At OLLIT EXPEDITIONS, we blend fine travel experiences connecting to the local places, people, nature, and culture to our travelers to give a holistic travel experience. Here is what they have to say....
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Sowmya Raghavan
Entrepreneur & Musician
OLLIT is an off-beat & truly one-of-a-kind travel company run by Nandini Cholaraju.
As someone who has been a part of their travels & treks I know for certain that Nandini's treks are authentic, hardcore, centered around nature, learning, and a lot of fun. She is a great teacher and has immense knowledge of travel, history of places, the architecture of sites we visit, people & culture.
From every trip we come back I have a sense of pride for having achieved something I never thought I would. Nandini's trips are very professionally planned - locations, itinerary planning, permissions, logistics of the travelers and items, safety & equipment, food, learning during the treks, and infinite adventures of course. Sometimes it amazes me on how she manages to so beautifully handle all this seamlessly.
Her job is a tough one and Nandini is a master at it.
She is a fabulous trek lead & also has an efficient team of trek leads who take good care of their travel groups.
The treks are offbeat and are meant for people to truly appreciate the raw & organic nature of such travels. As a bonus, the food on these travels is great! Nandini is not the one to give you a cup of instant noodles, you'll be amazed at how she manages to ensure the group is fed a healthy fulfilling meal every time. We all jointly work to pitch our camping tents & cook for the entire group, it helps me enjoy the true experience of real and no fluff travel.
Some of the locations I've been to with OLLIT are hidden gems and heavenly.
Through these treks, I have had the privilege of getting to know Nandini as a dear friend and I feel safe and extremely comfortable as a part of her travel group
Our Philosophy
The Art of
Slow Travel
Mass tourism moves people through places like luggage on a conveyor belt — processed, weighed, labelled, and dispatched. Ollit Expeditions was founded on a different premise: that the best travel feels like belonging, however briefly, to somewhere and someone.
Every expedition we design is built around depth over breadth. We partner with cultural historians, working artists, local artisans, and cycling guides who live in the places they show you. Our groups never exceed twelve travelers — the size of a good dinner party — so encounters stay intimate and serendipitous.
We believe travel should be a practice, not a transaction. Each of our expeditions is designed to leave you fluent in something you didn't know before — a city's visual grammar, a cooking tradition, the particular joy of understanding how a bicycle moves through a landscape.
The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see."
— G. K. CHESTERTON