Machu Picchu Unveiled - Leave No Trace - S01 EP01 - Travel Documentary
my name is Richard Crawford and I built my career on representing luxury Brands around the world and in doing so I've had the privilege of having some truly out of the ordinary experiences but at what cost it's getting harder and harder to blindly ignore the impact our extravagant lifestyle is having on the planet and its people so I've decided to invest the game whether there really is a sustainable way to visit the wonders of the world but still have extraordinary luxury can I have globetrotting Adventures without leaving a significant footprint well let's find out and by using the basic principles that Define equal tourism which are minimal impact sustainability social responsibility and of course let's not forget overall guest experience I will rate my travels around the planet to see if we really can make a difference strip takes me to South America and to the sacred Valley of Peru here I'll try my hand at some traditional farming spend the night hanging precariously from the side of a cliff meet the original Paddington Bear and finally get to take on a lifelong dream and Trek the Machu Pichu Trail all the while striving to leave no Trace [Music] together [Music] Peru offers some of the most naturally beautiful and biodiverse landscapes in the world however in the last decade the country has witnessed a major increase in tourism which has had a significant impact on both the environment and its people [Music] our experience in Peru begins right here in Cusco which is the capital of the ancient Inca civilization now at just over 11 000 feet it's the ninth highest city in the world I have to be honest I've came a little unprepared um I'm actually starting to feel the effects of altitude sickness right off the plane I'm a little light-headed I'm out of breath the air feels clean but it's very thin I'm having a little difficult time getting words from here to here but that's all just the effects now where I'm actually headed to is the sacred Valley and Cusco is the gateway to the sacred Valley so I decided to do something a little different this time I've rented a car I'm going to drive for about an hour and a half through beautiful countryside um now doing that with the effects of altitude and a country that I've never driven in before with beautiful scenery that distract me I'm not sure it's the best idea but hey let's see what the adventure brings us seriously we're not this is not I'm going back on that main Highway there's a road to the left of the prison there is yeah that's where we want to be up back on it is it going to take us back on it no and it was all going well until against my better judgment I took directions from my cameraman okay so where did we start before we came off this road somewhere so at this point it seemed a smart thing to do was to ask some locals so so follow this road down here and then I left Gracia wait a minute this was supposed to be a six-lane highway well maybe it was my rudimentary Spanish but it means it all sounds so simple this just doesn't look right and my biggest mistake was finally resorting to Google Maps the map tells me I'll be there in 27 minutes if I go at 60 miles an hour but I am officially lost but it is beautiful it's not a better place to be lost you want to get close to the edge band I'm not sure that the little Toyota Camry was built for this off-roading and the further we went well the worse that it got [Music] I love you guys um yeah oh God that's the undercarriage [Music] and what was according to Google Maps only supposed to be a 90 minute drive became an eight-hour Adventure and then we show up to this this little Oasis welcome to the sacred Valley [Music] I may have actually used several of my nine lives just to get here but as you can see from the scenery behind me it was absolutely worth it welcome to the sacred Valley of the Incas now let me give you a little bit of a history lesson the Incas lived here from the 13th to the 16th century and chose to live here for several reasons first of all it was close to their Capital Cusco also the climate here because it's 3000 feet lower than Cusco is which sits about 11 just over 11 000 feet it was a little warmer and definitely a little more comfortable they also had the river running right through the valley there which gave them a water source for drinking and for their crops now the Incas used to break their lands up into three one third for the emperor one-third for the religious establishments and a third for the working class what a lot of people don't realize is the Incas were only about 40 000 people who ruled over about 10 million people in Peru and they preferred to stay here and in fact this whole land was used mostly for their mansions and Royal Estates now about 1.2 million visitors come here every year which is fantastic for the economy and the community however it presents very large challenges when it comes to the environment and sustainability yes the money is good for the community but there's a huge impact on the environment so it's very difficult to balance that out we have come here because we've heard about a company called incatera who have been Pioneers in ecotourism since the early 1970s and in fact one of the properties is right down here at the base of this mountain in the middle of the valley and if we're lucky and I can make it down this mountain safely and get over there we'll find out some of the things that they're doing to face these challenges [Music] one of several properties located in eco-sensitive regions throughout Peru now as I mentioned before the whole reason that we are here is because these guys are true Pioneers in eco-tourism and in fact I've been doing it since 1978 at a time when ecotourism was not even a term and they covered three major regions research with the employer team of scientists who in their Studies have discovered