This Woman Walked 583Km From Mumbai To Goa And Here’s Why You Need To Read Her Story

When you’re afraid of failures to empower you, you end up doing nothing and just complain. Successful people don’t see this as an obstacle but as an opportunity.

Meet Aanchal Dhara, a Mumbai-based wedding photographer, who travelled from Mumbai to Goa, on foot. That’s right! She covered 583km over 26 days, by walking!


Wanting to escape from the cobwebs of urban life, the photographer, along with her husband launched ‘The Audacious Project’, a project that promulgates “audacious, life-changing experiences.”

Their first project was ‘Two Feet & A Dream’, that involved a 583-km walk from Andheri to Morjim (Goa).

 

She underwent physical training for such a mammoth task; walking for 583 kilometres is not something you take lightly. She began training 6 months before their maiden project.

Though she walked alone, she was accompanied by her husband and a photographer, Ranjeet, in a support car. Their car carried all the equipment to document her travel.

This is how her walks were planned:

1. Since they were starting in October, which was one of the hottest months of the year, Aanchal used to start walking at 6 AM everyday.

2. After walking every 7 kilometres, she used to take a 15-minute break, where she used to massage her feet in a support car.

3. Her walk lasted till 6 or 7 PM. At night, she used to go to a hotel and massage her swollen and blistered feet. This lasted for 26 days.

4. Though people consider a woman walking alone on roads a gruesome task, Aanchal found out that her experience was not that tough and scary.

 

Here are the photos from her 26-days long walk:

1. Day 1

 

2. Day 2

 

3. Day 3

 

4. Day 5

 

5. Day 6

 

6. Day 7

 

8. Day 9

 

9. Day 10

 

10. Day 12

 

11. Day 13

 

12. Day 16

 

13. Day 17

 

14. Day 18

 

15. Day 19

 

16. Day 20

 

17. Day 21

 

18. Day 22

 

19. Day 24

 

20. Day 25

 

21. Day 26


Amazing, isn’t it? Her determination never let her deter her spirit from achieving this ultimate task. 🙂 “It’s been a life-changing experience, ” she says.

Well done, Aanchal Dhara!

Source: Home Grown 

Images Source: The Audacious Project

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