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Travel Tips by Shailza

Travel videos — journeys worth watching.

Four selected videos from Shailza’s YouTube channel — presented without distraction and ready to watch on any device.

Each video loads from YouTube only when you press play, so nothing is requested from YouTube until you choose to watch.

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Travel Tips by Shailza

Google Maps vs Local Knowledge: What to Trust on Mountain Roads

Navigation apps stay confident even where they should not be. When to follow the route on your screen through the hills, and when to ask someone who drives it every day.

Travel Tips by Shailza

5 Best Travel Apps for Trip Planning in 2026

The apps worth having on your phone before you leave — for mapping routes, tracking a budget and taking the admin out of a trip.

Travel Tips by Shailza

8 Indian Temples With Unbelievable Real Stories

Eight temples across India with histories stranger than the guidebooks admit, and what makes each one worth the detour.

Travel Tips by Shailza

7 Ground Rules Every First-Time Solo Traveller Should Know

The ground rules that make a first solo trip feel manageable — planning a route, choosing where to stay, and making judgement calls on your own.

What the channel covers

Travel advice built on kilometres, not press trips.

Travel Tips by Shailza is a practical channel about travelling in India — planning a route, choosing the right vehicle, budgeting a trip honestly, and handling the parts of the road that guidebooks skip. The videos come out of running RenTrip and driving the routes they describe.

Trip planning and tools

Which apps genuinely save time and money before departure, how to build an itinerary that survives contact with the road, and where digital planning stops being reliable.

Road trips and mountain driving

Route choices for Himalayan and hill destinations, when to trust a navigation app against local knowledge, and what to check before a long drive.

Solo and first-time travel

Ground rules for a first solo trip, judging routes and places to stay on your own, and building the confidence to travel independently.

New videos are published on the YouTube channel, with shorter notes from the road on Instagram.