Armed with her backpack, travelling to remote locations, with no booking, living in youth hostels on a shoestring budget, the fearless explorer also moved on to writing a memoir of the adventures and misadventures these journeys in a book, The Travel Gods Must Be Crazy.
Maneesha runs Kayal, the only property for tourists on the island in Kakkathuruthu. The island and the property were recently featured on National Geographic.