Stories that walk with you
Put in your earphones and start walking. As you reach each place, its story begins, who stood here, what happened, and what to look at while you listen. No booking, no guide, no charge.
Pick a trail
Three walks through Nashik and Trimbak. Each one is an hour or less, on foot, at your own pace.
Turn on Flow
With location on, the story for a place starts by itself as you arrive. Keep the phone in your pocket.
Look up
Every story tells you one thing to look for. That is the part you will remember in twelve years.
Choose your walk
The Panchavati Trail
Walking where the Ramayana happened
Five stops along the old riverside town, the bathing kund where Rama offered water to his father, a Shiva temple with no bull at its door, a black stone Rama who watched a nation change, and the cave where Sita hid. About an hour on foot, all of it flat.
- 5
- stops
- 62
- min
- 1.9
- km
The Source Trail
Trimbakeshwar, and the spring the Godavari comes from
Thirty kilometres west of the city, a Jyotirlinga with three faces and a tank the size of a courtyard that is officially the beginning of a 1,400-kilometre river. Four stops. Some steps involved.
- 4
- stops
- 55
- min
- 2.6
- km
The Akhada Trail
The tent city, the orders, and the men with ash on their skin
Three stops through Sadhugram, the temporary city that appears for the Kumbh and disappears after it. Best walked in the late afternoon. Ask before you photograph anyone.
- 3
- stops
- 45
- min
- 2.2
- km
Recorded narration in Marathi, Hindi and English, about half a megabyte per story. If a recording will not play, your phone reads the text aloud instead.