Groups are where Koraput gets complicated: too many people for one car, too few for a bus. One Traveller with a local team removes the coordination, and this page shows how a group day actually runs.

Group size
8 to 17 people
Vehicle
One 17-seater AC Traveller
Best plans
2 to 4 days
Support
Driver + WhatsApp contact

Included in the quote

  • The 17-seater AC Traveller
  • Driver and fuel
  • Tolls, parking and permits
  • The agreed route from start to finish

Not included, paid by you

  • Meals
  • Entry and camera tickets
  • Hotels for your group
  • Guide fees where a site has its own guides

One group. One vehicle. One trip.

With three or four small cars, the group splits at every stop: different drivers, different arrival times, phone calls to find each other, luggage in the wrong car. With one Traveller everyone leaves together, hears the same explanation at the same viewpoint and eats together. It is a simpler trip, not just a cheaper-to-coordinate one.

  • One pickup at the station or hotel, one departure time.
  • One route the driver already knows, with the stops agreed the night before.
  • One contact on WhatsApp for the whole group's questions.
  • One luggage space, loaded once.
Side view of the Ananta Traveller showing the full window lineReal photo · our Traveller
Seventeen seats, one window line.

How a group day runs

Departure is fixed the evening before. Breakfast is on the road on early days (Deomali) and in town on easy days. We stop every 60 to 90 minutes on ghat roads. Lunch is at a known place on the route, booked ahead for large groups where possible. Long days end before dark; short days leave time for Kolab or the town temple in the evening. See the 3-day plan for a real example.

Seating for a group

Inside the Traveller: pushback seats in a 2+1 layout with curtains and an overhead rackReal photo · our Traveller
Pushback seats, two on the left and one on the right of the aisle.
  • Rows of 2+1 pushback seats with armrests and a back bench of four. Elders and anyone prone to car-sickness sit in the front rows.
  • Seventeen travellers with hand luggage is comfortable. For big suitcases, 12 to 14 people is the honest number.
  • Children count as passengers; there are no extra fold-down seats.

Hotels and meals for 8 to 17

Koraput town and Jeypore have the most rooms; Semiliguda and Sunabeda have a few. For a group of this size book early for winter weekends and holidays, and ask us for options that suit the route. We do not sell hotel packages, so you pay hotels and restaurants directly and choose what you like.

Kinds of groups we plan for

  • Families with elders and children: shorter days, sunset instead of sunrise, front-row seats, frequent stops.
  • Pilgrim groups: Sabara Srikhetra and Gupteswar, with Shravan crowds in mind.
  • Friends and college groups: Deomali sunrise, Duduma, Maliguda's railway, and long photo stops.
  • Office and club outings: a fixed plan, fixed timings and one invoice.
Groups larger than 17? Tell us; two vehicles travelling together can be arranged with partner operators, but we will say so plainly rather than promise our own second Traveller.