
- Bus, train, car or flight: which is cheapest for two travellers?Compare the cost per person by car, bus and train on ten popular South India routes, and learn when each mode wins.
- FASTag and tolls on Indian highways: what road trippers should knowA practical guide to FASTag, toll plazas and budgeting tolls on a long road trip in India.
- Road trip packing checklist for IndiaA practical packing checklist for road trips in India: documents, car kit, medicines, comfort and monsoon or summer extras.
- How to split trip costs with friends without fightsA simple, fair way to split fuel, toll, stay and food on a group trip in India, and settle up over UPI.
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