Eco-Friendly Tourism

With the advent of the 24 hour news cycle, incessant mobile connectivity, fast and prepackaged food, the amount of disconnect we feel from the world around us is at the highest level it has ever been at.

There is a lot you can do both for your physical self and your emotional and mental well-being. Eating organic, buying local, raising some of your own crops or animals to installing sources of green-energy generation equipment around your home.

For many of us though, that is not something feasible. We are either too busy, lack the available space for such things, or feel like doing what we are isn’t enough to balance-out everything else in your life that’s ‘unnatural’.

A new style of retreat or vacation has come into being and they’re known as ‘natural living vacations’, ‘eco-friendly vacations’ and ‘eco-tourism.’

In a natural living vacation, you will stay in a place that is as eco-friendly as possible, with like-minded people in a place that has as small of a footprint as possible on our planet.

The level of comfort on these vacations can vary from bare-bones camping, to luxury villas in the African bush. Whatever you chose, or even if you go your own route, you can take part in a myriad of activities from animal safaris, hiking, community gardening and sightseeing of natural wonders.

The reasons why people go on natural living vacations are as varied as the places that you can take then at. Many people just want to get away from the 24 hour connections to technology of modern life, eat organic and healthy while cleansing their system and getting away from all hectic, attention-grabbing devices that modern life revolves around.

On a natural living vacation, the aim is to provide you with wholesome sustenance for mind, body and soul. You can feel good about the places you stay at that have a track record of being eco-friendly and get back to a more basic state of mind, free from all the mind and body pollutants that cloud our daily lives.

Not to worry though, going on a natural living vacation doesn't mean that you won't be unreachable by your friends and family, so you don't have to worry about not being alerted to an emergency. But when you go, do try to relax a bit and put the cell phone and laptop down.