Discover the Undiscovered? What does that mean, let me explain it to you. Discovering is finding something that is there around you but is still hidden. All you have to do is look at things more closely and feel it.
Before I was a local guide, and after being amongst the top 5% of local guides in Mumbai, the thing that remained constant was my love for travelling, exploring new places, learning different cultures and traditions, eating a varied variety of cuisine etc.
But the things that have changed is my way of doing the same thing, I started making notes of the do’s and don’t while visiting any place and share it with the world in order to help them. I started taking photographs of everything, I took care of the timings of public transportation, parking facility, food facility for vegetarian and many more minute things which we usually ignore when we travel. I started finding ways in which I could have visited the same place at a cheap cost.
Apart from all this, as I’m a trekker people who know me ask me about the local treks that they can do, foodie ask me about which dish they should try in a particular restaurant. I find all this fascinating and it kind of makes me proud. It makes me believe that I have accomplished something in life.
As time passed and I came to know that my reviews helped a tutor in his coaching service, my photographs lead to an increase in someone’s street food business and that was when I realized that the efforts was worth it.
You’ll still might be thinking what was undiscoverd that I discovered right?
Yes, you guessed it right I have discovered myself. Apart from discovering those beautiful views, those places off the beaten track, I have seen a new me after I became a local guide and all thanks to google for this local guide initiative which helped me find a new me and definitely that’s the most interesting thing I have done as a local guide.