Meet the
Gongangos.
Every guide here was built by someone who actually went. The Gongangos are our crew of been-there travelers — each one looks after the countries they know inside out. So when you read a guide, it's from the Gongango who's walked it.
G7R3
Founder
G7R3 is one of the Gongangos, and travel was basically handed to him at birth. Being an air force kid meant home was never one place for long.. he'd land in a new town, start at a new school, finally start to feel settled, until his dad says "let's pack our bags" and off they went to somewhere else entirely. He grew up saying a lot of goodbyes at his neighbourhood and schools and learned to make friends fast! Then came the very grown up chapter. A Chartered Accountant who found himself deep inside the Big 4 world, doing work that paid well and slowly drained something out of him. The kind of monotony that creeps up on you until one day you realise it has quietly taken over. He started travelling again just to get away from it, and somewhere along the way the getting away stopped being the point and the travelling itself became the whole thing Gongango did not appear overnight!! It is months of curating, writing down and piecing together his own travel stories, the messy notes and the hard won lessons, until it slowly turned into something worth sharing. Somewhere between a Chartered Accountant who realized monotony was draining his soul, and a guy who decided it was finally time to do the thing he actually loves
Srini
UAE Specialist | Wildlife Explorer
By day, Srini hunts down hard-to-find tech talent across the UAE. By passport, he puts the same instinct to two nobler uses: tracking down genuinely good vegetarian food in every city he lands in, and tracking down wildlife deep in India's forests. (The only kind of hunting a lifelong vegetarian truly endorses, naturally, is the kind done with a camera.) Emirates is his new home. So for the UAE, he's our guy for both the itinerary and the table. And when he's not there, you'll likely find him on a dawn safari, waiting for a leopard to decide whether to show itself.
Mythili
Philippines Expert | Beach-Seeker in Denial
Mythili started travelling for a simple reason ~ Independence What began as a quiet promise to herself In the pursuit of proving she could do things alone, slowly became something much bigger. Somewhere between missed buses, spontaneous detours, sunsets she couldn't stop photographing, travel stopped being a hobby and became a way of life!! Ask her whether she's a mountain person or a beach person and you'll get a different answer every time :P It's a debate she has been having with herself for years. But if there were a line drawn exactly between the two, she'd probably be standing half an inch closer to the beach, pretending not to notice. Her relationship with the Philippines began with a solo trip to El Nido. The beaches were too beautiful, the islands too magical, and the cliffs too dramatic. To this day, El Nido remains the place that convinced her that sometimes you don't have to choose between beaches and mountains!!
Check
Fact Checker
Travel info goes stale fast. The food app everyone used last year shuts down, a visa rule quietly changes. Our fact checker is the one who keeps Gongango honest about the practical stuff combing through every country's Things to Know, Apps to Download, and Local Phrases on a steady rhythm, so what you read today is what's actually true on the ground today. If a payment app dies or a SIM card gets cheaper, the fact checker already knows. The unglamorous work that makes the difference between advice from someone who constantly keeps track of updates in a country from a guidebook printed three years ago.
