Original Routes

For thousand of years the Moken sea gypsies have been a semi-nomadic people moving along the coastline of the Andaman Sea between Thailand and Myanmar. Their knowledge of the ocean, plant and spirit world is fascinating and is what helped them survive the 2004 tsunami. I am super excited to be partnering with them and to support their community-based tourism project in Thailand. (With Danielle Weiss)

These are some of the Hilltribe villages I’ll be working with in Northern Thailand. I believe in supporting community-based tourism because it’s a meaningful way to connect with local people, experience their daily life, and to ensure economic benefit goes directly to support them, their families and their communities. (With Danielle Weiss)

One of the best parts of having my own travel company is researching new trips! Right now I’m spending two months exploring northern Thailand with its ancient temples, spectacular waterfalls, colourful markets and night bazaars, hill tribe villages, elephant sanctuaries, festivals, cooking schools and so much more!

This year I met two inspiring women - Lynne Twist, Founder of Pachamama Alliance and Atossa Soltani, Founder of Amazon Watch - and members of their incredibly dedicated teams. As fires ravage the Amazon, I have deep gratitude for their decades of work to protect the Amazon and to advance the rights the of the Indigenous people who live there. Please learn more about these organizations and support their work. https://amazonwatch.org/take-action || https://www.pachamama.org/. @ Danielle Weiss

Through working with Andean and Amazonian communities, I’ve witnessed how their reverence for nature shapes the way they treat the land and water that surrounds them. To them mountains are sacred, plants are medicine, water is life. We have so much to learn and they have so much to teach.