Staying Calm When Other Travellers Aren’t

Whether you’re traveling short-term or long-term, chances are you’ll eventually encounter some rude or entitled travellers. During our South America trip, we noticed it especially in more luxury destinations like the Galápagos and Patagonia, where some people seemed to behave… a little differently.

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Are All Conservation Programs Ethical?

During my master’s program, I came into contact with several conservation projects in Malaysia. My whole life, I’ve been searching for purpose, and I truly thought conservation was where I’d make a difference. I wanted to change the world.

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Managing Mental Health While Long-Term Traveling

I wanted to write this because it’s not a topic that’s brought up often by travelers or bloggers. Mental health, and especially the less ‘Instagrammable’ sides of it, often gets left out of the narrative. This is for anyone who might feel isolated or misunderstood while traveling, especially if you’re navigating the road with a mental health condition like bipolar disorder. When people picture long-term travel, they think of adventure, meeting new people, and constant happiness. What they don’t picture is quietly managing mood stabilisers in a guesthouse in rural Peru while trying to figure out if the high-altitude dizziness is physical… or mental.

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When Travelling Wears You Out: Understanding and Overcoming Travel Fatigue

I knew travel fatigue had hit me when we were in Trujillo. The heat was relentless, I was exhausted, and everything just felt like too much. We had already spent countless hours on buses, moving from place to place, and another nine-hour journey was looming over me. Even though we try to slow things down, staying in places for an extra day or two to catch our breath, the constant need to plan never really stops.

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