Many trips and overseas experiences all start with familiar patterns. People arrive at their destination. They see the main sights and take some pictures. It doesn’t really go much deeper than that.
But what if you want to scratch the surface, if you want something more active, something you can be involved in and something that can literally take your breath away in more ways than one?
Then you need to embrace active travel and slow it down, increase intensity and really see what the world is about. And hees howo yu na do exactly that.
Multi-Day Trekking Routes Through Remote Landscapes
You’re not driving through scenery here, you’re moving physically through it.
Think the Inca Trail, it’s one of the most well-known and popular routes for a reason and taking the route with experienced guides is only going to elevate the experience. It’s also the only way to experience this trek, so booking with companies offering tours like Explorandes Tours is essential.
Or you might prefer the Salkantay Trek that takes you through high mountains, cloud forests and remote valleys over several days. In both of these trips, you’ll experience altitude changes and different terrain, and you’ll require effort to push through the environment to get from one point to another.
Patagonia offers something similar for those looking for more of a challenge. But really, these locations are ideal for people who love hiking adventures and want to experience the world in a completely different way.
Guided Nature and Wildlife Experiences
If you love wildlife, then you need to embrace this for your next trip. Taking a guided walk, for example though the Amazon rainforest exposes you to more than the animals who call it home. You can uncover different sounds, tracks, patterns in behaviour and natures and how things move here.
Taking guided trips through places like Corcovado or Manuel Antonio National Parks offers the same type of experience. Now, this can apply to any ecosystem. If you have a guide who understands the area, you get to feel the wildlife and how they naturally inhabit the land they live in.
Cultural Activities That Involve Participation
Sure, many cultural activities are set up for observation only. Then, there are experiences that require you to get directly involved so you can get more of an immersive feel of how people live, what different cultures are built on and what these mean in a modern way of life.
It’s learning to cook local dishes with cooking experiences, visiting local markets to see how people shop and what they look for in the things they buy, and understanding ingredients, quality and the dish right from the very beginning.
In parts of Southeast Asia, for example, experiences are specifically built around daily life. Farming, fishing, and food preparation. Actual parts of the culture, not staged events for tourists. It’s not polished, but it’s real, and that’s the difference here. Not experiencing a glossy show of what the country puts out to those visiting is getting to grips with what really makes it run, and is at the heart of what makes each country special and unique.