Eco Travel
Traveling around the World and reducing your carbon emissions is a great way to find joy and solace as well as going on holiday and having fun on the cheap. You can eco travel in many ways as a volunteer for an aid organization or charity or even go on a working holiday and get your expenses paid totally free or with little cost. You can choose local or exotic destinations based on your preference and there are limitless travel opportunities for the Eco Traveler at Large.
What you need to do first is to see what your time schedule is. Do you want just a short break in maybe some remote Eco village or a habitat of sustainable living systems? Or would you prefer a long haul project type of holiday where there may be some voluntary work involved. Once you have ecided this then you can search by location preferred the type of eco holiday you would love to embark on.
There are numerous animal preservation projects dotted all around the Globe and they are a wonderful way in which to get back in contact with nature and the Environment. From animal rescue work in Thailand to Overland African projects you can find your wildest Eco dreams coming to life in full color before your eyes. If you are in Europe another great Eco holiday can be spent at the Eden Project in Cornwall, U.K as this is a great ecological experiment and has lots of organic gardens and all sorts of plants to delight the ecological Eye. Eco travel means a more responsible attitude to tourism and there are now many companies offering special deals and carbon offsetting travel that will minimize your carbon footprint which will enable you to enjoy your vacation more by looking after the Planet in the process. Not only is this rewarding for you but a comfort to many others with whom you may come to help through responsible eco travel.
Other great ways to do eco touring is by cycling around to get to your destination which is both refreshing and stimulating for your body and a way in which you can see unspolt countryside and places the average Tourist doesn’t get to see among other things. There again are many cycling tours availabel wit fixed itineries and other groups so that you don’ have to go it alone or feel lost. Other good eco holidays are with trekking groups and the Hymalayas and Alps are a good choice for this. Bhutan which is a country situated between India and Nepal is very up on Eco Tourism and the King there has even matched responsible government with economic growth moving hand in hand with ecology in ordeer to preserve their natural and cultural heritage which is a boon for locals and toursit. Bot Iceland and Bhutan are great examples of countries that have embraced sustainable living and greener thinking in their political World.
