Philip is a Delhi born Keralite who lived all his life in the Capital city except for a 13 year period when he did a stint in Tourism in Arabia; The Sultanate of Oman to be more precise and briefly in Dubai. In the early years of his career, while his peers were putting away money to buy their own house, he spent all his savings on traveling within India. His first visit to Europe was in 1987 on the invitation of the French Ministry of Youth and Cultural affairs, where along with six other compatriots, 6 Malaysians and 15 young French citizens he discovered the wonders of France where he has regularly returned for business, since having also learnt the language. The Himalayas remain his favourite haunt having travelled to Himachal and Uttrakhand in his college days, he is at ease also with the Bedouins amidst the sand dunes of the Rub Al Khali desert in Southern Oman, the Shepard’s in Rajasthan or with Tibetan Monks in Ladakh. When camping, he prefers, when feasible, to sleep in the open and uses his tent to preserve his shoes and rucksack from scorpions, cattle, dew and rain!!. Having been an active athlete he played some serious field hockey and soccer as a teenager, is an avid reader, a “self made” flautist, a foodie and a “seeker”. Now nearing almost 3 decades in the business, he still yearns incessantly to visit new places and wants to remain a traveller all his life!! He does not lose any opportunity to make others smile and finds solace in laughter and other things lighter in life. Philip deeply believes in the universal spirit of mankind and wants to continue breaking down boundaries between people of different backgrounds. He regrets that Love and Compassion are not subjects taught in any curriculum anywhere in the world and thinks that we are not alone in this universe!

Lovleen hails from the land of five rivers, Punjab and is deeply rooted in her local history and its culture. That does not stop her from feeling privileged to have lived all over India and especially spending most of her childhood in the Himalayan towns and villages across the Indo-Tibetan border, thanks to her father's interesting job. Her childhood exposure and her fascination of the multi-cultural India, its over-lapping similarities in language, music, food and art lead her to later on study Indian history, with a focus on art. Equipped with a Masters degree in History of Art, Lovleen almost became a museum curator!! She is glad she didn't as it would have deprived her of all her fascinating travels, interactions with people and experimenting with cuisine!

Her extrovert nature, her ability to make friends with perfect strangers coupled with her interests lead her straight to Travel. She started her carrier working in England as a trainee to an India Specialist, 15 years ago. She has never looked back since. She has escorted study groups, designed and developed products for high end customers, managed sales & marketing, run a Business Unit and she is happy contributing to the Destination Knowledge Centre.

She says she loves to discover small things on her travels and how cultures across the world are somehow connected; how each one has influenced the other over centuries of history. She is a self proclaimed Queen of Trivia on the subject! She also has an interest in Flora & Fauna and is involved with the Delhi bird watching society. In her free time, she devours on all kinds of books and finds solace in creative pursuits like pottery, painting and gardening. Her favourite weekend pursuit is experimental cooking for friends and family, not that they mind.

Her cherished holiday spot in India remains the gentle Kangra valley in the Himalayas, with its haunting Shepherd music, warm people and beautiful landscapes

Ravi was born in Lansdowne, an army cantonment and a quite hill station surrounded with thick oak and blue pine forests in Garhwal Himalayas. It was about 17 years ago when he first sailed on the Ganga with some German rafters. Those 05 days on India’s most venerated river changed him forever. Ravi felt a strong connection with the lofty Himalayas, the villages on the foothills, the abundant unspoilt nature and was mesmerized by the journey. That’s how it all started.

Ravi is a passionate advocate of slow travel and believes that one needs to slow down and spend more time in a destination. His philosophy while travelling is to loosen up and connect with the beauty of the surroundings, the people, the culture and the nature. At home, Ravi loves restoring antique furniture and recently restored his grand mother’s almirah and converted it into a bar.

He considers Delhi his temporary home and plans to go back to Himalayas to start a local musical group with the help of some of his musician friends in the not too distant future.

Somewhere between the ripples are a million stories, hidden in the folds of time... In case there is another such soul, who having wandered across from somewhere, ponder this: how about a cup of tea--or maybe coffee --and some small talk with the river dolphin that bobs up and down in these waters, on her way, they say, to a faraway land, where blind though she may be, she will dance to the music of the evening, for what she doesn’t see, she hears and she feels... (is it a her....? never mind, she must be)... But tell me this... would you like some tea or perhaps coffee?

Kuntil is an Explorer and travels all over the Indian subcontinent to make friends with locals and in search of compelling stories to inspire destination travel. With Philip, Harpreet, Lovleen and Ravi he manages the Destination Knowledge Centre which designs unique and magical experiences for the inquisitive savvy traveller.