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Homestay in Coorg India

How Green is Your Hotel?

A big part of being a responsible tourist is choosing your hotel carefully. In a developing country such as India, and especially in areas where tourism is an important source of income, the choices you make when travelling have a huge impact locally. When booking a hotel, check if your desired hotel has an environmental/responsible [...]

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Pigs Having Lunch on Indian Street

4 Simple Green Travel Tips for India

Remember how Indian trains used to serve chai (tea) in clay cups? After drinking the tea, passengers used to simply throw the cup out of the train window, which was fine because the cup was biodegradable. Today train chai is served in plastic cups – but the cups are still thrown out of the train [...]

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Pangong Tso in Ladakh India

Responsible Travel in India

This post contains an affiliate link (at the end of the post). I’ve been thinking a lot about responsible travel recently. I’ve been researching for my next travel book about Ladakh and have been reading Ancient Futures by Helena Norberg Hodge*. This deeply thought-provoking book tells the story of how a happy, self-sufficient, environmentally sustainable, [...]

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