What: Away Without Leave (AWOL) travel fund, visit www.awaywithoutleave.com or find the Facebook group here; email entries to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Why: This new website wants to sponsor you and 23 other people on a three month journey around the country. The catch? You have to live on Rs 1,000 a day (including accommodation, travel, food, entertainment; and no, you can’t spend your own money); blog regularly about your travels; and maybe complete some tasks suggested by readers. All potential participants have to send in an entry describing why they want to change their current lives and be between 21 and 28 years old (be happy that you won’t have to compete with this Scouter, who NARROWLY misses the age criteria)!

When: You want to go siteseeing. Entries open.