Nov 10, 2020 | Community Projects, Covid19, OLA Giving Back
World Kindness Day | How To Spread Some Extra Kindness November 13th is World Kindness Day and we don’t think this could be any more relevant in these difficult times, especially with a few of us going back into a second lockdown. In honour of this, we thought we’d...
Sep 9, 2020 | Adventure Travel, Backpacking, Community Projects, Travel Tips
8 Easy Swaps for Eco-Friendly Travel If you’re like me, you might find that getting organised for your next adventure is half the fun! You might also find that you’re constantly on the lookout for more of an environmentally friendly way to travel overseas, but you’re...
Nov 11, 2019 | Community Projects, OLA Giving Back, Sri Lanka, Travel Tips
5 Ways to Travel Sri Lanka More Sustainably! Last year, over 2 million people visited Sri Lanka, and when you contemplate the country’s pristine mountains, beaches, waterfalls and jungles, it’s easy to see why so many travellers go there year after year! This small...
Jul 17, 2017 | Community Projects, OLA Giving Back
Supporting Local Schools Mahatma Gandhi once said “by education, I mean an all-round drawing out of the best in the child and man; body, mind and spirit”. Education is crucial; children are quite literally the future. With each generation comes a huge shift in the way...
Jul 17, 2017 | Community Projects, OLA Giving Back
Local Communities Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few years, you’ll know the travel industry is continuing to grow exponentially. Rewind even just 10 years, and travel has gone from being a pipe dream for many to being much more accessible. From...
Jul 16, 2017 | Community Projects, OLA Giving Back
Reducing Plastics 8 million metric tonnes of plastic enter the ocean & kill more than 100,000 marine animals every year Plastic has been found 7 miles deep in the ocean, contaminating some of the most remote parts of the world By 2050, scientists estimate there...