Tick tock boom. 4 years ago, the world came to a standstill. The global pandemic hit the stop button on our world's mad rush. We had to reinvent a way of enjoying our home, our surroundings and the people around us. How do you escape within a kilometer? How do you escape home? How to avoid having too much impact? How can we travel differently? Closer, more present, less connected. And since then, nomadism has regained importance.

For two years now, EVAZION has been creating the conditions to promote slow tourism and micro-adventures: a change of scenery just a few dozen or a few hundred kilometers from home. By finding and making accessible private spots in the heart of nature, the challenge has been met, and the feedback has been incredible. Our daily challenge is to reconcile the desire and need for escape without creating a negative impact on the environment. What's more, we strive every day to reverse the vision that dictates that we should not create a negative impact, and instead ask ourselves how we can create a positive one.

As we all know, the experience of being a nomad in the wilderness can transform and humble us. Even over just a few days, it puts us back in our place in the earth's ecosystem, enabling us to see, listen and respect better. By clearing our clutter, we're forced to see our surroundings more clearly, which in turn encourages us to show greater respect for our environment.

For our part, we hold fast to this image of the guardian traveler, the one who no longer consumes his journey but lives it. With adventure, presence and respect. As if each and every one of us had this mission to take care of wherever we go, without this being a constraint. Just that it's normal. That's why we feel the urgent need to democratize this type of travel. Slow travel, whatever you want to call it, is the kind of travel that lets you take a break. To get away from it all. How can we make it as attractive as visiting a country on the other side of the world? How can we ensure that exploring every country is no longer a life goal, but that instead we take care of the time and space that contains us?

We need to find a way to satisfy our thirst for exploration and escape, while contributing to a virtuous circle in which the whole ecosystem can benefit. We all have a responsibility here. Individually, collectively and morally. As nomadic travelers, we are witness to the impact we have on the places we visit when there are too many of us. We need to reclaim our role and move from spectator to actor, from consumer to guardian. We need to protect the most beautiful places in our regions so that our children can enjoy them too.