Local Travel is a great way to satisfy your wanderlust yet stay safe in these uncertain times. Usually, traveling near home provides you with safety, plus you don’t have to rely on agencies or even other people—it’s a great way to have a solo adventure or a couple’s adventure. Additionally, traveling locally is very green since it produces minimal pollution and you get to see how beautiful your area is and awaken your eco-friendly spirit.
If you’re planning to finish this year with a short trip, here are five ways you can travel locally and stay green and responsible:
Hop on the train
One of the easiest ways to travel locally and stay green is to hop on a train and enjoy the mystery ride. Your drive can be quick or it can last a few days or weeks as you jump off and on at random interesting places. Every stop will have something interesting to offer, plus you’ll get to enjoy great comfort and beautiful views (cars and trains don’t share the same routes, so new sights will definitely blow your mind.)
And another thing, the greenhouse effect of gas emissions per mile from a train is 80% less than cars, and the only way to travel greener is by walking and cycling. So you’ll not only get to see your area from a whole new perspective but also be green in the process.
Go out camping
If you’re looking for a cheap and exciting way to explore nature and sites near your home, go camping. In certain countries, you can practice free camping, meaning that you can set up camp practically wherever you want. This makes for a great combination of hiking and camping—it doesn’t get any greener than that. You get to explore your area, rest when you want to rest, and stretch your adventure for as long as you have food and energy to go forward.
And camping can be very green in the environment. If you choose a nearby location, hike there and bring minimal pollutants, you can basically be completely carbon neutral. Of course, make sure to leave no trace or disturb animals and plants.
Have a boating excursion
Not many vehicles and vessels allow you to experience the world the same way as boats do. They provide you with freedom and give you peace and quiet only the ocean can provide. Plus, you’ll fall in love with the sea and become conscious of all the ways we’re polluting it and destroying its wildlife. And no, you don’t have to be a billionaire to enjoy a boat ride.
In spots with harbors like Sydney, you can easily rent a boat and have a fun excursion. There are practical and affordable options for boat hire in Sydney, so gather your friends and go exploring the city’s coast. Depending on your travel style, you can organize an action-packed excursion from Circular Quay to Manly or have a relaxing sail on a private yacht along Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs. This is also an especially fun way to mark a special occasion and a way to travel while respecting all the pandemic safety rules in your state.
Organize a road trip
If you’re eco-conscious, you might choose to avoid cars as much as possible, but the thing is that you can organize a perfectly eco-friendly road trip with a few tweaks. The first good idea is to rent a green vehicle that uses a mix of renewable fuels or less carbon-intensive fossil fuel. You can also choose locations that are near your home to reduce travel time. Just take a look at the map, pick a spot you’ve never visited before and start your ride. Find the shortest route to your destination and once you arrive, park and let your legs do the exploring.
Try Ride-Sharing
If you want to explore your country and meet new people in the process, you can turn to ride-sharing. This tradition is a great way to reduce costs by sharing petrol and reducing CO2 emission (one car produces less pollution than two). And don’t you worry about safety because you don’t have to stand on the side of the road with a sign hoping a good person will stop. Today, you can join communities participating in ridesharing apps.
Domestic travel is a great idea, no matter if you need a safe way to travel due to the situation or just want to green up your life. If you pick one of these ways to travel, you can be a very eco-conscious traveler whose hobby and passion doesn’t leave a black mark on the environment.
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in Guatemala. CREER brought several volunteer groups to help assist with projects at the learning center, including planting organic gardens, assisting with the construction of the new communal area, and helping to launch the new International Traveling Library Project.
As part of CREER‘s Land Stewardship Program, we have expanded our 8-year partnership with the Blue Banyan Monkey Sanctuary. This year, CREER will help to support five endangered species of monkeys, along with sloths, and various species of birds that are rehabilitated at the sanctuary. CREER’s volunteers have the opportunity to work with the animals while visiting Costa Rica.
In high school, for example, I went on a church “mission trip” to rural Honduras. I had no idea what I was doing, but the trip extracted me from my affluent, pop culture, teen life for the first time …and turned my worldview upside down.
people I wanted to help. I only know how it impacted me.
delivery of their online content. Her clients include teachers and practitioners of meditation, yoga, ayurveda, shamanic healing, astrology, and fine art. When she’s not writing marketing emails or designing landing pages, you’ll find Delana salsa dancing, practicing meditation, planning a trip, listening to a podcast, speaking Spanish, or missing all her faraway friends. 
us. What we learn from these projects and communities goes above and beyond the efforts firsthand. We leave feeling more collaborative, motivated, and with a fresh outlook. Most often this work creates more action. Karma Yoga creates more motivation to keep the service process going. Even with little time to put forth, the tiniest acts help significantly. The willingness to further our efforts and perspective, to create a global community is contagious.
For the ones that know about my family history, we have had a difficult time because of cancer. During the last 5 years, 2 loved people (my aunt and my grandpa) died because of cancer and at the same time, my mother is a cancer survivor.
That is why we are employing people from the village to farm in harmony with nature. That is our Happy Farm Project that includes planting what we eat, collecting eggs from the farm and growing tilapia. Our commitment is to avoid chemicals, pesticides, and herbicides while we have a responsible use of energy and natural resources to ensure healthy food and farm from today and for the future.
forgetting the other many activities we have been involved in… Too many good projects that are counting in our fight to create a better place to live, in our fight to show the entire world that the real power is inside you, inside me, the power of God acting through our hands.
Becky: The theme came to us quite naturally. It is Our intention for our participants to reconnect with the deepest parts of themselves and with this incredible Earth that Embraces us each and every day of Our Lives. Every day of the retreat will be dedicated to a different element including Earth, fire, air, water, and ether… There will be lots of magical representations of each intertwined.
Betty: I can’t specify an actual physical human who has been my greatest influence. My greatest influence has been Life itself. All of the “coincidences” (which of course aren’t just coincidences), the magic of being in the right place at the right time, the misfortunes, accidents and detours (that led me to the exact place I was meant to be) teaching me everything I need to learn, and handed me the tools necessary to face anything that comes my way. Traveling internationally has also been another one of my greatest teachers. Through 70 countries I’ve learned to navigate the world and it’s people; to go with the flow or to stand up for myself, to take care of myself and to look out for myself, when to trust and when that huge red flag of intuition shoots up. Of course, the people I’ve met along the way and in each stop of the winding path have made the adventure what it is so far, but that’s tens of thousands of people, and I certainly don’t have enough space to list them all!
Becky: If there was a yoga pose or meditation that describes me, it would be a vinyasa flow. I am constantly changing and flowing into this beautiful now moment… the only thing constant is change.
