The Itinerary Wala

About

I’m Nitesh Parasher, and I plan these trips the way I plan my own.

I travel on an Indian passport from a base in the UAE, so visas, entry rules and what they cost are the first thing I work out, not a footnote. Every itinerary here is built the same way I build mine — then costed line by line and dated, so you can see when it was last checked.

Nitesh Parasher holding an Indian flag on a Himalayan pass, snow peaks behind
On the pass, Indian Himalaya

Hi, I’m Nitesh Parasher — the person behind The Itinerary Wala, and the one who researches and checks every page on it.

I’ve always enjoyed travelling. But what I enjoy almost as much is figuring out how to make a trip actually work.

  • Which cities should you stay in?
  • How many days do you really need?
  • Is that attraction worth spending half a day on?
  • How much will the trip actually cost?
  • Should you take the train, rent a car or fly?
  • And how do you fit everything in without turning your holiday into a race?

That’s where The Itinerary Wala started.

From trekking trails to international trips

My love for travel started in India, especially in the mountains. I’ve travelled across almost every part of the country, and spent years exploring places through trekking, road trips and independent travel.

Over time that curiosity took me beyond India — to places including Japan, Russia, Georgia, Armenia and the UAE. Every trip taught me the same thing:

A great holiday isn’t about seeing the maximum number of places. It’s about getting the right things in the right order.

That sounds simple. But building a genuinely useful itinerary takes a surprising amount of work.

So I started building the itineraries I wanted myself

A lot of travel content tells you where to go. I wanted something that also answered: how do I actually do this trip?

So The Itinerary Wala focuses on practical, day-by-day travel plans — not just a list of attractions. You’ll find realistic day-by-day schedules, recommended places to stay, travel times between destinations, suggested tours and activities, approximate trip budgets, transport options, visa and entry information, and the practical tips that save time and money.

The goal is simple: you should be able to take an itinerary, adjust it to your style, and actually use it to plan your trip.

I don’t pretend I’ve been everywhere

This one matters to me. Some of the destinations here are places I’ve personally travelled to. Others I’ve researched extensively but haven’t visited yet. I don’t want to pretend otherwise.

For destinations I’ve travelled myself, I bring my own experience into the itinerary. For the rest, I research them the way I’d research my own holiday — official sources, current information, transport schedules, prices and trusted travel resources.

And whenever something is uncertain or likely to change, I’ll tell you. I’d rather say “check this before you travel” than confidently give you the wrong answer. Entry rules especially depend on your passport and where you live, and they change with very little notice — every plan says when it was last checked, but please confirm with the embassy or your airline before you book anything expensive.

Why “The Itinerary Wala”?

Because that’s really what I am. I’m the person friends and family come to when they’re planning a trip.

  • How many days should we spend there?
  • Where should we stay?
  • Can we do these two places in the same day?
  • What will the trip cost?
  • Can you make an itinerary for us?

After doing it enough times I thought: why not build it for everyone? And that’s how The Itinerary Wala came to life.

What I believe about travel

I don’t think every trip needs to be luxurious. I don’t think you need to visit every attraction. And I definitely don’t think a holiday should feel like you’re completing a checklist.

Sometimes the best part of a trip is a slow morning, a great local restaurant, a scenic train ride, or simply having enough time to enjoy where you are.

The itinerary should support the trip — not become the trip.

What you’ll find here

The site grows destination by destination. Every new itinerary takes time, because I don’t want to publish pages just to increase the number of countries on the website. I’d rather have fewer useful itineraries than hundreds of generic ones.

How itineraries are made

Every page here is researched by one person, and that is the whole method — there is no content feed behind it and nothing is syndicated.

  • Sources are checked, not assumed. Visa rules, entry requirements and opening times come from the authority that sets them. Where sources disagree, the page says so rather than picking the convenient answer.
  • Dates are on the page. Each itinerary carries the date it was last verified, and that date moves when the words move — not on every rebuild. A travel fact without a date is a rumour, so you can see the age of what you are reading.
  • Budgets are costed line by line. Beds, food, getting around, things to do — totalled from the real figures in each guide, with the assumptions written out. No invented daily rates and no star-rating multipliers.
  • Nobody pays to be here. No pay-for-placement, no sponsored itineraries, no hotel or operator buying a mention or a position. Recommendations are chosen on where they are and whether they are worth it, and that is the only reason any of them appear.

Travel less like a tourist. Plan more like a local.