Stay in a Kibbutz Eco-Community

Kibbutz Lotan is a desert eco-community with an inspiring dedication to environmental protection. Stay in a cozy room in Lotan’s signature mud-built dwellings and learn about permaculture, organic farming, and alternative architecture at the Kibbutz Lotan Center for Creative Ecology.

Meet Israel’s Lost & Endangered Desert Animals

Hai-Bar Yotvata Nature Reserve is a ground-breaking wildlife restoration project, working to reintroduce lost and endangered animals back to the Israeli landscape. Tour the park in your own car and you will be rewarded with spectacular close-up views of oryxes, ostriches, wild donkeys, gazelles, and more. It’s also a camping area.

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Visit the Only Organic Aloe Vera Farm in the Middle East

With all that desert sun, your skin might be feeling a little dry. Head to Bayit HaAloe, the only organic aloe vera plantation in the Middle East. With prior coordination, you can meet the owners, learn more about the plantation and see the aloe vera growing. Don’t forget to stock up on nourishing organic aloe vera skincare products while you’re there!

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Mount Fuji

One of the most popular travel destinations in Japan, Mount Fuji is the tallest mountain in the country and an amazing place to enjoy untouched nature. You can enjoy the Fuji Five Lake region north of the mountain or go on a climb during summer.

Yakushima

Yakushima is an island located south of the four major islands in Japan. It’s covered in old cedar trees—thousands of years old. The island was an inspiration for the Ghibli movie Princess Mononoke, in which the forest gods capture a young prince.

Okinawa Islands

Did you know that there’s a subtropical paradise in Japan? Okinawa Islands are wild and not fit for swimming, but you can go on boat tours and explore the wonderful marine life and the rest of the amazing nature.

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Tongariro Alpine Crossing

The Tongariro Alpine Crossing was made famous by Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings, and it’s the country’s oldest national park. The crossing is 12 miles long and it includes hot springs, lava flows, and water-filled craters.

Fiordland National Park

Animal lovers have to visit this national park that has bottlenose dolphins, fur seals, penguins, and keas. Fiordland National Park has 14 fiords, which are u-shaped glacier-carved valleys, flooded by the sea.

Fox and Franz Josef Glaciers

While these glaciers can only be reached by helicopter, due to the receding ice-levels, during the flights you’ll land on fresh snow and you can hike glaciers. How cool is that?

Waitomo Caves

Enjoy guided cave tours, underground cruises, glowworm sightseeing, and outdoor adventure activities like black-water rafting and abseiling while visiting the Waitomo Caves.

Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve

Formed from the remains of ancient volcanoes, the Poor Knights Islands are one of the top diving sites in the world. The islands are protected and off limits, but the offshore waters are a must-see for any adventure lover.

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Canopy Lodge

This ecolodge is a bird watchers paradise. Its minimalist design integrates the natural environment and features a well-stocked library, bird guides and day trips.

Gamboa Rainforest Resort

In this resort, you can drink in the feel of the rainforest while chilling by the pool and using the full-service spar. If you want to get a bit more involved, you can take guided tours of the forest, jungle boat cruises, and an aerial tram ride.

La Loma Jungle Lodge

This is probably the lodge that integrates you with nature the most. You sleep in open-air thatched-roof bungalows with forest canopies and sweeping wildlife views. You can also take guided nature tours, eat organic meals, and visit the on-site butterfly farm.

Cana Field Station

Located in the wildest and most remote region of Panama is the Cana Field Station, one of the best bird-watching sites in the world. It is a little rustic, with shared bathrooms and communal meals, but is the most integrative of bird watching destinations.

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Created in 1973, this park dedicates a part of its land to indigenous Amazonian communities, who choose to live in isolation from locals and visitors.

Manú National Park offers visitors a few different tours including custom tours for those who have a specific visit in mind. Fun activities offered in the tours are rafting, zip-lining, visiting the local Howler Monkeys territories, and encountering some of the forests other incredible fauna such as giant otters, brown-throated sloths, and maybe meet a puma!