over 1500 species of animals and plants including 28 that weren't previously known to science conservation the first Peruvian company recognized as being completely carbon neutral in 1989 and part of that is due to a 10 000 hectare Reserve which mitigates about 200 tons of carbon every year per hectare finally education would have employed and educated over 4 000 locals now because of all their of their efforts they've received many many accolades including being the first International Hotel Group to receive the international certificate of sustainable tourism in 2012. and if that is not enough the place is absolutely beautiful so let's go check it out [Music] the accommodations here on the property consist of 12 rooms in the main building and 25 individual VIP casinos which sit right on the back of the property and ultimately that's like having your own house but as you can see from these rooms just because you're being environmentally sensitive doesn't mean that you have to give up on style and in fact this property is a member of the National Geographic Great Lodges of the world it's also a member of Reliance Chateau organization who covers some of the best hotels anywhere [Music] a couple of nice touches that I personally like is each room has a nice little fireplace and not only that they warm your bed up at night with a nice little hot water bottle [Music] well good morning and welcome to another beautiful day here at the Inca Terra Hacienda urabamba right here in the sacred Valley which is about two hours from Cusco here in Peru now the sacred Valley was a favorite spot of the Incas so I thought I'd get out today with my guide and see some of that inking culture that the area is famous for so let's go check it out it's not surprising that an important part of the experience here is food and I don't just mean from a culinary point of view I mean also from a sustainability point of view and these guys have a philosophy of sourcing everything locally but they've actually taken it one step further they've built this 10 hectare farm right on the grounds and for example what we have here is a type of fava beam now this truly is Farm to Plate farmed right here plated right there now it is a short distance but nobody said it was going to be easy [Music] unfortunately the fields don't plow themselves and this is about as far as it gets for modern farming in fact this was a traditional method used hundreds and hundreds of years ago here in the valley um and I have my my trusty work guy here with me who by the way is wearing flip-flops which I think is absolutely incredible um do you have any words of advice for me good okay nothing how hard can it be okay here we go I really want to get a sense of how difficult this is okay let's go up up let's go let's I don't want to hit it hard there we go okay oh yeah this is it's not easy this I mean I'm I'm already worn out you know there are easier ways to do this attractor perhaps but here it's about sustaining traditional methods and keeping the carbon footprint to a minimum the local farmers sure made it look easy but the equipment is heavy and the Animals well they have a mind of their own but there you go outside outside of the difficulty it smells like crap you know I'm glad dinner tonight isn't relying on me because I just keep plowing the same thing over and over the fruits of my labor I've never actually had to work so hard for a plate of french fries big thank you to you nothing there you go that's what I thought to the anchors maze was a very important crop and not just for eating they also used to make chicha from it and chicha is an Incan beer which they drink vast quantities of at celebrations and festivals and as a Scotsman I can testify that the backbone of any great society is a good stiff drink and I tell you what after deploying that field today I need a good stiff drink so I've come here to the house of chicha without actually going to teach me how to make that beer using all the traditional methods let's go check it out so how do we get from green to Glass well according to my guide it's pretty easy so it starts off with the maze it's soaked in water for a few days it's dried up and it germinates and we're left with this then we grind it on a traditional grinding stone and in keeping with our efforts to sustain minimal impact on the environment you will notice that there is no electrical Machinery in here don't imagine I'm getting much beer out of this so we then put the Maize into the pot to boil it's quite phallic I have to say well maybe not okay it's filtered through the woven basket foreign overnight but in order to increase the rate of fermentation a little bit we're actually going to add a little beer that we made from last night and help move along that process a little bit so let me just put some of that into here and now all that's left to do is let this sit for about several days and it'll be ready meantime I think it's just about time now for me to try this no but not so fast local tradition requires that we first offer a little bit out of our glass Back To Nature so we're pouring a little bit of this out to thank Mother Earth and the father of the heavens okay then here we go how much just a little bit because I'm Scottish with a little Frugal okay I don't like to spill a lot of drink okay is that good now I get to taste it okay here goes um it smells grainy so and of course one glass became two two glasses became three cheers and three became well the floor I love you teacher [Music] just outside of town of matters here in the sacred Valley are these La Minas de sal these massive salt mines which predate Inca however the Incas themselves created this very sophisticated system of pools and Terraces to harvest the salt now today it's a huge tourist attraction but it is still being used as a salt mine which is pretty fascinating and what really really got me was is we came