Meet your
trip leads.
Every community trip is run by someone who knows it cold — the route, the stops, the rhythm of the days. These are the Gongangos who lead on the ground, so you always travel with someone who's walked it before.
G7R3
Trip Lead
The whole idea for Gongango's community trips came from a compartment full of strangers heading to Goa. It was a trip run by the Coimbatore Adventure Club, and he went not really knowing a single person on it.. and came back with friends he never expected to make What stayed with him was not Goa at all, it was what happened between the people. Everyone climbs onto that bus carrying their own bag of worries and their own sense of who they are, and then somewhere along the way all of it just dissolves!! The whole idea of self importance vanishes, and what kicks in instead is this quiet realisation that everyone is living a completely different life, and there is something to learn from every single person you meet That is the kind of trip he leads now. Zero judgement, no pretending to be someone you are not, just people from totally different places and mindsets learning to adapt and mingle and actually see each other. You always come away with something, a story, a new way of looking at things, a friend you would never have crossed paths with otherwise He is from Coimbatore, works in Chennai, and still cannot honestly tell you which of the two is closer to his heart
Keshav
Trip Lead
Salem born and seemingly powered by something the rest of us can't access, Keshav is the trip lead who never quite runs out of energy. A footballer at heart, he brings that same momentum to a group of strangers and has a natural knack for organizing means he's usually the one rallying everyone for the next thing, whether it's a game, a group hike, or a late-night conversation that nobody wants to end. He's a people person in the truest sense: fond of travel, happiest meeting new faces, and gifted at the quiet art of making a group actually gel. There's a calm underneath it too :P Keshav is a spiritual sort, and it shows in how he reads a room, noticing the person who's gone quiet and making sure nobody's left on the sidelines. All of it usually delivered with a smile that's hard not to catch. If you're traveling with us, Keshav is one reason a group of solo travelers turns into a group of friends and the reason you'll head home having had a genuinely good time.
