Some moments cannot be rescheduled.
A grid comes together on a Sunday afternoon in Monza. A million wildebeest step into the Mara River, on a day no calendar can predict. The aurora appears for eleven minutes over a sky in Tromsø. These things happen on their own schedule — not yours. You can plan around them, or you can miss them. There is no third option. Curated Trips exists for the moments that don't wait.
Why We Started Here
Most travel planning starts with a place. Ours starts with a moment. A race weekend. A Test match at a ground that only opens its gates a few days a year. A migration, an eclipse, a bloom that lasts a single week out of fifty-two. We work backward from the moment itself — securing access, timing, and logistics around it — rather than forward from a generic itinerary. This is slow travel in the truest sense: not slower pace for its own sake, but travel built around depth and intention rather than a checklist of destinations.
Meet Raghuu
I grew up in Goa — eleven to twenty-eight, 1980 to 1997, right up until I got married. Growing up somewhere built around welcoming travelers, both Indian and foreign, shapes how you see hospitality and travel long before you ever think of it as a career. I took my first real trip of my own at sixteen, and by twenty-five I'd covered most of India — Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, and a dozen states in between.
Career took over through my twenties, and travel became something I did less of. Then in 2013, between ventures, my wife said something I've never forgotten: "Physically you're always in Hyderabad — mentally, you're always in Goa." She wasn't wrong — that's where I grew up. Eighteen months later, that became a homestay business I built and ran across Goa, Karnataka, and Kerala, growing to over 1,500 properties before we closed it in 2025.
What came next was a line from an old ad that stuck with me: "the world has infinite experiences, find yours." That's the thought Curated Trips is built on — not stays this time, but the moments themselves.
These days I build it with my son, Abhijeet — I take the lead on Born to Watch, the moments nature keeps its own calendar for; he takes Built to Watch, the ones we build and schedule ourselves.
Meet Abhijeet
I started out in animation, not travel. My first job took me to Kerala — I only meant to stay a few months, but I ended up staying much longer than planned. It wasn't the job that did it. It was the roads I took to work, the food stalls I kept going back to, the friends I made without really trying to.
One trip stuck with me more than any other: the trek up to the Ayyappan Swami temple at Sabarimala. Most people get maybe ten seconds inside the shrine. I got over two minutes — pure luck — but honestly, that's not what I remember most. What I remember is the people I made the climb with, the ones who made the hard parts easier just by being there.
Kerala is what got me hooked. Goa, two years later, is what confirmed it — a week there in January 2025 and I understood the pull my dad always talked about.
But the trip that changed how I think about all of this was Mumbai, January 2026. I'd been a Linkin Park fan since I was a teenager, and I watched them play live, a few feet away, at Lollapalooza. I still don't fully believe it happened. That's the whole idea behind Built to Watch — some things you don't get a second shot at. You're either there, or you read about it after.
That's the pillar I lead here at Curated Trips — the family business my dad, Raghuu, and I run together. He's got Born to Watch. I've got this one.
How We Work
Most of a trip is decisions. Dates, access, hotels, transfers, timing — dozens of choices that usually take weeks of back-and-forth, especially once more than one person's opinion is involved. We build roughly 70% of that before you ever talk to us, locked around the event itself. The remaining 30% is yours — the parts that actually differ from traveler to traveler. That's not a smaller trip. It's less to argue about.
The more people traveling together, the more opinions there are to reconcile — a spouse who wants more downtime, kids who need a different pace, a friends' group where everyone has a say, multiple families trying to agree on everything at once. When 70% of the trip is already decided, there's a lot less left to negotiate.