at a popular cafe in baner avid travellers animatedly recount their journey to the remotest corners of the country over a cup of tea some take notes and pen down their stories while others bring to life their peregrination into the wilderness on canvasas travellers both young and old reminisce about their journeys stories of friendship and camaraderie built with strangers of days spent in faraway land of love and longing and a yearning to revisit these places spill forthhelping the intrepid bunch of men and women document memorable events from their travels is citybased lityatri which brings together the wanderlust and travel writers to meet and share their experiences our main aim is to experience travel and document it says chandrakant redican one of the cofounders of the groupthough travel communities abound there are hardly any devoted to documenting journeys through writing painting storytelling or photography we are a bunch of people who want to do something creative related to travel we intend to make documentaries explore new cultures and places thats how the idea of forming a community came about so far 40 people have joined us since we organised our first meetup on june 8 says rohan pavgi one of the cofounders who is also a corporate film director and travel photographerfor them travel is not just a journey undertaken but an experience to cherish everyone has a different way of experiencing travel my way of doing it is to take photos some would like to write sometimes what we remember most are the people we have met during the course of our journey often we feel the urge to visit these places and meet them again there are many stories that tumble out when you step out you may want to pen down or document them thats where we would like to help says pavgithe community which claims to have no commercial interest says its open to any form of creativity related to travel we are open to any form of expression there are many who would like to document their journeys through paintings so if you can travel and paint we are up for it there are plenty of artists we want to collaborate with in future in pune there are a fairly large number of travel writers and bloggers and we were pleasantly surprised with the response we got from them at our meetups says redican who is also a poet and writerthe organisers tapped the social media to get the word out about their community that we are not a travel group helped people to look at us in a positive way at our first meetup 20 people turned up soon we started getting repeat participants says redicanthe organisers next hosted a foodwalk with members walking across the old areas of the city sampling food and documenting it our third event was a travel writing workshop on character sketching where around 18 aspiring travel writers turned up we discussed how we