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<h1>Journeys drawn for the <em>far side</em> of the map.</h1>
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<span>HIMACHAL PRADESH · 32.1°N, 77.2°E</span>
<span>PATAGONIA · 50.9°S, 73.1°W</span>
<span>NAMIB DESERT · 24.7°S, 15.3°E</span>
<span>HOKKAIDO · 43.0°N, 141.3°E</span>
<span>FAROE ISLANDS · 62.0°N, 6.8°W</span>
<span>ATACAMA · 23.9°S, 68.2°W</span>
<span>HIMACHAL PRADESH · 32.1°N, 77.2°E</span>
<span>PATAGONIA · 50.9°S, 73.1°W</span>
<span>NAMIB DESERT · 24.7°S, 15.3°E</span>
<span>HOKKAIDO · 43.0°N, 141.3°E</span>
<span>FAROE ISLANDS · 62.0°N, 6.8°W</span>
<span>ATACAMA · 23.9°S, 68.2°W</span>
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<p class="eyebrow reveal">What Is Yaara Trips</p>
<h2 class="reveal" style="margin-top:14px; font-
size:clamp(2rem,3.6vw,3rem); max-width:20ch;">A trip planned like a letter
to a friend, not a brochure.</h2>
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<span class="journal-tag">Where It Began</span>
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<p class="eyebrow">The Idea</p>
<h3>Started in a hostel room, not a boardroom</h3>
<p>Yaara Trips began as one traveler's answer to a simple problem:
every trip he planned for friends turned out better than the "packages"
everyone else was booking. So he started building itineraries properly —
real routes, real homestays, real seasons — instead of copy-pasted
templates.</p>
<p>It's built and run by <strong>Ishaan Kapoor</strong>, a developer
with a dream, currently turning this — his first real project — into a
startup, one trip and one line of code at a time.</p>
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<div><span>Founded By</span><b>Ishaan Kapoor</b></div>
<div><span>Home Base</span><b>Chandigarh, India</b></div>
<div><span>Started As</span><b>A first project, now a
startup</b></div>
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<h2>Fewer places.<br>Held far longer.</h2>
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<p>Most travel is optimized for coverage — more stops, shorter stays,
wider nets. We do the opposite. Every Yaara Trips itinerary is built
around a handful of places we have spent years earning access to: a single
valley, a single coastline, a single season.</p>
<p>Our trips are capped at twelve travelers, planned twelve to
eighteen months in advance, and led by specialists who live in the region
they guide — not fly-in contractors reading from a script.</p>
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<div class="intro-stat"><b>14</b><span>Regions Covered</span></div>
<div class="intro-stat"><b>12</b><span>Max Group Size</span></div>
<div class="intro-stat"><b>230+</b><span>Expeditions
Led</span></div>
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<h2>Current expeditions</h2>
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<p>Six routes open for booking across the next two departure
seasons.</p>
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<p class="stamp-coord">32.1°N · HIMACHAL PRADESH</p>
<h3>The Kullu-Spiti Ridgeline</h3>
<p>From pine-forested valleys to the high cold desert of Spiti,
staying in village homestays the whole way through.</p>
<div class="stamp-meta"><span>8 Days</span><span>May &
Sep</span></div>
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<p class="stamp-coord">50.9°S · CHILEAN PATAGONIA</p>
<h3>The Paine Circuit</h3>
<p>Nine days tracing the granite towers on foot, sleeping in
refugios and a single mountainside camp.</p>
<div class="stamp-meta"><span>9 Days</span><span>Mar &
Nov</span></div>
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<p class="stamp-coord">24.7°S · NAMIB DESERT</p>
<h3>Dunes of Sossusvlei</h3>
<p>A slow crossing of the oldest desert on Earth, timed to two
full moons for the cold, silent nights.</p>
<div class="stamp-meta"><span>7 Days</span><span>May &
Sep</span></div>
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<p class="stamp-coord">43.0°N · HOKKAIDO</p>
<h3>Snow Country Onsen Route</h3>
<p>Volcanic valleys, wild cranes, and ten nights across three
family-run ryokan in the deep north.</p>
<div class="stamp-meta"><span>10 Days</span><span>Jan &
Feb</span></div>
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<p class="stamp-coord">62.0°N · FAROE ISLANDS</p>
<h3>North Atlantic Crossing</h3>
<p>Island-hopping by small boat between eighteen villages, most
home to fewer than eighty people.</p>
<div class="stamp-meta"><span>8 Days</span><span>Jun &
Jul</span></div>
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<p class="stamp-coord">23.9°S · ATACAMA</p>
<h3>Highlands & Salt Flats</h3>
<p>Altitude-adjusted travel through the driest place on Earth,
ending under some of its clearest skies.</p>
<div class="stamp-meta"><span>11 Days</span><span>Apr &
Oct</span></div>
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way round.</h2>
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<p class="eyebrow">Chilean Patagonia</p>
<h3>Where the wind writes the itinerary</h3>
<p>In Torres del Paine, the guides plan two routes for every day —
the one on paper, and the one the wind allows. We've learned to build in
slack: an extra night at a refugio, a reversed trail, a delayed
crossing.</p>
<p>What you get in return is a version of Patagonia that rushed
travelers never see — the towers lit gold at 5am, with no one else on the
trail to share it.</p>
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<div><span>Best Season</span><b>Mar – Apr, Oct – Nov</b></div>
<div><span>Group Size</span><b>8 travelers</b></div>
<div><span>Terrain</span><b>Alpine trail, moderate</b></div>
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<h3>A season measured in steam and snowfall</h3>
<p>Our Hokkaido route was built around three ryokan whose owners
we've known for over a decade. Each evening ends the same way — an outdoor
onsen, snow falling, the valley completely silent.</p>
<p>By day, we track red-crowned cranes across frozen marshland with
a local ornithologist who has spent thirty years learning their calls.</p>
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<div><span>Best Season</span><b>January – February</b></div>
<div><span>Group Size</span><b>10 travelers</b></div>
<div><span>Terrain</span><b>Easy walking, cold climate</b></div>
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<h3>The clearest sky left on Earth</h3>
<p>At 2,400 metres and almost zero light pollution, the Atacama
holds some of the darkest, clearest night skies anywhere. We build in two
full acclimatization days before the altitude climbs further.</p>
<p>The final three nights are spent at a highland camp with a
resident astronomer and a telescope built specifically for the site.</p>
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<div><span>Best Season</span><b>Apr – May, Sep – Oct</b></div>
<div><span>Group Size</span><b>8 travelers</b></div>
<div><span>Terrain</span><b>High altitude, easy pace</b></div>
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<span class="coord">01 · Intake</span>
<h4>A conversation, not a form</h4>
<p>We start with a call to understand pace, curiosity, and what
"far" means to you — then shortlist two or three regions worth the
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<h4>Route built around season</h4>
<p>Your specialist drafts an itinerary anchored to the exact weeks
weather, light, and wildlife align — not a fixed calendar template.</p>
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<h4>Two rounds, no pressure</h4>
<p>You'll see a full day-by-day draft, adjust freely, and confirm
only once every detail — pace included — feels right.</p>
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<h4>One point of contact</h4>
<p>Your specialist stays reachable throughout the trip itself,
alongside your on-the-ground guide, from arrival to the last transfer
home.</p>
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<blockquote>We'd traveled to over forty countries before this trip,
and Yaara Trips still found us a version of Patagonia we didn't know
existed — three days without seeing another group.</blockquote>
<cite>— R. Alvarez, Paine Circuit, November 2025</cite>
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