Meet Sumit and Akanksha | Travel Influencers/Bloggers & IT Professionals

We had the good fortune of connecting with Sumit and Akanksha and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Sumit and Akanksha, what do you think makes you most happy? Why?
Travelling and exploring different places makes us happy. We usually forget living a life happily while making a living in life. When you go out and explore different places, you get new perspectives by meeting different people and knowing different cultures and the feeling of contentment you get when travelling to new places is unmatched. Traveling is therapy to us and that is the reason our IG page is named Sumiksha Travel Therapy. We have explored multiple places, crossed multiple items off our bucket list and the happiness and curiosity remains the same with every new place we visit and every different experience we try. The few things travelling taught us are knowing different people, learning new cultures, being patient and just soak in the beauty our beautiful mother earth has to offer. We get happy with the little things- hearing the sounds of waves, getting amazed by the beautiful views when driving/hiking, experiencing sunrises and sunsets, doing local activities, exploring local cuisine and cultures, clicking pictures and saving those for our memories and most importantly when sharing our travel series actually help people plan their trips!! Just LOVE everything about Travel and what it has to offer!!! The IG page we created during quarantine has helped us evolve in so many ways and help others with their travel plans that we feel ecstatic and motivated to travel more and focus on staying happy and making more memories to cherish forever!! 😊

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
We are travel influencers/bloggers who love exploring new place whenever we get a chance. We work into IT industry as on weekdays and become wanderers on weekends to explore a new place or have a new experience. One thing that sets us apart is whatever we create or share, we do not do it to gain followers. We do it because we love exploring and helping others by sharing our itineraries, tips and tricks for traveling! We receive a lot of texts about how a particular post/information helped them in their trip and how much they enjoyed that activity and that makes us the HAPPIEST. Few challenges every content creator face on IG is the ever-changing algorithms and reduced engagement but we always believed in passion to travel and share the raw and honest itineraries and experiences without getting bogged down with the numbers. We care less about the number of followers but more about enjoying the journey, making new friends, and exchanging different travel experiences with the amazing travel community.

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
We lived in Los Angeles and if our friends are visiting for a week below are the places, restaurants activities we are going to cover in a week:

Places: Hollywood walk of fame, Lake Hollywood Park, Hike to Hollywood Sign, LACMA Urban lights, Universal Studios, Warner Bros Studio Tour, Beverly Hills, Rodeo Drive, Grand Central Market, The Last Bookstore, Griffith Observatory, Day Trip to Malibu, Solvang and Death Valley National Park (Weekend)

Places to Eat: Bombay Palace Beverly Hills, Nobu Malibu, Perch LA, Indian Food at BAPS, Inchins Bamboo, Bombay Frankie Company

Activities: Hiking the Hollywood sign, seeing sunset at any beach (west coast sunsets are beautiful), bonfire at the beach, tour to see celebrity houses (if interested), clicking lots of pictures

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
We would like to recognize all our followers on Instagram who have been our constant motivation to keep on travelling, share our experiences and evolving. We started this page during quarantine with an intention to post the travel itineraries and tips which we thought we were not able to find during our trips. We had not idea that it would be so appreciated and we are completely in love with the fact that we are a part of an amazing travel community which encourages and supports us in every aspect. Also, another advantage of having an amazing community is you get to know about hidden gems and travel tips that you were completely unaware of which has definitely helped us refine our travel plans. The most important part of our journey was to connect and build relationships with like minded people for whom traveling is a therapy and we are glad we found those using this platform. Also, another shoutout that we would like to give is to our friends and family who are always there by our side and support us in every new venture we enter into!! Grateful for all amazing people around us!!

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