IITians develop website for Indian travel lovers

Sept. 29, 2009 - PRLog -- Be it a family tour, a bachelor party trip, an official outing, a honeymoon, a travel lover’s venture into nature, a mountaineer’s deeds and misdeeds – you can log all your trips, tours, trekkings to tickle your fellow travellers with your adventures and misadventures; and you can find trips of your need and travellers of your taste, all at one place, all traveling to their destinations of fun, frolic, food, fairs, fetishes, foot massages, festivals: Get fida on traveling.

Guidingshadow.com (developed by two IIT alumni – Satish Kumar from IIT Kharagpur and Ankur Gupta from IIT Kanpur) is a complete online service for trip logging. This innovative web product helps travellers across India upload their pictures, share their experiences, manage their trip itineraries, pen their daily affairs in an online diary, seek help from fellow travellers’ web pages.

"Online travel agencies help you find a destination, best flight fares and best accommodation. But what do you do once you go there? How do you plan to go around the places?" said Satish. Instead of relying on word of mouth from friends, friends’ friends and their friends; instead of buying maps and marking red your destinations while picking noses; instead of browsing through scores of tiresome web pages; instead of sighing and catching your head; get Real at guidingshadow.com. It is real as it shows the experiences of travellers who have been there already, seen what needs to be seen, did what needs to be done. Read what they have to say; for what cannot be said, resort to their picture collections.

"It is these experiences that travellers are going to remember forever, rather than the flight they took or the hotel they stayed in. So plan your trips by exploring trips created by real travellers at GuidingShadow.com". And well, few years down the line, the site promises all the nostalgia the travellers deserve.

For such reasons, the entrepreneurs found the need for an organized way to arrange the user generated content on tourist destinations in India, before they quit their high paying jobs to start their own venture. Their passion and entrepreneurial spirit are the driving elements for the venture. They believe niche UGC websites have a good potential in the near future.

This is as much a site for a school boy, a college grad, a bachelor, a parent, a retired rooster rocking in his chair, twiddling his thumbs, as it is for a Hiuen-Tsiang, a Vinobha Bhave or an adventurous Indiana Jones!

So why wait? Refresh your memories and log your trips at guidingshadow.com. Rediscover traveling!

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About Guiding Shadow:
Guiding Shadow is a trip logging online service. Guiding Shadow team is constantly working to develop products which make the trip planning task easy for a traveller.

It's goal is to develop a complete set of products helpful for a traveller starting from trip planning to booking tickets to sharing experiences and many more.

In this process, guidingshadow.com presently support trip logging service.