Who we are
A ronin is a samurai without a master. We’re travellers without a desk.
Ronin Road Adventures started in the back seat of a shared cab somewhere between Manali and Kaza, around the time the road stopped being a road. Two friends, one half-charged camera, a thermos of chai that had long gone cold, and the slow realisation that we’d been planning other people’s trips for free for years. Somewhere past Kunzum, the idea stopped being a joke.
We’d already done the thing most people do once — the big Ladakh loop, the Hampta Pass crossing, the “let’s just see what Spiti looks like in January” trip that nobody warned us about. We kept going back. Friends kept asking to come along. Eventually we gave it a name, put it on Instagram, and that’s roughly how you ended up here.
Today we run small-group treks and road trips to the places we keep returning to ourselves — Hampta Pass when the meadows are green, Kheerganga for the hot springs and the terrible-but-perfect Maggi at the top, Spiti in winter when the valley goes silent and white, Ladakh when the passes finally open, and Jibhi for when you want pine trees, a river, and nothing on your calendar. Every so often we point ourselves at Thailand too, because the sea has its moments.
The two people behind the handle
Ojasvi Arora — “O.G.” · @travel_with_o_g
Travel content creator, serial explorer, and the reason our reels look the way they do. O.G. has been filming roads, ridgelines and roadside chai for years — the kind of person who’ll stop the vehicle for a cloud. Has crossed Hampta Pass more times than is strictly reasonable, spent a winter morning at Chandratal with a frozen camera, and still gets quiet at the first sight of the Spiti river from the Kaza road. On trips, O.G. is your hype-man, your photographer, and the voice at 5 a.m. saying “trust me, the light is worth it.”
Ayushi Singh · @ayu_stratmaster
The strategist. --If O.G. is the one asking “what if we go there?”, Ayushi is the one who figures out the permits, the route, the homestay in a village of eleven houses, the backup plan, and the backup to the backup plan. She’s the reason our Ladakh trips have an acclimatisation day nobody argues with, and why the winter Spiti group has always had a warm room waiting at the end of a long drive. The handle isn’t a joke; the itineraries really are that organised. On the trail, she’s the pace-setter who somehow also remembers everyone’s snack preferences.
How we do things
Small groups. The kind where you know everyone’s name by the first evening, not the kind where you need a headcount.
Routes we’ve driven and walked ourselves. We don’t resell trips. We run them.
Real stays, real food. Homestays, local kitchens, and at least one dinner that becomes the trip’s running joke.
Honest briefings. Altitude is real, weather changes its mind, and we’ll tell you both before you book — not on day three.
WhatsApp first. Dates, doubts, “is this trek okay for a first-timer?” — message us. A human replies, usually from a place with one bar of signal.
Why “Ronin”?
Because the best trips don’t answer to an office. No fixed desk, no fixed script, just a road, a plan good enough to keep you safe, and loose enough to stop for the view.
Tell us what you have in mind. We’ll help you figure out the next step.