Slow Travel (or unhurried travel) is a “new way” of traveling. A new way to interact and get to know places and cultures. An ideology that gains more and more fans.
To give you a quick view, the Slow Travel is the antithesis of the calls “Insta Travels” – Trips made “almost by obligation”, to poke points from the “Bucket List”, which is often not even your “Bucket List”, list but yes the “Society”.
Foto em Queenstown – Nova Zelandia
What are the benefits of Slow Travel?
- Trips to “slow down” and get to know deeper one place;
- Practicing a more sustainable tourism
- Slow Travel trips are usually cheaper
- You will discover the place in a unique and different way
- A more relaxed trip without the stress of the great touristic spots
- in>Slow Travel Trips privilege social contact over new technologies.
After all, believe it or not, there are very good people who travel “to Instagram. That is, to get “that” perfect photo, “at that” perfect sunset, “at that” perfect destination. That is, “in that all perfection” that, most of the time, only Instagram “can give”. They forget to experience destiny. To absorb it. Or even, really live a different reality from your daily life.
According to an article from World Nomadsslow traveltrips appeal to when we are in our destiny, let us be open-minded, receptive to everything that goes on around us:the street musician, the cat on the sidewalk, the lady with her shopping bag, etc.
A more enriching experience
Visit to Tiwi Islands - Australia
Thus, spending 4 hours in line to take a photo in the Heaven's Door in Bali, is not at all a concept of Slow Travel. The Slow Travel turns out to be more ethical and eco-friendly because it calls for immersion (and not just visiting) of the individual in the culture of the place they visit.
However, we do not mean, literally, to “travel slower”, no longer visiting places that really interest you 😉
When you are not just “another tourist” you already do your part. “Decelerating” our journey gives us time to reconnect with what really matters. In fact, this is one of the reasons why many people travel. To escape the rules and pressures of everyday life.
The in>Slow Travel Trips allow, above all, better understand of the culture we visit – their day to day, their customs, the challenges they face – and ideally, adjust our own actions, so that the World is increasingly a fairer place.
It also allows us to have a more sustainable and therefore, more economical. Using public transport and running away from the Must-sees . Eating and buying locally, is to ensure that your experience will be much more enriching (for both parties) and surprises will certainly happen.
A good example of how to practice Slow Travel
Lake Argyle - Australia
Just to exemplify, imagine you're in Rome. You're not catholic. In your country of origin you have never even entered a church and even almost repudiate all existing religions.
Are you really going to waste a whole day visiting the Vatican, just because “it is mandatory to go to the Vatican when going to Rome”?
Para muitos vai ser um choque esta tua afirmação: “eu fui a Roma mas nem sequer vi a Praça de S.Pedro”.
But the truth is that the trip is yours and you should take it at your own pace and not at the pace of the others.
The essence of traveling and knowing new worlds is precisely to do and experience what you cannot/can not do in your daily life, but what you like!
As a farewell I leave here a phrase, which once appeared to me in my Feed and whose author I do not know, for your reflection:
“The kind of freedom I need is not to do what I want, but not to do what I do not want”.
Do you want to know how you can travel more economically and more sustainably?
Then read our article How to save while on travel