The park includes a few lodges as a form of accommodation, which guarantees waking up every morning to spectacular views of mountains, lakes, and other jungle scenes. Around the lodges are a few lookouts where different animals can be viewed without the need to trek very far, and the staff will guide you through the area and share their vast knowledge of the ecological preservation done at the Biosphere Reserve.

The park is open all year round, but it’s recommended to visit from April to November during the dry season.

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What Is The Problem?

One of the most pressing problems in the travel industry is over-tourism. Hundreds of millions of tourists head out to paradise islands and other beautiful destinations overseas. This results in more plastic consumption, more litter, and a threat to natural environments. Moreover, flying is one of the most major releases of CO2 and so your flight abroad could be wreaking havoc on your carbon footprint.

Why Does It Matter?

As well as being harmful to the environment and the world we live in, over-tourism negatively impacts locals. When tourists fill up the roads and pollute the city or scare off natural wildlife, the locals suffer. This creates a hostile relationship between locals and tourists who find their quality of life takes a hit during the holiday season.

What Can I Do to Help?

If you are going on vacation abroad, the best thing you can do is be conscious of your environment. Do not litter, limit your plastic consumption and respect the environment around you. If you are snorkeling, do not touch the coral reefs as it harms them. Walk and get around by bike when possible and support local businesses and cultural projects. Be respectful and always keep your mind open to new ways you can be more eco-conscious when traveling abroad.

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But even more than that, this incredibly green city surrounded by water and parks is renowned as the most environmentally friendly capital city in the world. In fact, Copenhagen aims to become the world’s first carbon-neutral capital by 2025.

Copenhagen has many green oases and open spaces with fresh air, some of the cleanest water you’ll ever find, an excellent and efficient infrastructure and a strong culture of riding bicycles and eating organic food. Youthful, refined and green, it’s perhaps the dream city of anyone devoted to ecology and sustainable living.

Copenhagen is a gloriously attractive city too, with its unique architecture, maze of cobbled streets and ancient churches, palaces and government buildings. There’s that fabulous functional yet elegant Danish design that reflects everywhere you look, from metro stations to schools and even hairdresser shops.

When eating out in Copenhagen, there are plenty of options. The city’s food-scene is making international waves lately with the unique flavors created by Copenhagen’s many climate-friendly and organic restaurants and Michelin-starred restaurants, including Geranium – the world’s only all-organic restaurant with three Michelin stars and Noma, which is spearheading the recent reinvention of Nordic cuisine.

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Sustainable tourism refers to tourism that is done in a way that contributes in a positive way to the place that you’re visiting, in terms of its environment, society, and economy.

As we know, tourism done the wrong way can be highly detrimental. Mass tourism in places like the Caribbean often deteriorates the natural ecosystem of these places, forces residents away from their former homes, and congregates money received from tourism in the hands of a few wealthy individuals.

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Sustainable tourism is a way to create positive change and to use tourism as a force for the common good. People that follow the idea of sustainable tourism try to do a few things:

• Not disturb or harm the environment.
• Use sustainable, mass transit options when possible.
• Patronize small businesses and hotels instead of large companies.
• Support organizations and institutions that conserve cultural heritage and traditions.

While many associate “green tourism” with the idea of sustainable tourism, it’s also possible to visit places sustainably even if they’re in a big city. You can opt to move around using the metro instead of a rental car, and you can grab a coffee at a local roaster’s shop instead of heading to the franchise of a large corporation.

Tourism should be both enjoyable and sustainable, and we are better off if tourists, locals, and the land coexist in mutually beneficial harmony.

The post What is Sustainable Tourism? appeared first on Traveler Master.

Stay in a Kibbutz Eco-Community

Kibbutz Lotan is a desert eco-community with an inspiring dedication to environmental protection. Stay in a cozy room in Lotan’s signature mud-built dwellings and learn about permaculture, organic farming, and alternative architecture at the Kibbutz Lotan Center for Creative Ecology.

