We run trips at three lengths, and the difference between them is not really about distance. It is about how much of your own head you get back.
Two days, one night
A short reset. You leave on a Friday night or early Saturday and you are back Sunday. There is time for one place and not much else.
Best for: A first try, or a month where a longer trip is not happening. It is genuinely better than not going.
Three days, two nights
The one most people take, and the one we would suggest starting with. Friday night out, Sunday night back, no leave spent. Two nights is the point where the trip stops feeling like a rush.
You get a full day in the middle with nothing scheduled around travel, which is where most of the actual rest happens.
Six days
A different kind of holiday. Enough time to stop checking your phone out of habit, cover more than one part of a region, and have a slow day without feeling like you wasted one of two.
This needs leave, so it is worth planning rather than booking on a whim.
How to choose
- Never done one: three days
- Testing whether you like the format: two days
- Actually burnt out: six, and do not stack anything else around it
- Travelling with someone who is unsure: three days, so nobody is committed to a week
Our recommendation: Three days and two nights, on a weekend, for a first trip. It costs you no leave and it is long enough to tell whether this suits you.
What does not change with length
Group size stays small whatever the length, usually around ten, and every trip page lists its own cap. Stay, meals, local transport, activities and a trip lead are arranged on all of them, and you make your own way to the Bangalore pickup point.
