With the world travelling like there’s no tomorrow, with purse strings loosened like never before, and travel destinations beckoning us with a glint, India is travelling and how. It’s offbeat time! Today, be it the rustics, the uncharted treks, river courses, glaciers, mountain passes, the subcontinent’s nooks and crannies are suddenly witnessing footfalls that apart from the unbounded joy it provides to the vagabond, has another major perspective to it, one that conveniently has not been given a thought by the majority of the crowd – the bashing Nature takes. Did you know that an exotic journey to a place 10,000 kilometres away consumes about 700 litres of fuel per person? If it is us disturbing Her, isn’t it us that should clean up the damage we leave behind, or at the least minimize the negative impact to the ecosystems we visit, the flora and fauna we disturb by our invading presence? What if being eco-conscious didn’t require much to pack into our travel plans? Here’s how you could go a long way doing your part: Continue reading
Travel.. Responsibly!
11 Tuesday Jun 2013