Lately I was thinking about our YTC project and there was a sentence coming to my mind. something like a slogan. “Travel is a human right”.

That one slogan relates to the quote/slogan of “Water is a human right” from viva con Agua. nevermind… 

There is this concept behind it, we are trying to develop as a club. It’s all about learning how to travel on your own. 
The final vision is to build a school and raise a whole generation of people that can travel cheap, sustainable, respectful, and mindful through the world.

Travelling shouldn’t be seen as luxury or something you must spend a lot of time for working. We’re living in a time where working and traveling is more combinable than ever before. 
Travelling mindful means learning about this world and see it non-filtered as we are so used to see this world through a social media or TV lense.

This is where it connects to the basic, minimalistic lifestyle. Less is more!

If your travel budget is similar to a budget to the country’s average prices and wages, and I don’t mean the tourism industry pricing, you start to walk through the country more authentical. You start to truly connect with the country’s reality. 

Some people would say: “well, I just want to relax in my holiday!”
And here comes the difference. “Travelling” and “Holidays” are two different things, even though they can be easily combined. We want the people learn how to travel and give this world a new and more conscious meaning to it. 

So, what is the true meaning of “travelling” to us?

Travelling is knowledge. It’s like a book. You can read that book like if you read it in school when you had to, not really going into the content of the knowledge, just preparing yourself for that next exam and forgetting everything about it the day after. This is pretty much the same thing with going into an all-inclusive tour for two weeks just to recharge the batteries so you can come back to your job afterwards and do the work that you have never questioned.

…Or, you grab a book and suck in all that information and actually change your perspective on things, or maybe change yourself. Maybe you go with that book through such an intense and deep emotion you’ve never experienced before. It’s the same with travelling.

And there is only one way to do it unfiltered. 
The perfect way to start is to go and travel on your own. Alone. diving into the country’s way of life. 
Hitchhiking with truckdrivers in Colombia or being taken on a ride on a Shaikh’s Lamborghini through the Roads of the Emirates passing the Pakistani ghettos outside of Dubai.
Walking to the summit of a high mountain without taking an overpriced tour-offer. Working as a volunteer on a sustainable project abroad.

And these are only a few examples…

But why should one start to travel alone?

Well, the answer lays in all the corny phrases we are so used to quote, such as: “you cannot love someone, before you don’t love yourself”.

You are not supposed to go travel with someone if you are depending on that person because you are not self-sufficient enough. You first have to face your problems and your minds questions before you put this weight on someone else’s shoulder.

And this is where travelling also shows up as a therapeutical process and self-growth. 

And I actually see that “travelling together” is as important as “traveling alone”. There are people in this world being busy with their self-growth and ego for their whole life. 

Travelling is also about learning together and giving back. and especially giving back to those who are in need. Giving back and start to make changes in your life, the life of your close circle and the life of the world’s society.

If a book can change the world I am convinced that the knowledge of the right type of travelling can change this world to a better place too.

With this project I want to start to establish a new understanding of travelling. 

To establish that travelling should not be a privilege anymore.

To establish that travelling should be done sustainable and authentical.

To establish that “Travel is a human right”!