around the corner there in this massive salt mine revealed itself right in the middle of this Valley I was so awestruck it's important to note that although there is controversy concerning salt mining around the world here at the Salinas de Maris all salt is harvested using the sustainable and ethical traditional system of water channeling the whole process starts here at what seems like a rather unassuming little stream it actually Flows at about eight liters per second and you can see where it's coming right out of the mountain there where it's already gained all of its solidity and you can see also um just on the bank above the little stream there some salt deposits so this is at the very top where the stream first enters the Salt Ponds so I figure I come up here and give it a little taste oh yeah it's pretty salty you can take my word for it interesting aspect of these Salt Flats for me is that they're owned by local families and they've been owned for Generations all the way back to the Incas now what's important also is that all these families work in harmony to control the water flow so that they can maximize their yield of the salt out of the pools also if you are a new member of the community your Salt Flat is all the way there at the end however if you know you're one of The Originals then you have prime location right up front now it's estimated that each pool produces about 150 kilograms a month now given the fact that there's about 3 000 pools here that equates to about four and a half million kilograms a year that is then distributed throughout the whole world so the way that this works is the water is gravity fed into these top poles and continues to be gravity fed throughout all the different Terraces below and the Inc has built these centuries ago and what's fascinating to me is that they're still building them today now the water comes in here and it sits for a few days and with the Sun the water evaporates and leaves behind this Crystal and salt and on the top layer which takes about a week to get this white fine salt however the next layer down which takes about a month you get a good pink rock salt so these salt flats are incredibly important to the economy of the community and as well as having the regular flavor salts and bath salts they have salted chocolate and you can even get some salt carvings and it's probably going to be much cheaper for me to buy here than it is back home so excuse me the more I find out about the end because the more apparent it is to me how clever they were between their massive salt mines and the sophisticated systems of variegation however probably what was the most ingenious thing at least for me was here in Mori at this archaeological ruins site and basically what this was we think was a government-run agricultural laboratory and what they've done is they've created from top to bottom 18 different layers and each one is its own little micro climber and in fact the difference in temperature from the top to the bottom is 15 degrees Centigrade which is pretty significant and what they would do was they'd go different crops at different levels to find out how these crops grew in those micro climates and then distribute that throughout the whole empire I mentioned at the top that there would be a change in temperature and I definitely felt that coming down here it's much cooler down here and it's a little windier now what these guys managed to do was utilize the angle of the sun and the lay of the land and also bring in soils from different parts of their empire for example they brought in sand from the coast black soil from the Amazon and they would go to their crops in these different soils to see what the outcome was and to be honest that's biodiversity in the Middle Ages unfortunately there were some floods several years ago and we had a collapsing of some of the Terraces out there and unless the appropriate measures are taking place this might not be here for future Generations [Music] well my time here the encatera urobamba is coming to a close but tomorrow I'm heading out into the sacred Valley to explore a little more of what it has to offer let me tell you I'm also looking forward to tomorrow night's accommodation but until then I'm going to gaze upon the SARS the same stars that the ancient pink has looked at and I'm going to enjoy my homemade chicha salute [Music] so I've just jumped back into the trusty old car and I'm going to give Google Maps one last chance I'm heading to an equal Adventure Lodge which everybody tells me is going to be the height of my experience here in Peru well I think I'm here according to Google Maps this is the Sky Lodge um okay well hey I'm Richard Crawford nice to meet you nice to meet you sir I am America I will be here for today you'll be our guide good um so obviously I'm in the right place but um it was our accommodation up there sir what no those little pods up there there's a little I guess that's where you get the name skylars right yeah hold on let this sink in for a minute I'm not 100 sure I was prepared for that how do we get there we're going to climb on this middle of the stars and middle can you see it over there those little pieces of metal hanging out the rock that's how we get up all the way it up no pulley system no me getting on your back again up there no cable car ah okay well I'll climb by yourself well as I like to say what can go wrong okay let's go my guide America tells me there's three parts or Suites up there as well as a dining pod and as you can see from this they're made from a very lightweight frame and completely covered in perspex and I hear there's bathrooms on there too so that should make it pretty interesting but what's fascinating is they were they were all made and assembled right here in the valley well I guess it's time to get harnessed up and and see how this goes thanks America I have to say I've checked into many