About

Hi, I’m Jeetu — and this is PunyaPaths.

I’m Jeetu Kumawat. I live in Bhilwara, a small textile town in Rajasthan, India. PunyaPaths is the personal travel journal I started after my first big solo trip in 2024 left me with more notes than I knew what to do with — visa costs, hotel addresses, the metro fare from Delhi to Jaipur, the time I got sick from a roadside shawarma in Dubai.

I write the kind of travel guide I wish existed when I was planning my own trips: honest, India-priced, and written by someone who actually went there.

What you’ll find here

Every post on PunyaPaths is one place, written from one trip. I cover:

  • Asia — Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan
  • Europe — Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Italy
  • Central Asia & Caucasus — Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan
  • Middle East — Dubai, Jordan, Turkey, Egypt
  • Africa — Kenya, Tanzania, Morocco
  • Islands — Maldives, Seychelles, Fiji, Mauritius
  • India — Char Dham, Leh Ladakh, Meghalaya, Goa, Rajasthan, and pilgrimage routes like Kedarnath, Badrinath, Amarnath, Vaishno Devi, Mahakaleshwar, Tirupati Balaji.

Each guide answers the same things, because these are the things I wanted to know before I went:

  • How to get there from India, what the flight cost me, and whether I needed a visa
  • Where I stayed and what I actually paid (real INR numbers, not “luxury” or “budget” hand-waving)
  • What food was worth eating and what made me sick
  • The sights that were worth the entry fee, and the ones that weren’t
  • A full trip-end budget breakdown
  • Mistakes I made so you don’t have to make them

Why “honest” matters to me

Most India-targeted travel content online is either pure marketing (everything is “must-visit” and “world-class”) or generic scraped content. I’m not selling a tour. I’m not partnered with a hotel chain. When I say a place is overrated, I mean it. When I say I got food poisoning, that actually happened and I want you to skip that restaurant.

I do use a few affiliate links — Booking.com for hotels, Aviasales for flights — because they help cover the cost of running this site. They don’t change what I write. If something was bad, I’ll tell you it was bad.

About me, personally

I grew up in Bhilwara, studied locally, and started traveling seriously after I finished school. I’m not a full-time travel writer or a tour operator. I work in textiles (Bhilwara is famous for it), and I save for trips. My travel style is mid-budget — I’ll stay in a 3-star hotel, take the metro instead of taxis, eat where locals eat — and the prices I quote reflect that.

I write in a mix of English and Hindi/Hinglish because that’s how I actually talk to friends about my trips. If you’ve ever planned a trip with a desi friend over chai, that’s the voice you’ll hear here.

Get in touch

I love hearing from readers — corrections, questions, suggestions, your own trip stories. The best way to reach me is email: info@punyapaths.com. You can also reach me through the contact page.

Thanks for reading. Safe travels.

— Jeetu, Bhilwara, India