slow travel | photo essays | field notes

Mapping the world through long journeys and small moments.

I chase stories across deserts, coastlines, and night trains. Expect practical itineraries, unfiltered field notes, and the kind of photos that smell like sea salt and jet fuel.

Photography Slow travel Remote work Night trains
Desert sunrise, Jaisalmer
Recent stop
Leh, India
Traveling next
Lisbon to Porto by rail
Gear
Fujifilm X-T5 + 23mm

Who am I?

Engineer by trade, wanderer by habit.

I write to remember and photograph to slow down. Nomadic Priyank is my living logbook of remote work sprints, overnight buses, mountain passes, and meals that deserve a return ticket. If you like maps, coffee, and stubborn curiosity, you will feel at home here.

23
countries wandered
117
days on the road last year
3
ongoing stories
cups of station chai

Fresh dispatches

Latest stories from the road

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night trains

Vienna to Zagreb while the world sleeps

Notes from a rattling couchette: strangers becoming friends over instant coffee and border stamps.

12 min read Nov 2023

india

Chasing dawn in the dunes of Jaisalmer

A pre-dawn climb, a faulty compass, and a morning painted in brass and rose.

8 min read Oct 2023

remote work

Making home on Atlantic islands

Work sprints, cliff walks, and balancing code reviews with ocean horizons.

10 min read Sep 2023

Itineraries

Practical routes to follow

Save hours of planning with routes I have stress-tested in every season.

Portugal

Rail-coast loop: Lisbon → Porto → Douro

Seven days of tiled streets, riverside sunsets, and pastel de nata breaks between rides.

7 days Budget: $$

Himalayas

Leh and Ladakh on two wheels

Monasteries, mountain passes, and altitude-ready coffee routines.

9 days Budget: $$$

Balkans

Adriatic slow roll

Ferries, fortress towns, and the best burek on a sunrise pier.

10 days Budget: $$

Photo notebooks

Scenes you can almost touch

A living gallery of textures, colors, and fleeting strangers. Each frame links to a longer story.

Spice market, Zanzibar
Cycling Reykjavik rain
Midnight tram, Budapest
Sunset chai, Jaipur

Travel is my favorite debugging tool: every new city exposes the assumptions I did not know I was making.

— Priyank

Stay in touch

Let us cross paths

Collaborations

Open to photo essays, brand stories that respect the traveler, and tech-for-travel experiments.

hello@nomadicpriyank.com

Elsewhere

Now

  • Editing: overnight trains mini-series
  • Researching: Silk Road caravanserais
  • Craving: masala omelette at sunrise

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