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Plastic and Sustainable Ways to Travel

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Non-Plastic and Sustainable ways to Travel are now much more urgent and important to follow:  In this technologically advanced, modern-day world where travelling to far-flung destinations has become more easily accessible, sustainability and our impact on the environment often takes a backseat when it comes to travel. Yet it’s important that we remain mindful about the places we visit, and our impact on the people we meet along the way. Expedition Leader’s aims to tackle issues of sustainability by offering visitor s a unique opportunity to visit local villages and help support the rural communities, learning sustainable local skills along the way.Immersing with the locals, and learning their crafts, arts and sports enables visitors to appreciate and respect the traditional ways of rural life. Embracing these simpler ways of living, that are in harmony with the natural environment, allows travellers to connect with their surroundings and pay attention to their personal i...
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Meaningful Travel & Green Footprints

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Meaningful Travel & Green Footprints Incredible India tours or Community projects with Expedition Leaders and in return to Plant - "A Tree For Clean Air"  We donate long-lasting water filters in rural village schools, so you have clean and germ-free water to be healthy  - in return you have to plant and establish trees to preserve forest and fresh air. Our traveller groups will donate trees and help you to plan them. But to establish and look after them is the duty of villagers and schools at each destination.  Trees are a crucial part of villages in the Himalayas  If people visit well established schools or tourist places or modern IT cities, they may miss a lot about the reality of the country, basic and sustainable life villagers live. Himalayan villages offer age-old sustainable ways of living and their way of living in harmony with nature. The Himalayan people and wild animals have found a way to live side by side from centuries. Planting padd...
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What to bring for Trekking - Equipment

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E xpedition Leaders list for moderate trekking in the Himalayan villages.   It is good to start making your list a few months in advance, check all your old things and sometimes you may already have it in your stock.  The second step is you can ask your friends for some of the things to borrow, otherwise, start buying and collecting your equipment one by one. Sometimes easy and best to ask your family and friends to give you these things as present from your travel list for your Birthday, Christmas and Diwali or for any other festivals or occasions. So it will save you some extra money to spend on your trip.  Here are a few things we need to make our trip a successful one and on top p ositive attitude and confidence with good walking, practice is best! Please check out our destinations and tours:  https://www.expeditionleaders.com/india-destinations Expedition Leaders suggested list:    Trekking Boots if used better S...
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Expedition Leaders with  a Sustainable Mission     "A Tree For Clean Air"    For  those who do not know yet, every year the prestigious Olympia Exhibition Centre in London hosts a brilliant event called Adventure Travel Show where visitors can become familiar with a wide range of choices in active travel and tourism around the world. This is how accidentally I came across the independent Expedition Leaders catering for those discerning travellers who are passionate about sustainable travel, ethical tourism and responsible practices.  Inside the Incredible Journeys Theatre, it was indeed a great pleasure to listen to the talk about rural tourism in the subcontinent called:  “A Journey to Rural and Best Parts of India” delivered by Puran .  Fortunately, this pleasant coincidence enabled me to be immersed in the rich culture of India’s rural tourism and get so close to the lives of the people who live in the same geograph...
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The Himalayan villages  are calling... Sustainable Tourism is a force for good, to bring a positive change amongst rural communities in the Himalayas and to change our holiday lifestyle Age-old skills and survival ways: This village are struggling to find a balance between old and new and on top earthquakes and poverty is gripping them deeper and deeper into struggle to survive. Many old skills and occupations are being neglected as big corporate companies, market and force their cheap and modified produce in. Village tailor, shoe maker or snack maker is going out of work, while the new generation rush for an expensive packet of crisps or a product made by machines in the outside world. Every hard earned penny is sent by villagers to these companies to gain a prepaid phone or any electric or plastic device. Skills are dying and villages are losing something so precious, which has been kept alive by their ancestors for centuries. So the villagers struggle in this environ...
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