Travelling green (that is, eco friendly travelling) has different facets and may mean different things to different people. You can make your own travel experience eco friendly, however, by doing or using the following:
1. Green Transportation
Your green travel begins with how you decide to get to your destination. Carbon dioxide is one of the greenhouse gases that are causing undesirable climate change on the earth as a result of human activities. As a lot of carbon dioxide is released into the air by the burning of fuel through the normal transport methods we use, we would therefore need to reduce our level of fuel consumption to reduce the level of these gases in the atmosphere. You can play your own part too when you travel by using greener methods of transportation.
Some of the options you may have is to simply start walking more. If you are only going on a short break within your city or your destination is not that far, you may just walk down there. Alternatively you may use a bicycle or even row a boat (that is if your final destination is reachable by water), to get to where you are going. These are some of the best eco friendly ways of moving around, at least for short distances.
Another option is to use public transportation instead of driving your own automobile. This has the advantage of reducing the number of vehicles on the road, which in turn reduces energy consumption and carbon emissions.
2. Eco Tourism
Eco tourism allows you to understand the consequence of human activities on the environment and to better appreciate the need to preserve natural settings while exploring nature. Through eco friendly travel you will experience travel with the aim of contributing and participating in the local communities of your destination, helping to conserve and sustain their environment, learning/appreciating their culture and getting hands-on experience on being green. Eco tourism is not just nature tourism, it is responsible tourism that involves leaving/preserving the environmental settings/resources of your destination as they are, for others to use too. To get a true eco tourism experience you will need to pick the right travel company and ask plenty of question to ensure you get a true eco tourism excursion. You may want to delve deeper into eco tourism as another form of green travel.
Some of the world’s greatest eco destinations include:
- Loango National Park, Gabon - A mostly unspoiled area of Africa, and home to free roaming large mammals like elephants, gorillas, hippopotamus and forest buffalo.
- Costa Rica - Costa Rica is one of the world’s most sought-after eco-travel destinations, with hundreds of companies that specialize in providing sustainable services.
- Madre De Dios, Peru - Rainforest conservation groups promote ecotourism to the area in the hope of creating an economy that depends upon the rainforest remaining healthy and intact.
- The Galapagos Islands - Visitors to the Galapagos are accompanied at all times by an accredited park ranger to ensure that you enjoy the natural beauty of the islands and the threatened wildlife that inhabits these without causing damage to their environment.
- Kenya - Kenya is not only home to some of the world’s most sought after safari destinations, it is also full of virgin rainforests, mountains, lakes and pristine white sand beaches.
3. Eco Retreats
Where you choose to stay while travelling can be green too. In an effort to encourage others to be eco friendly, you may want to frequent eco retreats; these are lodging establishments employing eco friendly practices. There are plenty of green/eco retreats you may choose to stay at, yet, there are varying degrees of being green amongst them, however. Some of what you should expect to see or get from eco retreat facilities are organic foods, use of renewable electricity like solar power, chemical-free pools, innovative eco flooring and furniture, green waste disposal like composting etc. Some of them may even provide you with bicycles to move around or low-energy car pools saving on energy and lowering carbon emissions.
All of these are possible ways you can do not have to spend more on your travels to use them.
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