The Top Eco Travel Ideas For 2024

Book sustainably and responsibly with these fun, eco-friendly Culture Trip adventures around the globe.

Make this the year you see the natural wonders of the world without abandoning your sustainability principles. Trade pavement pounding for walks in nature, allowing your soles to traverse Thailand’s jungles, Costa Rica’s volcanoes and the African savannah. Soak up the vibrancy that only tropical plants, volcanic cones and rushing rivers can create. Collect some of this year’s top eco travel ideas and trek across our planet responsibly with these environmentally conscious Culture Trips, and read our Commitment to Responsible Travel to find out more about how we keep our trips good for the planet.

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Train from Nuwara Eliya to Kandy among tea plantations in the highlands of Sri Lanka

Discover the tea plantations and national parks of Sri Lanka

This beautiful South Asian island is testament to the beauty of our planet, and our 10-day Rail Trip relies on eco-friendly train travel to whizz you around the country. In the central heartlands of the island you’ll take an authentic cooking class at a local family’s home, as well as visiting a local brass cutting factory to learn about the regional economy. The highlight of the trip is a stunning afternoon train ride from Kandy to Ella, which winds along splendid tea plantations, rural villages and epic stone bridges. After basking in the extraordinary natural surrounds of Ella, we’ll spend a day spotting leopards, elephants and crocodiles in Udawalawe National Park, followed by a visit to Elephant Transit Home, a sanctuary that rehabilitates orphaned or abandoned baby elephants before releasing them back into the wild.

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Trip highlights and details

STARTS AT Tirana, Albania

ENDS AT Dubrovnik, Croatia

DURATION 11

GROUP SIZE 16

PHYSICAL RATING

Moderate

STYLE

Discovery

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This is an updated version of an article originally contributed to by Nick Dauk, Lorna Turnbull, Chloe Thrussell and Louis Rabinowitz.

About the author

Gethin Morgan

Content Editor

Gethin Morgan has developed an exciting portfolio across a series of roles at Culture Trip. With a keen interest in food and drink, Gethin is also particularly interested in niche or alternative travel which, in his case, usually involves following the Wales national soccer team to Europe's most obscure cities.