BENGALURU: Travelling across seven continents would sound like a dream to most of us. Globetrotting duo Prasanna Veeraswamy and Sangeetha Ranganath have managed to accomplish this in less than 20 years. The couple began their expedition across the globe in the year 1999 from the United States.
As a child, Sangeetha had widely travelled across India and her passion for travelling was stoked at an early age of four when she visited Taj Mahal and Kashmir on the same trip. Her husband Prasanna had applied for his passport only at the age of 24 for work purposes, and he says that there has been no turning back ever since then. He has visited 170 countries. Their first international holiday was to England and Scotland.
Forfeiting Material Possessions
Their shared love for reading, history, food and drinks prompted them to go across the world to explore different cultures.
When asked about how they managed to fund their trips, Sangeetha says, “Prasanna and I were employed in the US for ten years at Microsoft and Amazon respectively, and that helped us manage our trips.
We have never wanted to own a house or a car; we also did not have kids. We are passionately committed to travelling”. She also says that their initial trips were possible because of good travel deals that were available in the US.
Need to Adjust
Being a vegetarian Sangeetha used to find it hard to explain her choice of food items abroad. However, she says that as they both learnt Spanish over the years, it was of immense help in South and Central American countries as well as a few European nations.
Speaking about time management she says, “We utilise every holiday we get, and most of our trips are intense.
We would cross borders late at night and stay up to explore. Also, we used to take complete advantage of work from home opportunities in the US.”
Creating Memories
One of the scariest experiences they faced was during their trip to Mayotte, an island near Madagascar in Africa, where they were stuck amidst political riots against the government for two days, without any means of transport. Reminiscing about s
Both of them are currently working in India and the duo had recently spoken about their experiences at ‘The Lime Diaries’, which was held at The Humming Tree, Bengaluru.
They have more exciting plans in store for their future. Their next goal is to visit all the African nations. Libya, Congo, Sudan and Algeria is on their minds for the next trip.