Travelers are changing their habits as the climate deteriorates

Hi everyone. Not sure if guidebooks, agencies, and other tour operators are keeping up by changing their visiting hours and offerings. Personally, I see a promising opportunity here—jumping on this adaptation to extreme climates before others do, since they’re inevitably coming. From my own travel experience, I’ve met a few guides so far who are starting to adjust, like in Egypt, Kenya, Senegal, and elsewhere. They avoid crowds and the hottest hours by starting their tours around 6–7 AM, when it’s cooler. Yeah, you’ve gotta wake up early, but the payoff is so worth it. 😴 If you’ve got any great tips like this, why not discuss them in this thread and share addresses or websites where the people in charge have realized climate change is real and are adapting? 😊

When you find it’s too hot in a region, it’s simple—just move to higher altitude 😏 I used to live in Provence, but now I’m in the Vercors, and it’s much more bearable. I’ve never needed a guide to travel. For the past 53 years, I’ve mostly traveled in hot countries. Climate change will be my chance to discover cold ones—Lapland, Alaska, Kamchatka, etc. I’ll always set aside 2 or 3 days at the end of May in Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer to celebrate Saint Sarah. You, the Camarguaise, you know the area, I imagine? 😉

When you find it’s too hot in a region, it’s simple—just move to higher altitude I used to live in Provence, but now I’m in the Vercors, and it’s much more bearable. I’ve never needed a guide to travel. For the past 53 years, I’ve mostly traveled in hot countries… Climate change will be my chance to discover cold ones—Lapland, Alaska, Kamchatka, etc. I’ll always set aside 2 or 3 days at the end of May in Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer to celebrate Saint Sarah. You, the Camarguaise, you know the area, I imagine?[;]

Late May isn’t the best time to go to Les Saintes. Thousands of people attend this “festival” where the “pitches” vow not to steal anything 😂—that’s not how you discover the Camargue (late April or late October, *that’s* when there’s no one around except the real Camarguais, if any are left). Otherwise, the Gypsy festival reminds me of my ranch days. Practically all the horseback rides or trails close for the occasion because they’re afraid of trouble with the Gypsies. So I was pretty much the only one open—I’d get all the *gitanouss* who came to ride with me (always super cool). Except I’d remove all the saddles and tack, leaving them just a rope each wrapped around the horse’s muzzle That way, no damage from those “wild ones” who only came to gallop. For tips, they’d go all out (yeah, they’ve got money), just like the Italians—we won’t ask where their big bills come from 😂