Padma Travels

Being out in Kummarikuntla, things move at a much slower pace than the big cities. Padma Travels is our small operation here in the Narsimhulapet area. We mostly handle getting people where they need to go, whether it’s a trip to a nearby town or a longer journey. It started with just one vehicle years ago and now we have a few more parked outside, but it’s still very much a local, family-run kind of thing. The roads around here can be a bit rough sometimes, especially after the rains, so we spend a lot of our time under the hoods of the cars making sure they are okay. People in the village know us well. They come over to the house when they have a wedding or need to visit a hospital. It’s not like a big travel agency with a glass office. We don’t have a website or anything fancy. It’s mostly just phone calls at odd hours and people dropping by. We know the routes around Narsimhulapet like the back of our hand. Sometimes the trips start very early in the morning, like four o'clock, so we don't get much sleep. We see a lot of the local countryside while we are out driving. It’s a lot of waiting around too, but that’s just the nature of transport. We just try to keep the vehicles running and stay on schedule as we can. It keeps us going.