Off the map holidays

Sometimes you need a break from the regular holidays. Sometimes holidays tend to become boring. Destinations are packaged and parceled without imagination. Some boffin sitting in a plastic room in some big city creating your holiday after a few minutes of armchair research from online and off line travel guides. The online travel guide refer to the offline guide and the offline guide glean ideas from the online guides producing very similar incestuous travel content. Some better guides have put researchers on the ground, but when the researchers suggest a new something it gets shot down by the boffins in plastic rooms in the headquarter. To cut the story short your holiday is heading for disaster, even worse exactly like your last holiday.

Whats needed is holidays that are created by the people who live in the destination and people who work to deliver the experience. True, there is the danger of not understanding the background and culture of the traveler. But if you look at it is that so important?
As traveler you would like to see something unique, experience that's very different from your world. Yes, there is a risk. But nothing that you cant minimise with common sense and street (and internet) smartness.

lilplaces.com is one such company that specialises in creating experiential holidays in South India. You wont get bored on your holiday. Certainly.