14/08/2026
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Lamay, 9,560ft in Peru’s Sacred Valley: this is what true community-based tourism looks like.
Franco Negri set up La Base Lamay which has worked with since the beginning to create indigenous-positive, community-first respectful travel experiences where everyone in the community benefits. This is a gallery of photographs by my creative wingwoman just from 24 hours here in the mountains: a walk and talk through the village, then up into the mountains to sit with farming families still growing corn, potatoes, tarwi and quinoa exactly as their ancestors did.
I have a crazy theory that soon we’ll have apps that read the nutritional content of what’s on our plates — and that we’ll start choosing nutrition-led trips and pick where we travel to based on soil health and the vitamins and minerals that land yields. These farmers grow organically, naturally — commercially they can’t compete with Big Ag’s “perfect” produce — yet what they grow is immeasurably better for us: one of the many examples of a lack of meritocracy in this world we can try and counter through sensitively distributed luxury travel
Nourishing chitchats over chicha — the sacred fermented corn drink — videos in my Peru highlights, full details on Substack soon 🇵🇪
Trips like this, booked through Aracari, and curated by feel nutritious as a traveller plus they are pure economic vitamins to the communities hosting.
This is what regenerative travel looks like when guides and community-based tourism businesses who have spent years building real trust plan your itinerary — and it’s these kinds of local local local rural experiences we should seek out as travellers for the best two-way cultural exchanges ❤️❤️❤️
