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What inspires you? And what goals do you hold?

Nature, connecting people, fresh food, stories of change, the smell of the soil after it rains – we are driven by simple, earthly delights.

And our mission is simply to ensure that tourism’s impact on the same is a positive one. Our goal is to reach as many people as possible so we can be a part of the community-building project that the world is witnessing. The world has demonstrated a tremendous amount of compassion in these trying times and we can now see that we are as strong as the love we breed in our communities. After this pandemic, the global community of travellers need to commit to a culture of loving, conscious, harmonious travel. There is a huge

chance that this will influence the

industry positively and we need

to do our best to ensure that more

platforms and bloggers are talking

along these lines.

Slow & sustainable

travel is a way of

travel in which

the

traveller’s

growth is in

harmony to their ecological and

cultural surrounding.

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How can a trip be valuable to both

the traveller and the local

community?

We work with locally run homestays and guesthouses, cafes with permaculture gardens, restaurants that buy their produce from local farmers and retreats that support regenerative practices in their community, like reef restoration projects, reforestation, clean up drives and so on. The places we work with all have a positive impact and when we share their story with our community of conscious travellers, they are promoted within a network that supports and values what they do.

Communities are able to thrive economically while retaining their cultural practices and travellers are able to experience authenticity first hand, taking home more than just a cookie cutter experience.