Archana Patil

@archana

Editor & long-walk correspondent

Has walked the Annapurna Circuit twice and still packs the wrong lens. Writes about trails, altitude and the ethics of the extra day.

4 stories · about 14 minutes of reading

Stories by Archana Patil

Water

Seven days, four of us and one car: a night on the Kali river, four on Gokarna's beaches, and the best fish of the trip on the way home.

Pune to Gokarna, IndiaTravelled 24–30 December 20255 min read

Trails

Eighteen days, one pair of boots, and the growing suspicion that the point was never the pass at all.

Annapurna, NepalTravelled 20 October – 6 November 20253 min read

Wild

Four seasons in an afternoon, eighteen islands, and a scheduling strategy built entirely on flexibility.

Faroe IslandsTravelled 14–20 June 20253 min read

Trails

Six days across the Alta Via 1 carrying nine kilos, because someone else is cooking dinner.

Dolomites, ItalyTravelled 5–12 July 20253 min read