hotels in my lifetime um never like this it's actually used to keep all your brains in one place so they can pick them up actually I'm not nervous at all I I don't have an issue with Heights but at the same time I'm like down here in the bottom I'm not nervous I'm actually really excited and looking forward to it [Music] thankfully there is a trend today when building new hotels to leave as little an impact as possible on the environment but there are few who can claim to leave as minimal a Chase as the Adventure Sky lodges [Music] Mountain higher cable and using some iron rods that are basically attached to the mountain and it's known as via farati which is Italian for iron waste and it was used initially by the Italian special forces in the first world war now it is making it a little bit easier and gives me a little bit of a more of a confidence boost to know that I'm attached in some way but it's still quite the track [Music] as if the climb wasn't difficult enough halfway up the mountain a drone decided it needed a software update which I actually believe it or not needed a cell phone connection now I don't know about you but I can't even get reception in the middle of the city let alone hanging off the side of a Peruvian Cliff needless to say Ben or camera operator was less than impressed let's go to the Sky Lodge he said it'll be fun he said yeah great [Music] things were getting a little tough and just when I thought I was about to give up thankfully the sky lodges came into sight finally we'd arrived well I've done 900 steps and what is half a kilometer up I finally made it to what it's probably one of the most unique hotels I've ever seen and I have to say it was a lot more strenuous than I even anticipated and it's really not for the faint of heart and if you're scared of heights this is not the hotel for you [Music] let's go check in reservations for Crawford [Music] now this this is really cool so this is a reception and the dining area and also I will presume the business center but what it's not are the bedrooms and the bathrooms and we'll get to that in just a little minute but literally we're hanging off the edge of a cliff here you can tell from the shield drop behind us that there's nothing below us nothing below this floor and everything is held up by cables now fortunately I'm going to have a little dinner before I go to my room tonight and bed down um and believe it or not I was able to pre-order that how are you chef good good which by the way you better get it right because I don't want to have to send it back [Music] so I'm really surprised that the food looks fantastic I had a huge selection to choose from I had to pre-order it um but what's fascinating about this place is everything has to be literally brought up by hand whether it's your spoon a knife glassware paper towels everything but it's well worth the view [Music] [Applause] [Music] well I've checked in and I asked for the room on a high floor and let's be honest it doesn't get any higher than this America thanks for getting here uh alive and well um this is one of three parts um are there any plans at all to to have more no no not at all no no because we think just three gonna be special you know more just gonna be commercial too commercial if you do too many the owners have made that decision the owner was thinking about teams yeah so that's three enough so to keeping it three really keeps it Boutique okay well I have to say I every time I check into a hotel and I put my key in the door I I always have a little anticipation and and curiosity as to what the room is going to look like and I I feel the same way right now so here we go entering my room and a pod on the side of a sheer cliff [Music] Okay so it really was quite the Trek but here I am finally in the famous pod Hotel of Peru and nice we have little coffee maker here this is for room service so if I need anything I guess I just call them in the bottom and bring it right up I don't know how um as expected it is a very small um but it actually sleeps for people so behind this flap lies the answer to a major question that I have and I'm sure a lot of you have out there how do we actually go to the bathroom in this thing now I'm expecting to go in there and see a nice rain shower jacuzzi tub maybe even a little bidet let's go check it out well yeah well there's none of that um but I guess considering the fact that we have a sink and a commode that's pretty good the only thing is there's a little lack of privacy that can be a little off-putting hello so all kidding aside the waste management practices is actually really really eco-friendly it's actually a dry toilet where all the waste is collecting a bag full of lime and it's taken down every day and destroyed so there's this wonderful king-size bed back here and two singles and obviously wires are not running all the way up from the ground so everything is solar powered including these lights in here so privacy is actually not that bad because you have all these curtains if you want to pull them over but I am actually going to keep them all open because I want to watch the Stars tonight and look right down the valley the only stipulation that they have is if you leave the Pod you have to put all this harness back on and I really don't want to bother with that so I'm just going to go to bed and keep it on my only hope is this that I don't have one of those dreams where I'm falling [Music] oh good morning good morning well considering I was hanging off the side of a mountain I actually got a really really good night's sleep but if you think getting up here was difficult if you see the way we get down [Music] so it's a series of six zip lines from top to bottom and these are not just your regular run-of-the-mill Fairgrounds zip lines these are pretty damn fast and a really really long unfortunately I don't have to carry much luggage but there is enough in there