Meet Israel’s Lost & Endangered Desert Animals

Hai-Bar Yotvata Nature Reserve is a ground-breaking wildlife restoration project, working to reintroduce lost and endangered animals back to the Israeli landscape. Tour the park in your own car and you will be rewarded with spectacular close-up views of oryxes, ostriches, wild donkeys, gazelles, and more. It’s also a camping area.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Ira (@flossenschlag)

Visit the Only Organic Aloe Vera Farm in the Middle East

With all that desert sun, your skin might be feeling a little dry. Head to Bayit HaAloe, the only organic aloe vera plantation in the Middle East. With prior coordination, you can meet the owners, learn more about the plantation and see the aloe vera growing. Don’t forget to stock up on nourishing organic aloe vera skincare products while you’re there!

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Just Aloe | Desert Beauty (@justaloe)

The post The Best Ecotourism Activities in the Arava, Israel appeared first on Traveler Master.

Mount Fuji

One of the most popular travel destinations in Japan, Mount Fuji is the tallest mountain in the country and an amazing place to enjoy untouched nature. You can enjoy the Fuji Five Lake region north of the mountain or go on a climb during summer.

Yakushima

Yakushima is an island located south of the four major islands in Japan. It’s covered in old cedar trees—thousands of years old. The island was an inspiration for the Ghibli movie Princess Mononoke, in which the forest gods capture a young prince.

Okinawa Islands

Did you know that there’s a subtropical paradise in Japan? Okinawa Islands are wild and not fit for swimming, but you can go on boat tours and explore the wonderful marine life and the rest of the amazing nature.

The post 3 Best Ecotourism Destinations in Japan appeared first on Traveler Master.

Tongariro Alpine Crossing

The Tongariro Alpine Crossing was made famous by Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings, and it’s the country’s oldest national park. The crossing is 12 miles long and it includes hot springs, lava flows, and water-filled craters.

Fiordland National Park

Animal lovers have to visit this national park that has bottlenose dolphins, fur seals, penguins, and keas. Fiordland National Park has 14 fiords, which are u-shaped glacier-carved valleys, flooded by the sea.

Fox and Franz Josef Glaciers

While these glaciers can only be reached by helicopter, due to the receding ice-levels, during the flights you’ll land on fresh snow and you can hike glaciers. How cool is that?

Waitomo Caves

Enjoy guided cave tours, underground cruises, glowworm sightseeing, and outdoor adventure activities like black-water rafting and abseiling while visiting the Waitomo Caves.

Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve

Formed from the remains of ancient volcanoes, the Poor Knights Islands are one of the top diving sites in the world. The islands are protected and off limits, but the offshore waters are a must-see for any adventure lover.

The post Top 5 Ecotourism Experiences in New Zealand appeared first on Traveler Master.

Canopy Lodge

This ecolodge is a bird watchers paradise. Its minimalist design integrates the natural environment and features a well-stocked library, bird guides and day trips.

Gamboa Rainforest Resort

In this resort, you can drink in the feel of the rainforest while chilling by the pool and using the full-service spar. If you want to get a bit more involved, you can take guided tours of the forest, jungle boat cruises, and an aerial tram ride.

La Loma Jungle Lodge

This is probably the lodge that integrates you with nature the most. You sleep in open-air thatched-roof bungalows with forest canopies and sweeping wildlife views. You can also take guided nature tours, eat organic meals, and visit the on-site butterfly farm.

Cana Field Station

Located in the wildest and most remote region of Panama is the Cana Field Station, one of the best bird-watching sites in the world. It is a little rustic, with shared bathrooms and communal meals, but is the most integrative of bird watching destinations.

The post Best Eco Retreats in Panama appeared first on Traveler Master.

Created in 1973, this park dedicates a part of its land to indigenous Amazonian communities, who choose to live in isolation from locals and visitors.

Manú National Park offers visitors a few different tours including custom tours for those who have a specific visit in mind. Fun activities offered in the tours are rafting, zip-lining, visiting the local Howler Monkeys territories, and encountering some of the forests other incredible fauna such as giant otters, brown-throated sloths, and maybe meet a puma!

