Peak& Fathom

About

Hi, I’m Yoki.

My full name is Yokeshbabu. I trained as an engineer, and at 21 decided that travel was how I’d work out who I was. It started with backpacking on a budget I’d saved for six months. Then came a mountaineering course, then my own travel company, Hygge Journeys, then becoming a scuba diving instructor. And it keeps going.

When I started this blog back in 2015, I thought life was all about travelling to new places, seeing new things and meeting new people.

Over the years my perspective changed. I don’t want to travel to every place in the world anymore. I’d rather explore places and new skills together: learning things from scratch, and following whatever catches my interest. This blog is where I write it all down.

— Yoki

The path so far

  1. 2012

    Big dreams

    Finished school in a small town wanting to become an astronomer, fall in love, earn big and live in luxury.

  2. 2015

    First solo trip

    Ooty, and the night-before fear that shows up every time and gets ignored every time.

  3. 2016

    Out of Tamil Nadu

    Straight after my engineering exams I went alone to Meghalaya and walked the 3,000 steps down to Nongriat.

  4. 2017

    A mountaineering course

    Twenty-eight days in Kashmir with an ice axe, a crampon and no idea what my instructor was shouting.

  5. 2017

    A company begins

    I started Hygge Journeys and went scouting Rajasthan.

  6. 2019

    Over the border

    My first trip abroad: Bhutan, and the climb to Tiger’s Nest.

  7. Now

    Below the surface

    Now a scuba diving instructor. The underwater stories are coming.