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Responsible | Peru Travel Blog
4y ago
…to all of you who have donated to our crowdfunding for our team of guides, drivers, and other important providers in Peru. In the past weeks, we have asked many of our partners in Peru whether they wanted to benefit from these donations, gathered the necessary details of all of them, and calculated how much each of them could receive.
In this report, we tell you what we’ve done with previous donations and ask you to please consider donating (again). See below for link and details.
Link to crowdfunding page (in Dutch, English, and German)
Link to “betaalverzoek” (Dutch bank accou ..read more
Responsible | Peru Travel Blog
4y ago
Traveling has so many and varied benefits, that it is shocking to think about the negative impacts that doing it irresponsibly can cause.
What happens is that, in most cases, how harmful the activities related to a trip can be is ignored.
Source: Google
First, success (and/or development) is often assessed based solely on the economy. And it is clear that this is a relatively easy indicator to see, but it does not necessarily reflect what is happening in the background, because do we know where the money goes in the end?
Thus, relying on a single indicator is a li ..read more
Responsible | Peru Travel Blog
5y ago
#traveltomorrow
Although Internet traffic is saturated during these quarantine days, and as much as we would like to recommend real books, instead of online resources, we have no choice but to opt for the latter, since currently there are no open bookstores nor e-stores with home delivery.
So, accepting reality, but recognizing the virtues of modernity, we suggest (when the time is correct) to take a look at the following sites that keep treasures of our country in a virtual way.
For museum lovers, there are five options within the Google Arts & Culture platform, with collections of avan ..read more
Responsible | Peru Travel Blog
5y ago
Boy, these days; they have become weeks and we hope will not add more months to the period of crisis due to the pandemic, they must be teaching us something. We must ensure that this is the case.
How sapiens are we if we cannot see beyond our present and ignore the past?
Cover image: Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights
Our species is about 300,000 years old on Earth, where life emerged approximately 3,500,000,000 years ago, which attributes a permanence of less than 0.001% in relation to the existence of life in general on the planet.
Thanks to our brain, the largest in propor ..read more
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5y ago
We don’t want to seem like dreamers (although we are), or hippies (although there’s nothing wrong with that), but we do want to be idealists, the idealists that believe that every trip must have a purpose, that every company can be a social-environmentally responsible one, and that every aguaje palm can give fruits without being cut down.
Maybe, dear reader, you’ve never heard of it, seen it, much less tasted aguaje, maybe with a different name, but possibly not even like that. However, this Amazonian palm from which its fruit receives the same denomination, extends widely throughout the re ..read more
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5y ago
It might be the first time (it might not) that this term that has the whole world watching is heard so much, but to be honest, we just have to investigate a little and remember that this isn’t necessarily something new and that we shouldn’t be paralyzed waiting for this emergency to blow over.
“Coronaviruses are types of viruses that infect the respiratory system. They are found in both animals and people. Coronavirus infections in people are common throughout the world. They don’t usually cause serious illness.”
Source: Medlineplus
So: Is there more than one coronavirus? Are they comm ..read more
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5y ago
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5y ago
The logger, the man in front of us and who represents the conflicting character of the forest loss drama in Manu, is younger than Alexis, our videographer friend. And also younger than me.
It was the first day of filming an ambitious project in which we immersed ourselves for eleven days in the jungles and villages of southern Peru, to produce no less than nine documentary and promotional short films of the destination.
The rain that had fallen that day during the whole trip, from Cusco to Villa Salvación, had not deterred Fortunato from fulfilling his promise to give us a little of his ti ..read more
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5y ago
Don’t think that we’re going to suggest a crusade against plastic as your travel plan to Peru. That would be an impossible mission. But we will propose two scenarios or actions that can be easily accomplished, while enjoying the best itinerary designed by your travel specialist at RESPONS.
Cover photo source: robgreenfield.tv
1. Being a plastic reporter:
In these times of hyperconnectivity, real-time news and powerful social networks, we take advantage of all these and ask you to graphically, and with some extra data (location, date, any other important observation), share all those situa ..read more
Responsible | Peru Travel Blog
5y ago
My name is Alejandro Teus, I’m the co-founder of Responsible Travel Peru and in this article I’m going to mention the things that I consider essential for your trip to be a success.
But first I’d like to make clear that we found two types of travelers: there are the tourists (no offense) … and the travelers that are seriously committed, those that feed on local experiences and real people, in this article I will focus on the last ones.
Positive stress is talked about in psychology in relation to important events, such as a raise, a wedding or a vacation, so I will talk about the latter ..read more