About Buffyfish

Ladies, the experience begins the minute you sign up with BuffyFish Holidays.

Travel and vacations are meant to be relaxing, but more often than not, we end up stressing over booking the best flights and hotels at the most competitive rates. Then there is the hassle of arranging the visa, which means tons of personal and financial documentation. Once that is done, there is the itinerary to be made, cabs to be booked and sim cards to be purchased. By the time you get to your holiday, you’re exhausted!

Allow Buffyfish Holidays to step in and remove your travel stress.

Sit down with your girlfriends, pick your travel dates and your places of interest, and leave the rest to us. We’ll plan the entire holiday for you and your girls. Walk in with your trip idea and walk out with end-to-end detailed itineraries, right from a car at your doorstep for pick-up to the drop back home, and everything in between.

About Vidula

Vidula is an avid fellow traveler and till date she has visited 34 countries. Which is why she understands that girls value comfort and quality the most. Instead of visiting crowded places with commercial interests, isn’t an untouched beach or an unexplored fort a better option? Rather than having a meal at expensive gourmet restaurants, wouldn’t eating at local eateries be more delicious? But most travel portals don’t tell you about these places. After seriously considering these points, the model of Buffyfish emerged. To offer Experiential Travel to its customers.

Vidula has spent half her life in the mountains of the world. She lives to trek and has scaled some of the most picturesque ranges. Her love for the Himalayas can be easily discerned in the many treks she has planned and gone on herself. Walking the trails and living in some of the valleys of the Himalayas could be one of her fondest memories of these majestic mountains.

Her trekking journey began in 1991 when she went on her first trek, the Rajgarh-Torna trek. This is in the Sahyadri mountain ranges, located in the Western Ghats of India.

The trek bug bit her and she continued trekking in the Sahyadris for years after that. Her first Himalayan trek was the Gangotri-Tapovan trek. This 12 nights and 13 days trek upped her trekking skills even further. Other notable peaks in her trekking journey include the Kuaari Pass trek in 2009, Stok Kangri in 2011 (she couldn’t summit the peak but it was an incredible experience), and Everest Base Camp in 2012.

Her worldwide sojourns have led her to trek in Spain, Iceland, New Zealand, Slovakia, Chile and Peru.

Her one takeaway from the treks is how each of these journeys transformed her as an individual. The mountains grounded her, and she learned how to respect the mountain people and their cultures. Of course, she had to ensure that she stayed physically fit for all these treks. She strongly believes that there is no point in barely surviving the trek.

Vidula’s Capstone Project

Link: Adventures For Her

Description: I am a 40 year old married woman. In India some women stop exercising because they either take care of kids or just don't have any interest in staying fit. They always say "I was fit when I was younger" or "I used to trek when I was younger". I've been there myself and I just lost interest in staying fit. This project is to get women to transform themselves and give them a chance to get out of their comfort zone. I want women to experience real life, active and outdoor adventures like trekking, cycling, trail running by staying fit physically and mentally. We have a preparation stage where we train women in breathwork and meditation, diet and physical fitness. This stage can begin 3-6months before they actually embark on the adventure. The whole prep-stage is actually taken upon by interested participants and the whole team prepares together. The prep-stage is not mandatory but recommended by us. We have generic fitness plans that one can take up with their gym instructor or one can choose to work out in the community. Similarly, diet, meditation and breathwork sessions can be done with our instructors or the participants can choose to do these sessions with their connections as well. We have beginner, moderate and difficult level treks around the world that women can choose to go on. Our manifesto was designed and thought out after the course was finished. The manifesto has 3 points - 1. always respect the destination - the people, culture and environment. 2. be environmentally sensible - choose to take public transport whenever possible, choose recycling and reusing of things and objects, and leave the place better than you found it 3. transformation for the traveler - the preparation, the actual adventure or the experience and reflection before, during and after the trip. There are many areas before, during and after the trek, where one can connect with oneself, with the community, with the others, with the nature and with the infinite.

We've also included days on the trek where, during the adventure, the participants will observe complete silence. This was an inspiration from Gordon Hempton and Quiet Parks International

A Word From Buffyfish