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If you are in or from the Netherlands and in the mood for a unique way to travel, than you should check out our friends: The Tuk Tuk Company. With 40 colorful Tuk Tuk’s these guys offer an array of services, from taxi to special/unique events: The Night Life tuk tuk tour in Amsterdam for...Read More

Besides our annual rickshaw races: Mumbai Xpress, Tech Raid, Classic Run and the Malabar Rampage, we also organize custom rickshaw adventures for Corporates, Groups and Individuals based on their requirements. You choose the details: what, when, where, and how  –  and we take care of the rest. We call it  – Your Adventure. We can also put together...Read More

New route for the Caucasian Challenge 2009; an extraordinary adventure from Budapest, Hungary to Yerevan through the Balkans, all over Turkey deep into the Caucasus. Check out some of the changes: More stages on remote areas far from civilization More Albania (the favourite country of 2008), we double the experience of the Albanian Alps. Furthermore we...Read More

By the end of this month, autos from the city will take off on a 1000-km rally into the heart of the south Deft and tough, autorickshaws of the city have helped us see through several travails. They have withstood bumpy roads, speed breakers and traffic jams. This time around, they are all geared up...Read More

Rickshaw, the popular mode of transport in India, will soon ply the streets of the East Midlands town of Leicester, better known as ‘Little India’. Rides will be offered to shoppers and tourists free as the rickshaws will be sponsored by companies which will have their logos displayed on the sides.  Similar rickshaws were introduced in...Read More

Fourteen teams of world travelers will kick of the New Year 2009 with an epic 11-day endurance race which will see them making their way across southern India in auto rickshaws. In what is hailed as “An amazing race for the clinically insane“, the 2009 Classic Run is an endurance motor rally organized by Chennai...Read More

In the light of the Mumbai attacks, travel writer Beth Whitman gives 4 reasons why you should still travel to India: 1. India is a huge, sprawling country The chances that something will happen to you are miniscule. Imagine canceling your trip to Italy because there was a bombing in Ireland. You wouldn’t even consider...Read More

Chennai autos have been in the bad books of the locals as well the tourists for their bargaining and for not following the meter system as in other cities. The launch of the TFA or the Tourist Friendly Auto scheme has given these ‘auto-walas’ an edge above their counterparts who serve the local residents within...Read More

India’s leading travel search engine, Zoomtra.com, has launched a contribution platform for travel bloggers. The platform named Travel Blogs is a collection of hand-picked blogs written by some of the most eminent travel bloggers of the country. It is a one-of-its-kind platform that will enable travel bloggers from India to showcase and share their travel...Read More

The Gujarat government is planning a fleet of distinctively coloured auto-rickshaws, very different from the green-yellow paint combination of three-wheelers plying the state roads today. It plans to offer a toll-free number, ‘109’. And it wants to turn the rickshaw into the poor man’s Rolls Royce with services such as phone, newspapers, bottled water and...Read More