Posts tagged with: "slow travel"

How to Find Your Zen With Yoga and Volunteering
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Are you a passionate yogi looking to explore the world while sharing your love for yoga? Volunteering with Workaway can be a fulfilling way to combine your passion for wellness with your wanderlust, and make your adventures extra enriching for both yourself and local communities!

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20 Amazing bucket list travel experiences to have around the world
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We only live once, so lets choose to do the most meaningful things in the most phenomenal places in the world! We’ve highlighted a few items on our loooong bucket list of the most wonderful experiences around the world. Are any of these on your list too?

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What Is Coliving? Pros and Cons of This Travel Accommodation
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Coliving is a relatively new accommodation style that appeals to long-term travellers and digital nomads. They’re a great alternative to hostels and can be a good way to meet like-minded people, but they aren’t for everyone! This guide will break down the coliving meaning, the pros and cons, and how to find a coliving community that suits your travel style.

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10 good reasons to use Workaway to travel longer for less
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We all know somebody who's constantly travelling and looking like they're having the best time of their lives... you just can't help but wonder, how in the world do they do it? Over to workawayer Mandie, who shares all about how Workaway has enabled her to extend her travels, and the added benefits of being a workawayer!

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Travelling in Tune: Bonding on the Road through Music
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This catchy tune, created by Workawayers Delanie and Tori has been playing on repeat in our minds ever since we first stumbled upon their captivating video! What began as a 30-day challenge blossomed into a fun way for hosts and Workawayers to bond and to stay connected with friends and family back home. Read more for their unique music journey story!

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Benefits of Slow Travel & How to Embrace It
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Travel should not be about counting countries, it should be about connection, culture and curiosity. Rather than rushing through multiple destinations to tick them off a list, we can savour every moment, experience a place's daily rhythm and gain a profound understanding of its history and traditions. Are you ready to embrace quality over quantity with our guide on slow travel?

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Eco-travel: 5 ways you can be a better traveller
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Are you a conscious traveller who’s passionate about looking after Mother Earth, just as much as you love to discover new destinations? With the help of long-time traveller and workawayer Neri, we’ve compiled 5 easy ways we can travel more sustainably...

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6 Ways Sustainable Travel Can Help With The Planet’s Health and Yours
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Instead of counting countries, absorb each city fully. Instead of hostel hopping, dive deep into conversations with locals. Travel in your own country, before escaping to the next. You’ll soon realise, not only is travelling sustainably better for the planet’s health – it’s better for your health too. Here’s how…

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Why it’s never too late for a grown up gap year
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Life is too precious to be wishing it away for retirement when we’ll have the “time” to travel. Now more than ever, we have the time to plan, time to find your perfect host and to research our dream destinations... so why not use this time to plan your grown up gap year?

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Travel photography – “We looked for the concrete, we found the unreal” (Laguna Pirquinco, Chile)
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Here are some of the varied and interesting shots taken by workawayers and hosts. Explore some of the best images and entered into the Workaway travel photos competition for your chance to win the €100 prize.

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Meet the couple who are travelling the world by bike with their dog
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We recently came across the story of workawayers Anna and Marcin, a Polish couple who are pretty much living the dream. They quit their jobs for a life of slow travel, cycled from their home country all the way to Greece – AND brought their dog along on their adventures! We just need to find out more about their awesome journey.

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Sustainable travel: 10 simple tips to become a responsible traveller
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There’s no doubt that travelling can be good for the mind, body, and soul. We don’t have to convince you of its many personal benefits, but is it as good for the environment? Not always. The good news is that there are many ways to practice sustainable travel. With intention and a little preparation, following even a few of these steps can go a long way in helping preserve the treasures we seek around the world.

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Stop counting countries: Travel slow and travel further
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Why do we travel? To meet people, to see amazing sights, to learn new languages, or purely just to get out there to see the world? Whatever the reason we travel, have you noticed how we have become obsessed with counting countries?! Uploading the most Instagrams and trying to conquer every continent? Why do we travel with so much urgency now?

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