Drinking fromlife
Sara's travels
Sara and her slow trips, Aware and outside the tourist routes. In love with India, takes a pause for reflection in Morocco, choice that leads her to open a travel agency to discover this beautiful country. Drinking fromlife It is the blog where he tells us about his adventures, experiences and his life that drinks like a precious nectar.
Welcome to Easy Travel hosting! You could tell us about your slow way of traveling and how to choose your routes?
Ciao, Thanks to you for the invitation and congratulations for your green mission. 🙂
I travel since I was a child, I started around Italy with my family (My parents were very young and they took me everywhere), To continue with the scouts of my city. We have received a real education for the environment, We used eco -sustainable products (We are talking about 30 years ago about), we moved above all on foot or, for long distances, by public transport. We had the essentials in the backpack and always cleaned the places where we passed, before and after.
Then I started traveling abroad, in Europa, But despite so much enthusiasm and some nice photos, I did not remain so much on the way back. I wanted to travel intensely, return to change, with new eyes, A more open mind. So I started organizing myself to be able to do it.
I worked for a while, I put the money aside and I leave for long months in India. Also with one month/two intervals in Austria, Germania, grasping the opportunities that presented themselves on the fly. This slow mode allowed me to come into contact with aspects that, passing through a place fleetingly, I would have ignored. To weave lasting relationships. Always return home a little changed. On the one hand enriched, on the other lighter than many useless superstructures I had.
Increasingly aware of the wire of universal humanity that connects several peoples. Travel especially in the countries towards which I feel a strong call. Usually I am attracted to places where colors and differences stand out, I feel a spirituality that permeates everything and everything, for better or for worse, It appears as it is, without filters.
It can be strong, At times it destabilizes, But I prefer it to patinated realities.
You have a job that has to do with travel, started in an perhaps unexpected and certainly exciting way. You could talk about it?
I carry out various activities, connected to them. Thanks to my background, I have been in the world of travel for a long time. Furthermore, In the 2013, I have passed to a professional blog and since I have been collaborating with different realities, as tourism bodies, structures, associations, brand. Always in the field of aware travel that I love to spread.
In recent years I have received several proposals regarding the organization of travel, Especially in Morocco, But the pandemic has slowed everything off. Then, For a series of coincidences, unexpected and particular, I met Mohamed who invited me to collaborate in his project Sahara View Tours.
We immediately shared the same vision and philosophy of life and it was spontaneous to connect our respective projects. And propose experiences in his land, with his knowledge of the territory and my experience, multifaceted, from traveler.
During the pandemic I trained as a certified travel designer, An extra piece. We want to make people know the heart of a land that we deeply love. To make you live, To those who choose us, An immersive experience and return home with a luggage full of wonder and knowledge, loving the differences.
India is a country you have visited in depth over time. What are the destinations you preferred and why?
India is a great love, that I have explored for years. A life is not enough to meet her, because it is immense and with such deep shades. Furthermore, it evolves quickly.
I loved Dharamsala very much of the north, in Himachal Pradesh. A McLeod Ganji, in particular, He lives a large Tibetan community in exile, which brings together around the Dalai Lama. I studied yoga in Rishikesh and is really enchanting, But it is also becoming a very commercial place. It's not their fault.
There the waters of the gange are crystal clear, There is an international community, Precisely because of the Yoga. I was very well in Rajasthan, a pushkar, I consider an Indian house. Thanks to a small, and unexpected, community of Italian travelers I inserted myself very well (It had also happened to me in Goa, with other Italians). These are people who were among the first Italians, at the time, to arrive in India and have returned to us over the years, also keeping the initial friendships.
Find myself with such welcoming people, without fine seconds, who were driving me in the Indian fabric, It was fantastic. I remember when we had lunch, All on the ground, At their friend's house, historical, Brahmin. Together with his wife he prepared us traditional food in the area. Or when we went to Aloo Baba, A holy man who eats only potatoes.
But I also loved bombay, For what little I was able to see, Light and dark together. The secret goa, Far from beach parties, Tiruvannamalai, Important spiritual center in Tamil Nadu. Hampi with its rolling stones, In Karnataka. The green Kerala where I scored in a motor among the tea plantations, coasting villagetti, images of the Archangel Michele, Beautiful flowers. A Jaisalmer, In the Thar desert, Incredible things happened. I don't know how to choose. Varanasi, Instead, For me and my travel companions, it was truly tough, But I would like to return to see her again with new eyes.
Tell us instead about your native land, what you love, What is close to you and what you miss when you are traveling?
Of my Puglia, in particular in Salento, I love his being root, the crystal clear sea, welcome, Ancient traditions that blend in modern times, art, the desserts and unsserted, with skill, along the territory, genuine food.
But I miss the wild green. Sometimes I felt suffocated and I don't notice in a slice of mentality. Furthermore, If you don't have a job with a fixed salary, and which is part of a status, Many can't frame you. And they label you as a person who does not work, that the country, But I think it is a more than Apulian Italian question.
Instead, I chased my permanent place for years and I have never been able to get it, So I had to engineer. 🙂
What hurt me served as a push to move, do different things, also approach the world of meditation (that practical and share now from 2007) To travel not only outside, but above all inside and transform myself.
My motto is: Be the change you want to see in the world, I don't know if I always can, But I do me every day.
When I'm traveling I miss the comforts of the house, Dear people, But it is a small price to pay. I miss the coffee in the area (The Salentines will understand me, We are fixed) but sometimes I carry it behind and share with who he is with me, To encourage conviviality.
However, I need to compare myself with large natural spaces and different cultures, I am happy with the experiences I had.
As you will know, Easy Travel Hosting uses renewable and eco-sustainable energy to power your servers. A tree is also planted for each new hosting, actively helping the reforestation and absorption of CO2. What do you think of this project and in general, Do you think it is important to search for a more sustainable lifestyle?
For this I respect you very much and I hope that more and more realities move, seriously, in this sense. The gesture of planting a tree is also very powerful and concrete.
For me it is very important, luckily I have already been sensitized, already as a child, in my context and in the Scout Group I attended. Furthermore, practicing meditation, I have naturally become vegetarian. I have eliminated cow's milk for years and I try to mainly use local and sustainable products.
Ride with the bottle, I drink the tap water or recharge the glass bottles in the appropriate water houses. I use the cup and washable absorbents, I have the canvas envelopes in the bag. I do not spend in clothes that then last a season.
It is simply, to take some steps back, Our grandparents ate very little meat and lived more in tune with nature, they didn't waste anything. I'm talking about me firsthand just to give some ideas, and because I share only from direct experience, But everyone can build his own way, one's sustainable lifestyle and always evolving towards the common good.
It takes patience and determination, as for everything in life. Thank you for your mission and opening. Thank you with all my heart.
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