Care your travel

Every 30th of May, Peru celebrates a very special day honouring one of its most nutritious and varied foods: The potato! I'll start with the following fact: Did you know Peru has 3,000 potato varieties between the 5,000 types that exist in the world? This post is made to bring awareness about this delicacy, a gift from the pachamama , as the incas would say. Stay here to learn about its health benefits as well as some big heroes. YAS! There are different shapes, colors, flavors... Some people say that the darker they are on the inside the healthier they are, but the truth is that each color has its own nutrients and specific characteristics. Funny story!: There was one day when my mom was cooking and she suddenly called me and told me to go to back to the farmers market because she got "bad" potatoes from the vendor, so she showed me and they had the purple color on the inside.. I was not fully convinced that they were actually bad but anyways I went so she can be more su...

Have you ever felt like, after taking a vacation trip, you return home tired and actually need some time more off to rest before going back to work? Maybe you've had a tight journey... Which, seems like a paradox as going on a trip really should be something, besides of enjoyable, relaxing so you can go back to your daily tasks with a fresh mind and attitude. But why sometimes it's just not like this and gives us the opposite effect? va . ca . tion 1. an extended period of leisure and recreation , especially one spent away from home or in traveling.  We live in an instagrammed world that the true meaning of vacation is sometimes forgotten. As I was reading earlier  once we notice that we're visiting certain place, we start looking at what can we do, see and visit there, but what causes the most curiosity and attraction to us are those wonderful world-famous sites that in just a matter of time were spreaded all over the internet and both travelers and influencers started to...

2020 was classified as the Rural Tourism and Development Year by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). This pandemic came unexpectedly and locked us down, making us to crave more than ever to go out and see the nature, breath the air... Did you already see that? It seems like a coincidence as being 24/7 in the house is kind of increasing the worth we give to our main home: the Earth. This is Cristina Suaña, the pioneer entrepreneur who started a rural tourism project in Puno, Perú, that brought a lot of benefits to the islands' traditional communities. So, as our activities have been limited or postponed and we changed physical travel for a virtual mode temporarily, a lot of people is seeking for nature-based and rural destinations,  like in Europe . The reason why this kind of trip will become highly bookeable soon is because those places are located far from the cities, which means, far from crowds that are easily generated in supermarkets, bus stations or public buildings. Be...

Nowadays, with this coronavirus taking over the world, forcing all of us to rethink about our health measures, slow down and remain in our homes until the curve could flatten it's amazing how those popular and crowded tourism destinations can finally have a breath and rest from those everyday visits, one after another. However, it's important to not to let anxiety take over our emotions once we're able to travel. We're writing this post because of the recent  Peruvian Tourism Decree n° 1507  (official link in spanish) issued between yesterday and today, about the measures taken for reactivating tourism in Peru from July, both for national as well as internacional tourists. As the President says, this executive order was based on the 2018 National Tourist Profile,made by Prom Perú, whose most visited destinations were both urban cities (monuments, historic buildings) and natural reserves, plus the ones who travel more were the kids along with the teachers (making educati...

It's important to always stay in touch informed about this current context and the effects that it will have on each one's work industries, so as we were looking at news about how different countries are setting plans to reopen and allow tourism activitities to be progresively developed again, we're seeing a lot about the following measures that would be prioritized, such as: Extra sanitizing procedures at hotels, restaurants and air/road transportation. Social distancing Making travel corridors between countries Developing tech tools like the  QR codes of chinese citizens   This of course says that the future traveler's behavior is going to change a lot, however it's not about becoming obssesed about cleaning or health but to be more mindful instead,   which means being more conscious about every single thing we touch and making sure not to be touching our face or other people's hands that often.  This also leads us to rethink the time that we spend outdoors. W...

When you travel without searching for the highest-class hotels or luxury tours but to connect more with local cultures, this could really help little communities overcome the severe consequences of the covid-19 crisis. Uros Floating Islands The first week of february I traveled to Puno, at the south of Perú with my dance group in order to perform our beloved caporales, a typical dance from the Altiplano, to celebrate the Festivity of the Candelaria Virgin. Besides all the excitement for this huge event it was also the first time I was going to the Andes part of my country since 2016 when I went to Arequipa for a Tourism Congress. So, after being acclimatized during the first day we took the second day as a day-off in order to hang around touristically. We went to Sillustani, an archeological site known for being the largest pre-inca cemetery, highlighting its big chullpas   where the bodies were buried inside of them along with their belongings such as ceramics, foods or o...