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No Screens? No Problem: Your Guide To Planning A Digital Detox Vacation

🉐 Does taking a break from your phone or computer give you anxiety or a rush of joy? As more and more Indians choose relaxation as their primary motivator to travel, here’s what a digital detox holiday in India looks like

ജOffbeat places in the Himalayas are some of the top destinations for digital detox in India | Photo: Shutterstock
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𓃲Chandni Aggarwal wasn’t familiar with the phrase “digital detox” when she embarked on her first retreat into the mountains in 2013. She was camping by a river with her colleagues and their destination lacked phone reception. After many hours of chatting and marvelling at the landscape, she started to feel “the coordination between my mind and body as there was nothing to interfere with my leisure time. There were no upsetting messages to agitate my current balance. I went to bed dead tired, forgetting that I own(ed) a phone.”

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