A group seated in a boat on the Yamuna, a Delhi Metro train crossing the bridge overhead

CityScapes

The eco-walks, renamed. A river bank, a landfill, a ridge forest, a heritage water system — all of it already inside Delhi, all of it reachable before lunch.

What we do

Two to four hours inside the city, at the six places it would rather you did not look at.

1,000⁺ Walks run in two decades 100,000⁺ People on them in two decades

What it sets out to do

Fit inside a school morning

The objective is a trip that needs no night away and no budget line. If it takes a fortnight to arrange, it does not happen.

Stop at what people drive past

The aim is not to show anybody somewhere new. It is to make somebody stand still at a place they already pass twice a week.

Be the cheap first step

This is meant to be the trip a school takes before it risks a longer one, and to cost little enough that risking it is easy.

Give the same group a second reason

Six of them exist so a class can come back to a different argument in the same city instead of ticking the city off.

A line of people wading through shallow water at a reed-lined wetland edge, bags held clear

Distance was never the reason nobody went.

Every one of the six is inside the city limits. Whatever has kept people away, it was not the map.

Strategy and activities

Two to four hours, and no coach

Short enough for a school morning or a Saturday. A river, a forest and a landfill are each under an hour away.

Six walks, six arguments

Yamuna, landfill, forest, bird watching, heritage, restoration park. Every one of them is somewhere Delhi already is. The walk is only the part where somebody points.

The rest of how it runs

The lowest-friction thing we run

No overnight, no permission slip for a night away, no coach across three states. It is also how a school finds out whether its students want the twelve-day version.