https://www.scmp.com/rss/512137/feed Steph Dyson is a freelance travel journalist, guidebook author and blogger based between the UK and Latin America whose writing about sustainability and adventure travel has appeared in dozens of B2B and B2C travel publications. Her website, Worldly Adventurer, is one of the largest Latin America-dedicated blogs in the world. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com In the 16th century, when Portuguese sailors anchored at what would become known as Mauritius, they encountered a puzzling creature. Although it had the physiological necessities of a bird – primarily, wings – a lack of predators had left it without the most characteristic ability of a bird: flight. That inability, coupled with a fearlessness of humans and the animals they brought with them, signed this hapless creature’s death warrant. By 1690, the dodo had disappeared from the island,... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/travel/article/3220342/what-one-hotel-chain-mauritius-can-teach-us-about-sustainable-tourism-local-food-furniture-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/travel/article/3220342/what-one-hotel-chain-mauritius-can-teach-us-about-sustainable-tourism-local-food-furniture-and?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 14 May 2023 08:15:08 +0000 It’s the afternoon of a blazing hot day in the town of Pedasí, on Panama’s Pacific coast, 325km (200 miles) south of the capital, Panama City. The air throbs as a live band belts out rhythmic, drum-filled folk music. Buoyed by the festive atmosphere, villagers and visitors alike stand shoulder to shoulder as they embark on a muddy march forwards across a 10-metre (33 feet) plot of foot-churned earth, shimmying, bouncing and slipping as they go. As they reach the edge of the quag­mire, other... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/3171817/tourism-preserver-traditions-panama-it-engages-youth?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/3171817/tourism-preserver-traditions-panama-it-engages-youth?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 26 Mar 2022 11:45:13 +0000