our (virtual) trek to everest base camp

Guess what, everybody? We’re trekking to Everest Base Camp this week! Not literally--but virtually! It's a fundraising effort to raise money for Planeterra Foundation as part of the Planeterra Trek Challenge. Tom, David, and Erin — 100% of our little travel business — will walk 65km over the course of the week to help fund sustainable travel and tourism infrastructure around the globe. That’s more than 85,000 steps!

If you’ve traveled with us before, or even if you’ve just been following our adventures, you know that we’re really passionate about authentic travel and that one of the central values in our business is the idea of doing some good when you travel. That’s why we partner with companies like G Adventures, which is our preferred supplier partner for sustainable small-group journeys. G Adventures, through the Planeterra Foundation, funds development projects all around the globe, which build infrastructure for sustainable travel. And not just environmentally sustainable travel—they focus on social, economic, and cultural sustainability, too!

When we took our group to Morocco with G Adventures last year, we had the opportunity to eat at a community restaurant that was supported by the Planettera Foundation. The restaurant was part of an education and literacy project for single and divorced women, who don’t have many employment opportunities in Morocco.

In Peru, where we’re hosting a group in April, our National Geographic Journeys tour with G Adventures will also visit some Planeterra-funded projects. We’ll visit the Parque de la Papa (the Potato Park), where a small local community in the Andes operates an educational program to share the importance of cultivating potatoes with G Adventures’ travelers. But not only that—this project is one of the few seed banks for potatoes in the world. We’ll also visit a community restaurant, and a women’s weaving collective—supporting local communities with our tourism dollars.

The problem is that these important projects are largely funded by your travel and tourism dollars when you visit their projects. And since COVID-19 has stopped travel in its tracks worldwide, these projects haven’t been funded at all in several months.

So, how can you help?

Make a donation on our fundraising page.

We'd love it if you would support our efforts by making a donation of any amount. Just click this button to be taken to our And if you'd like to join us by trekking in your hometown, we'd love your support in that way, too!

Our fundraising page is at: https://give.classy.org/HuckleberryTravel

Join our team and trek with us.

If you’re looking for motivation to get out of the house and get fit, what better way to get your steps in than by supporting a good cause? We’d love it if you joined Team Huckleberry Travel. Feel free to share our page on social media and ask your friends and family to support your virtual trek!

Travel with us on a G Adventures trip.

For every G Adventures trip booked between now and the end of the year through Huckleberry Travel, we’ll be making an additional donation to the Planeterra Foundation on your behalf. Maybe you want to join our group and come to Peru with us next spring. Perhaps you’d like to pull your own group together to see Angkor Wat on a tour to Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and VietNam. Maybe a safari that includes a visit to a clean cookstoves project in Kenya would be a bucket-list experience for you. We’d love to send you on a life-changing journey with G Adventures, because not only will it change your life, you’ll also be changing the lives of the local communities you visit.

Of course, you can keep up with our progress on social media, or by looking at the running total on our fundraising page. So, how about it, Huckleberry Travelers? Want to do some good this week? Let’s do it!