The Himalayan Villages are calling

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...

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...