The park includes a few lodges as a form of accommodation, which guarantees waking up every morning to spectacular views of mountains, lakes, and other jungle scenes. Around the lodges are a few lookouts where different animals can be viewed without the need to trek very far, and the staff will guide you through the area and share their vast knowledge of the ecological preservation done at the Biosphere Reserve.

The park is open all year round, but it’s recommended to visit from April to November during the dry season.

The post Visit Peru’s Wondrous Manú National Park appeared first on Traveler Master.

What Is The Problem?

One of the most pressing problems in the travel industry is over-tourism. Hundreds of millions of tourists head out to paradise islands and other beautiful destinations overseas. This results in more plastic consumption, more litter, and a threat to natural environments. Moreover, flying is one of the most major releases of CO2 and so your flight abroad could be wreaking havoc on your carbon footprint.

Why Does It Matter?

As well as being harmful to the environment and the world we live in, over-tourism negatively impacts locals. When tourists fill up the roads and pollute the city or scare off natural wildlife, the locals suffer. This creates a hostile relationship between locals and tourists who find their quality of life takes a hit during the holiday season.

What Can I Do to Help?

If you are going on vacation abroad, the best thing you can do is be conscious of your environment. Do not litter, limit your plastic consumption and respect the environment around you. If you are snorkeling, do not touch the coral reefs as it harms them. Walk and get around by bike when possible and support local businesses and cultural projects. Be respectful and always keep your mind open to new ways you can be more eco-conscious when traveling abroad.

The post What Is Sustainable Travel and Why Does It Matter? appeared first on Traveler Master.

But even more than that, this incredibly green city surrounded by water and parks is renowned as the most environmentally friendly capital city in the world. In fact, Copenhagen aims to become the world’s first carbon-neutral capital by 2025.

Copenhagen has many green oases and open spaces with fresh air, some of the cleanest water you’ll ever find, an excellent and efficient infrastructure and a strong culture of riding bicycles and eating organic food. Youthful, refined and green, it’s perhaps the dream city of anyone devoted to ecology and sustainable living.

Copenhagen is a gloriously attractive city too, with its unique architecture, maze of cobbled streets and ancient churches, palaces and government buildings. There’s that fabulous functional yet elegant Danish design that reflects everywhere you look, from metro stations to schools and even hairdresser shops.

When eating out in Copenhagen, there are plenty of options. The city’s food-scene is making international waves lately with the unique flavors created by Copenhagen’s many climate-friendly and organic restaurants and Michelin-starred restaurants, including Geranium – the world’s only all-organic restaurant with three Michelin stars and Noma, which is spearheading the recent reinvention of Nordic cuisine.

The post Inside Copenhagen, The Eco Capital of the World appeared first on Traveler Master.

Sustainable tourism refers to tourism that is done in a way that contributes in a positive way to the place that you’re visiting, in terms of its environment, society, and economy.

As we know, tourism done the wrong way can be highly detrimental. Mass tourism in places like the Caribbean often deteriorates the natural ecosystem of these places, forces residents away from their former homes, and congregates money received from tourism in the hands of a few wealthy individuals.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BraVs5aHuxS/

Sustainable tourism is a way to create positive change and to use tourism as a force for the common good. People that follow the idea of sustainable tourism try to do a few things:

• Not disturb or harm the environment.
• Use sustainable, mass transit options when possible.
• Patronize small businesses and hotels instead of large companies.
• Support organizations and institutions that conserve cultural heritage and traditions.

While many associate “green tourism” with the idea of sustainable tourism, it’s also possible to visit places sustainably even if they’re in a big city. You can opt to move around using the metro instead of a rental car, and you can grab a coffee at a local roaster’s shop instead of heading to the franchise of a large corporation.

Tourism should be both enjoyable and sustainable, and we are better off if tourists, locals, and the land coexist in mutually beneficial harmony.

The post What is Sustainable Tourism? appeared first on Traveler Master.