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

Does taking a break from your phone or compꦇuter 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

Offbeat pla𓃲ces in the Himalayas are some of the top destinations for digital detox in India | Photo: Shutterstock
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Chandni 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 l🍷andscape, she starte♛d 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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