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Every place in India worth going to. And proof that you went.
The ground behind these words is real, and so is every pin on it. We survey what is worth visiting district by district, record what it takes to get there, and the app checks you in where you stand — so what you have seen becomes a record nobody can invent.
- Destinations
- 2
- States surveyed
- 1
- In season now
- 2
- Badges to earn
- 4
How it works
Find it, go, check in, keep it.
Four steps, and the third is the one that makes this different from a list of places somebody liked.
Find it
Search by name, or open the map and pan. Every entry carries the road surface, the vehicle that gets there, the permit and the authority that issues it, the season, mobile coverage by network, and the distance to the nearest hospital.
Go
Download the region before you leave the last road that had bars on it. The map, the ledger and the places you saved all work with nothing behind them, because the drive that is worth making usually ends where the coverage does.
Check in where you stand
Open the app inside the boundary and press once. It is judged there and then — against your fix, against a token your phone was issued earlier, and against whatever your phone can truthfully report about itself.
Keep it
A verified visit joins a travel record only you can read, and counts toward every badge it advances. Made with no signal at all? It queues on the device and settles the moment you are back in range.
Right now
In season this month
Places whose window is open today, rather than places that photograph well in June. Every card carries the ground it sits on.
- North West Delhi, DL
VIPS-TC
Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies-Technical Campus is a private college in Pitampura, New Delhi
EasyAll year3 verified
Why it counts
Proof, and what it earns you.
Anybody can post a photograph of a place they have not been to. A check-in here has to get past four independent tests before it is allowed to call itself verified.
VIPS-TC
Inside · counts
Outside · refused
Schematic. A real boundary is surveyed per place and never leaves the database, which is why nothing on a phone can be aimed at one.
What a visit has to survive
Each signal is judged on its own and knows nothing about the others, so no single one can carry a check-in by itself — and a phone vouching for its own integrity is never allowed to be its own second opinion.
- A pin dropped from the sofa
- The boundary never leaves the database. A client cannot be given the polygon, so it cannot be aimed at.
- A visit written up afterwards
- The capture token is issued to a device in advance and retired the first time it is spent.
- The same photograph twice
- Every image is perceptually hashed on the way in, and its metadata is stripped before it is stored.
- A modified app, or an emulator
- Integrity and mock-location flags, the radio environment and the barometric altitude are all read at the moment of capture.
Recording a claim and judging it run as two different database roles. A traveller cannot verify their own visit — not because the app declines to, but because the connection that wrote the claim holds no privilege to settle it.
On the shelf today
- First Stepsbronze
Your first verified check-in.
One verified check-in. - Ten Placessilver
Ten different destinations, verified.
10 different places, verified. - High Countrygold
A verified visit above 4,000 metres.
A verified visit at altitude. - Spiti Circuitsilver
Five destinations in Himachal Pradesh.
5 verified places in one state.
Only verified check-ins count toward a badge. What each one asks for is published; the exact set of places that satisfies it is not, because a list of those would be a farming guide rather than a reason to travel.
What is on every page
Anyone can tell you a place is beautiful.
The question is whether the road is open, whether you need a permit, whether your car will make it, and who you call if it goes wrong.
The ledger, not the adjectives
Road surface, the vehicle that gets there, permit and authority, season, mobile coverage by network, and the distance to the nearest hospital. Recorded per place, dated, and shown whether or not the answer flatters the destination.
Every district, not only the famous ten
The catalogue is built district by district rather than from the places that already photograph well. A state with nothing listed is not a state with nothing worth seeing — it is one nobody has surveyed yet, and it is named as such rather than quietly left out.
It works after the signal stops
The map, the ledger and the route download before you leave the last road that had bars on it. The places worth the drive are, reliably, the places with no coverage at the end of it.
VIPS-TC
On every page
Read it- Where
- North West Delhi, DL
- Season
- All year
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Permit
- Not required
- Verified
- 3 check-ins
Curated and dated. Confirm locally before you set out.
Browse
Where the surveying has happened
Ordered by how much of each has been walked. Each one shows the country it is offering.
The part you carry up the hill.
Everything above happens on a phone standing in a valley with one bar or none. That is what the app is for — the site is where you plan and where the world can read what has been surveyed, and the app is where a visit is actually proved.
Tiles and the full ledger for a whole region, sized before you download it and deletable one region at a time.
A visit made out of range queues on the device for thirty days and settles itself the moment you are back.
One entry per place you have proved you stood in, and every badge it advanced. Private by default.
Android is in testing and iOS follows it. One sign-in covers both, and the site.
Run a homestay, a kitchen, a taxi?
Travellers reading a destination page are already wondering where they will sleep and what they will eat when they arrive. Listing is free, and every business is verified before it appears — legal name, registered address, and somebody we can telephone.