It has been a long time since our last post, as it is not easy running a business and keeping up with everything while travelling, especially with the sometimes precarious Internet connections and most of our time spent on the road.

We are now at the end of our this long journey which lasted over 6 months - and as it always happens when you are doing something you like – I can not believe it is already March and that I am on my way back to Europe.

We have been travelling quite a few miles through Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras, visiting new destinations, discovering interesting lodging options, and getting in touch with local guides and small ecotourism operators to offer our customers a wider choice of options for planning their eco-holidays in Mexico and (soon) in other Central American countries.

I’d like to think I have a decent knowledge of Mexico, Guatemala and Belize, and feel confident I can give good advice to customers looking to travel in these countries. I am also pleased that we could spend a reasonable amount of time in Honduras, being the only ‘new territory’ in our trip, which turned out to be a very pleasant discovery.

Our initial travel plan also included a trip to Nicaragua and maybe Panama, but while on the road we decided to travel at a much slower pace. This allowed us to get to know the locals and experience the different regions’ culture, food and rhythms.

I still can not believe the number of people we have met in these past months who were visiting 4 or 5 countries in 3 weeks, spending most of their time on buses and planes. Not to mention some travel companies who recruit as ‘tour leaders’ people who have been to a country ‘at least twice’ (maybe for a week each time?)

I would recommend to anyone to take a longer time off work whenever possible, travel less miles and gain a richer experience from every destination.

On that note, I will be doing my best to promote the ‘Travel Slow’ philosophy with all my clients (read more about it on Planeta.com), making it one of our aims for 2008. I will also continue following the ‘Do not swim with the dolphins’ campaign as well as looking further into government regulations on tourist development in environmentally sensitive areas (a post will be coming out soon on that so please continue to follow or subscribe to our blog if this interests you)

All this, together with the development of the new gloCal websites dedicated to Guatemala, Belize and Honduras should keep us busy for a while…

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