Synchronized with the origin of the Slow Travel trend, a protest movement against mass tourism started. It’s also referred to as “Overtourism”, which marks a harmful excess. In the year 2014, in Spain, one of the worldwide most popular holiday destinations, the so-called Tourists Go Home movement emerged. Barcelona has yearly 9 million over-night guests…
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Alpaca hiking in the Bergisches Land region
The Bergisches Land region offers verdant green hills, forested mountainsides, plenty of dams and glistening streams and rivers. The area, which is close to the cities Cologne, Düsseldorf, Wuppertal and Remscheid invites you to diverse nature experiences. A very special experience for the whole family is hiking with the curious but shy alpacas. Alpaca hikes…
Mongolia on Horseback
„A horse without a rider is still a horse, but a rider without a horse is just a human.”, as a Mongolian saying goes. [1] There are plenty of sayings from Mongolia that are built around horses – which shows how deeply rooted horse riding is in the Mongolian culture. The Mongols are descendants of…
Cave expeditions. Only for adventurers?
Jakub Kaleta has an unusual hobby. Since about five years, he is exploring caves on his own. These are short day trips, which take him out of his daily life into an alien world. It is a thrill and nature experience at once – a real adventure. He doesn’t need lots of technical equipment: usually…
Donkey hiking. Individual travel or guided day trip
„Donkeys, it seems, are an indispensable asset to the would-be slow traveller“, writes Nicky Gardner in the Slow Travel Manifesto.[1] Donkeys as transportation unite the longing for speed of the 19th century and the desire for slowing down of the 21st century. Earlier adventurers preferred fast donkeys over camels to cross deserts. Today, donkeys are…