for clean underwear here we go we're good yeah [Music] subscribe [Music] Kevin and Hawk Kevin Hart man I came in hot I tell you what thank you I tell you what every part of this experience going up spending the night coming down was absolutely incredible and it's not every day that you check into hotel and spend the night and you can die at every turn I better go thank you so much man I appreciate that let me give you a big problem thank you thank you buddy oh what's next the next part of our journey takes us deep into the cloud forest to the encaterra Machu Picchu Pueblo which will be our home for the next couple of days as we explore Machu Picchu now the only way to get here is by real from Orient and Taboo in a sacred Valley which is a feat of Engineering in itself the tracks were late in the 1930s but there's very little land to put it on you're hugging the mountains on one side and the urabamba River on the other fortunately the carriages have these huge pins of glass in the roof so it makes for quite the spectacular Journey foreign [Music] we still have an environmental impact it is considerably less than those abroad in air travel using as much as 30 percent less energy per passenger Mountain cars and 20 percent less than planes which makes this part of my journey all the more guilt-free not that I had any choice [Music] our next stop in the sacred Valley is another encaterra property this time in Machu Picchu Pueblo smack bang in the middle of a cloud forest quite aptly named by the way because there's not a lot around here but forest and clouds and an interesting fact there's only about one percent of the Earth's surface as cloud forest and it's basically a micro climate it lives between the high and in mountains and the little Amazon River itself I feel like I'm in some lost jungle somewhere and I'm really looking forward to what this place has to offer [Music] foreign [Music] the property sits at the base of the valley surrounded by really steep mountains and it was originally a Tea Plantation that the owners of encantara bought in the early 1990s and built this hotel and it truly is being pulled into the canopy of the forest in fact so much so even from above you can hardly see it even the wires themselves in the power lines are all been covered in vines that makes it feel like the forest is just pulling it back in [Music] ecotourism is so important to encotera that even have their own Eco Center here that employs nine guides I sat down with one of the guides Carmen to ask away ecotourism was so important to inkatera in Catera does responsible tourism tourism for tomorrow thinking in the next Generations so we actually work with kids of this town Machu Picchu Pueblo well known as Aguascalientes with workshops every every chair so we teach them the importance of all these beautiful environments the importance of each of these single species of wildlife Carmen agreed to take me on an Eco tour of the property starting with one of the most popular activities which is bird watching I was also surprised to learn that the property actually has the largest collection of orchids anywhere in the world but for me I was most excited because apparently I was about to meet the original Paddington Bear the people here at encaterra are committed to conservation and as part of that they have a bare Rehabilitation Center which is made up basically of two parts this first area which is the fully captive area where they can actually study the Bear's behavior and then hopefully move them on to the secondary area the semi-captive area and finally from there out into the wild and here we have a 30 year old bear called Pepe who was actually rescued from a zoo [Music] a little fact that most people might not know is that Paddington Bear yep the great little cute Paddington Bear was from the deepest darkest Peru and he was in fact an Andean spectacled bear so this is the second area that we were talking about earlier at the semi-captive area as you can see it's much bigger it's still enclosed and that's to protect the Bears obviously Coco here was found as a cub by a professor who initially kept them even though it was illegal but the professor felt that it was safer for the cup to stay with him however as the years has the months and years passed Coco began to get bigger and bigger and uh was too much for the professor who reached out to incotera and these guys have taken cocoa in and preparing them hopefully to get them out into the wild the Indian beer rescue center is just one of the many conservation initiatives funded by the inkatera Association this self-funded not-for-profit organization has been providing research conservation and education throughout Peru since 1978. [Music] so just like little bomba they have their own Farm here but it's significantly different first of all in Alabama it was very flat here was surrounded by Lush Green Mountains and the produce is a little different it was mostly grains and Obama and here we have vegetables like this zucchini and fruit like this passion fruit they also make their own honey and the beehives up there but this is as close as I'm going to get because well I'm no beekeeper and unfortunately much to my horror I will soon to find out that bees weren't the only living species on this Farm so they don't just Farm fruit and vegetables here and I've traveled all around the world and I completely understand different cultures and different kinds of food but um since we've been here there's a couple of things on the menu that I've seen one of them being llama and the other one is um this guinea pig and if you look around here it's just tough to see but they're actually farming these guys for the table and uh it's oh this is tough to do and I'll tell you another little secret my cameraman band is actually a vegetarian and I don't imagine you're having much fun in here are you man no run run be free [Music] the hotel