{"id":1411,"date":"2021-01-17T22:25:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T22:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.travelslowly.de\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2023-08-30T13:41:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T13:41:09","slug":"basic-principles-of-slow-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelslowly.de\/?p=1411&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"10 Basic Principles of Slow Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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On top of Daecheongbong Mountain (1,708 m), Seoraksan National Park, Sokcho, South Korea, 2019. Picture: Anika Neugart.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

With Slow Travel the travel becomes a time of relaxation. Transport is not supposed to be a stressful interlude between home and holiday destination, but the travel itself. Slow Travel is a new and at the same time original way of facing the world. It is all about engaging with the surroundings. Slow Travel is ecologically sustainable and pleasurable.[1]<\/a> Travel author Nicky Gardner formulated ten ideas how to try Slow Travel for yourself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Start at home. The key to Slow Travel lies in your own attitude. This state of mind can already be developed before the travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. If possible, avoid airplanes and travel slowly. Take local busses, ferries and trains. While pace prevents a relationship to the surroundings, Slow Travel is creating one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. The joy about being at your holiday destination might be great. But the waiting for the arrival should not overshadow the pleasure of the travel itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Visit the markets and shops of the locals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Take your time and celebrate the coffee culture. Become part of a city and take a seat in a caf\u00e9. Then you are not a passive observer who is just passing through. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. Get a feeling for the language and dialect of the locals. Use a dictionary, learn a few sentences and buy a local newspaper or magazine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. Engage with the local community and take part in the local live. Choose accommodations and food options, which match the travel destination and which the locals would choose. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

8. Choose activities that also locals do \u2013 not what the travel guide recommends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9. Value the unexpected and coincidences while traveling. Late trains or missed busses are not annoyances, but new opportunities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

10. Think about what you can give back to the locals and communities, which you are visiting.[2]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> See Gardner, Nicky (2020): Welcome to Slow Travel Europe, In: https:\/\/www.slowtraveleurope.eu<\/a> (23.09.2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> See Gardner, Nicky (2020): Slow Travel Europe: Some guiding principles, In: https:\/\/www.slowtraveleurope.eu\/slow-travel-europe-some-guiding-principles<\/a> (23.09.2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Article by Anika Neugart<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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