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Responsible Travel - Articles & Travel Stories

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Explore 11 Responsible Travel travel stories from Adventure Life, featuring expert insights, destination highlights, and firsthand experiences from ancient and culturally rich sites. Whether you’re planning your next adventure in 2026 or 2027, these stories offer inspiration for exploring ruins, archaeological wonders, and hidden historical gems across the globe. Learn from the journeys of fellow travelers and discover meaningful ways to connect with the past through thoughtful travel. Let these Responsible Travel stories guide your path into history.
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Snorkel the reef

Belize Travel: Sunscreen and Coral Reef Bleaching

Practice responsible travel when you visit Belize and when snorkeling by choosing reef-safe sunscreen. Harmful ingredients can damage the coral reef while snorkeling in Belize. During your Belize snorkeling tour, opt for eco-friendly sunscreen use in Belize to protect marine life and keep the reef vibrant for future generations.
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Community Grants

Adventure Life has an annual, ongoing grant program that provides funding for small, grassroots projects in the countries we visit, such as Chile. Our local partners nominate organizations and projects.
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Dende Da Serra Waldorf School Library Project

Adventure Life Grant Program provides funding to build the Dende Da Serra Waldorf School Library
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Tecnico Chixot Students and Staff outside the schooll

Guatemala Técnico Chixot School Grant

Adventure Life provided a grant Long Way Home for completion of the first four primary school bathrooms. These bathrooms will use an “outlaw” septic system (similar to that used by Earthship Biotecture) that processes solid waste and black water through a filtration system and into black water cell sewn with cleansing plants. These four …
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Huaorani hospitality

Porter Treatment

International Mountain Explorers Connection Porter Partnership Program Porters are provided proper clothing and equipment. Porters need adequate footwear, socks, waterproof jackets and pants, gloves, hats, sunglasses, etc. that are appropriate for their destination. Clothing and gear for loan is available at the International Mountain Explorers …
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A Quechua woman washes dishes in her courtyard along the Inca Trail

Travel & Conservation

Everyone acknowledges the two sides of conservation - ecological and cultural - but little attention is paid to the latter. Adventure Life believes it is critical that local people be made active partners in developing a local tourism industry. Money generated by tourism should stay in the community. This means hiring local guides, staying in …
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Start of Project

Education and School Improvement in Chontachaca

This April of 2014 begins a new conservationist initiative at the Peruvian Cloud Forest (ACP Bosque Nublado). Thanks to the local association PERU VERDE, Adventure Life and a motivated Mother’s Club of Chontachaca whose combined efforts, hard work and great enthusiasm shall take place in order to set off the improvement of this Community’s …
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The iconic feet of the Blue-Footed Booby

Protecting a Living Museum

A brief history of human impact on the Galapagos Islands The Galapagos first appeared on maps around 1570 with various explorers making stops but never settling on the islands. Whalers and maritime fur traders started moving in during the 18th century. At this time, tortoises were hunted as a source of meat since they could be kept alive …
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Antarctica Travel Video: Leave the Pebbles for the Penguins

A little reminder in the principles of Leave No Trace is always a good idea. This short video from my last Antarctica trip provides just that. Although a tiny pebble might seem insignificant, they are incredibly coveted by Antarctica penguins -- penguins make their nests from small pebbles, that are not always easy to come by in the snowy, stark …
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BRUNO DOING HIS JOB

Thoughts on Green Travel

Sustainable, Responsible, Green, Eco Tourism -- I know it can be tough to get beyond these labels and into the meaning behind such abstracts. But here's a little help... Traveler, Sarah Shelton, provides some direction and does a great job highlighting the sort of questions you should ask your travel company if you are looking at going green on …
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Do Carbon Offsets Do More Damage Than Good?

For the past few years, I have heard lots of news about carbon offsets and we have had lots of discussion within the office about carbon offsetting. I've skeptical of the usefulness and so we have never offered carbon offsets to our clients. To me, it seemed as if the threats facing the pristine forests of the Amazon, the fragile wildlife of the …
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