Enjoy home-style cooking, take a swim in a waterfall, cycle through open fields, meet the Gadaba and Mali tribes… forget about your city troubles for a weekend. Travel to the underrated Koraput Valley in Odisha with Desia. Discover Odisha and a little bit about yourself.

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Slow Travel

Desia was born in 2013 at a remote village Bantalbiri at the tribal dominated Koraput Valley located at the border of southern Odisha and Andhra. This is a responsible tourism initiative by Puri-based tour operator Heritage Tours. The basic objective of Desia is to provide an authentic rural Indian cultural experience for the guests from other cultural backgrounds, preserve the local culture, environment and bring the economic benefits to the local community at a grassroot level and empower them.