Plastic and Sustainable Ways to Travel

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 geographic area.

Back to back, the talk was consistent and described what a typical 14 day tour entails, it consistently mesmerised the audiences showcasing the personal stories behind the famous train station and the rail service in Shimla.

By the way, Shimla is a famous hill station historically made famous by the British Raj establishment when it became necessary to escape the stifling heat season in the subcontinent. On top of all that, it was also great to learn how it is now possible these days to cut through the red tape and obtain an e-visa for India.

Expedition Leaders are experts in catering for the active and ethically minded tourist who can clearly benefit from specially created tours and explore off the beaten tracks by pursuing cultural routes, trekking, cycling sturdy mountain bikes, thus interacting first hand with nature, wildlife and the local population.

So far, tourists have enjoyed carefully led expeditions and bespoke tours to Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Ladakh, Sikkim, Kerala and Nepal. The event also presented to the audience Puran’s book entitled “The Himalayan Bond”, which was inspired by his traditional and humble upbringing due to his own parents instilling in him the love for Nature from a very tender age.

Feeling alarmed by the way India’s new generation is neglecting Mother Nature’s real worth and dismissing the value of the ancient arts and crafts from the rural areas, whilst being enticed by the higher earning employment prospects and bright lights of the big cities, Puran decided to raise the issue in order to preserve India’s ancient heritage and pay cultural homage to the traditional Indian community of artisans.

It is quite true that India is transforming itself at such a fast pace that only few people notice the need to avoid unnecessary collateral damage, manage that growth in a more sustainable and ethically minded way. In fact, things have reached such a stage that Puran actually felt driven to do something about the environment and clean air, therefore all travellers are encouraged to take on the symbolic act of planting trees. His new campaign  "A Tree For Clean Air" 

By the way, this is an activity that started first in Himachal Pradesh ( India, 2012) on a school expedition with Newark Academy students from a school in New Jersey (USA) and has gained consistent momentum ever since.

Last year for example, Expedition Leaders - managed to plant 200 trees in the 50 picturesque villages of Himachal and 150 in Rajasthan. In addition, it also managed to provide clean water filters for more than 400 students in Karsog Valley for different schools. In the meanwhile, the visiting tourists also had the pleasure of offering 350 goody bags filled with practical items like toothpaste, brushes, drawing books, paints, notebooks while pursuing cycling or trekking in the rural villages throughout India. These small acts of kindness, good will and humanity make a huge difference to those rural workers and artisans who struggle to remain self-reliant, faced hardship their entire lives and are simply not used to being given anything for free…Indeed, a far cry from any Western consumerist society.

Article by Rupa from bakasurablog  

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