is located in a little town called Agua Caliente which literally translates to Hot Springs and even on the property of the hotel they have little hot springs up here which I'm going to get into in just a minute but first of all after a long day farming making tea and looking at Bears I want to have a nice Andean sauna which is in this little thatched heart and there's a lot of Eucalyptus in there which is my favorite uh scent you can see the smoke coming right at the top they say that it's really really warm so let's go give it a shot oh that really is hot good morning it's early um and I've got Carmen up early here with me because she's going to be my guy today up at uh the ancient incuroons of Machu Picchu now we're here early but there's still a big line people are waiting on a bus to take them up to the beginning of the hike that gets you up to Machu Picchu which is actually one of the concerns that I have there's this many people this early in the morning what is the effect on tourism on places like Machu Picchu um and I'm really looking forward to getting up there and checking that out but I want to get an idea and I'm sure Carmen will explain to me um how it really is affecting the Peruvian government themselves have put some stipulations on the amount of people that can get up there so let's go check it out and see what it's like thank you [Music] so welcome to Machu Picchu that might be time for another little bit of a history lesson Machu Picchu itself was built around 1450 during the height of the Inca Empire but it was only inhabited for about 100 years and there most of them were gone by about 1540 and there's a couple of theories as to why they left the first theory is that they believed that the conquistadors were going to come up take over and destroy the place the second theory is that there was disease and virus that they couldn't fight that was killing the population off so everybody left for that reason and a third theory is that some of the local tribes who were not under the Incan Empire at the time were going to come from the mountains and take over also what we do know is that the Conquistadors didn't make it here which is partly the reason that it's so well preserved and it's one of the most famous Inca sites in the world uh excuse me I'm looking for the gift shop this way thank you [Music] the place was abandoned in about 1540 and was basically relatively undisturbed for about 370 years when an American by the name of Hiram Bingham discovered the place in 1911. he was actually looking for somewhere else but some local farmers brought him up here and he discovered Machu Picchu now there is a little bit of a controversy because Hiram Bingham was part of yo University and he took a lot of the artifacts from here to Yale and it was only in 2011 that most of those artifacts actually came back to the original place [Music] this is the secret Plaza but as you can see behind me today there's not much sacred about it and it kind of brings up a point that I talked about earlier you have to wonder what the impact on a place like this is from all of these tourists now when this was originally built the thing there was about 400 permanent inhabitants here maybe a thousand when an emperor came to visit but today there's 4 000 people that's 10 times the amount of people it was originally built for every day coming through here and what's really surprising to me is how how open it is to these tourists like there's no guard rails there's no ropes to keep people back from the actual ruins themselves just walking down here you see people sitting all over them and that has to it has to have some kind of some kind of an impact unfortunately um the Peruvian government are taking some steps and are taking some further steps and a few months to where they're limiting the amount of people that can come visit here um I think two sessions a day and limiting the amount of people that can be in those sessions um but I hope it's not too little too late because honestly I would like my kids and and their kids and generations after that to come see this [Music] wow what an incredible view now you can actually see why it's called the cloud forest so my time here is coming to an end and Carmen thank you so much for guiding me around here I really appreciate it I have to say I was really Blown Away by the place I've seen it in pictures a thousand times but it does it absolutely no justice and you can see why in 1983 it was made a UNESCO human heritage site and then in 2007 it was actually voted one of the new Seven Wonders of the World English for Peru is that their economy is in desperate need of the tourist dollars but the environment is in desperate need of protection from those same tourists fortunately Eco Resorts like encaterra are leading the way and the hope is that the Peruvian government and the private sector follow their lead but for me it's time to head back to the airport at Cusco they pulled over they pulled over as a group thank you so thank you thank you very much no problems at all everything was perfect nice flat roads up there well Peru what an incredible journey this has been but where do you really sit on the leave no Trace equal score card while taking into account all of our criteria of minimal impact sustainability social responsibility and guest experience I give this trip an overall grade of B now to get a more in-depth analysis of how I scored this trip visit the website at leave notrace.tv and what was really interesting on this trip was how an organization like incotera is
managing the volume of tourism in relation to the environment I just hope that the measurements are putting in place keep these places beautiful for generations to come so the next time you travel do so as an equal tourist I'm Richard Crawford and when you travel next time leave no Trace everybody [Music]
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