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GAIA Slow-Tours
OUTDOOR EDUCATIONAL ECO-EXPERIENCE:
KNOWING OUR ROOTS, TRADITIONS AND HERITAGE
AND RESPECT THEM!
GAIA ECO-LEARNING COMMUNITY
For the whole family
GAIA SLOW-TOURS: Friday excursions in a family and rural atmosphere full of unforgettable surprises for big, small and medium sized people. A wonderful opportunity to do slow rural tourism and, at the same time, to complement the education of your children in an environment of Nature, respect and sustainability that puts in value our patrimony, customs and traditions in a very amusing and original way.
Good for the environment
This educational route of "slow tourism", with small groups and in a rural environment of the Axarquia of Malaga, is designed to generate the minimum impact between the community of people who inhabit it, and the Nature around them. In addition, all food and gifts offered to visitors are organically produced, vegan and as local and seasonal as possible.
Educational and environmental awareness tour
Seeing, hearing, touching, smelling and feeling why certain practices collaborate to take care of the planet, while we take care of people, will be an unforgettable sensory experience that will help us understand why we have reached the state of declared climate emergency and reflect on what we can do to reverse the situation in our daily lives; at home, school, work, holidays, etc.
GAIA-SLOW TOURS
Our exclusive program of excursions "GAIA-SLOW TOURS" consists of a weekly offer, always on Fridays, where the participants of our educational eco-community GAIA, both the children alone with our accompanists, or including their relatives, can enjoy a different educational day in rural environments - of explosive nature normally -, and where, in addition, the historical-landscape-cultural wealth of the municipality, and, especially, of the region of the Axarquía, is put in value.
Natural Parks, parks and botanical routes, centenary farms and estates, ecological plantations, edible forests, Permaculture projects, museums, beaches of the Maro cliffs, agro-ecology, livestock, mycology and sustainable beekeeping, are some examples of our proposals.
Due to the great acceptance and demand that exists on the part of tourists, foreign resident families, and Spanish families that want to complement the education of their children with a more outdoor educational proposal that puts in value the environmental education and in values, we have decided to open our program of excursions of Fridays also to visitors
SUMMARY OF A STANDARD ITINERARY
After a brief introduction about the educational day and the place that hosts it at the meeting point, the guide and coordinator of the Gaia Educational ECO-community, a renowned anthropologist, permaculturist and journalist from Malaga, will offer several sessions and charming walks accompanied, if necessary, by the owners or guardians of the place, immersing the visitor in the eco-experience carefully designed for that Friday. CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT WHERE THE NEXT PROPOSAL WILL BE!
The highlight of the day will undoubtedly be to share the impressions/reflections of the inspiring experience, tasting a vegan lunch or dinner with seasonal organic products in a circle.
SLOW TOUR DETAILS
Meeting point: Depends on the excursion
Meeting time: around 9:30 a.m. or 15 pm (depend on the proposal)
Dates available:
Every Friday of the 2021/22 school year
Languages: Spanish / English / German and /Italian. French possible too!!
Total duration: 5/6h
PRICES (include: Logistics, materials, reserves and vegan organics meals.)
CHILDRENS:
-BETWEEN 3 AND 15 YEARS OLD: 30 €
ADULTS:
-NON-MEMBER of our Association : 20 €
-SEMILLA MONTE ALEGRE MEMBERS: 15 €
-GAIA LEARNING ECOCOMMUNITY: 10 €
PROMOTION DAY:
Promotion day are always the 3rd Friday of the month. In that day the maximum are 16 participants. The price Includes organic vegan breakfast and lunch or dinner)
CHILDRENS:
-BETWEEN 3 AND 12 YEARS OLD: 20 €
ADULTS:
-NON-MEMBER ADULTS: 15 €
-MEMBERS: 10 €
-ADULT GAIA LEARNING ECOCOMMUNITY: 10 €
PRIVATE TOURS
Call us to see if we are availeble for private tours on weekend!!
Promotion for the 2021/22 school year of private educational tours on weekends: (from 6 children on)
CHILDRENS:
BETWEEN 3 AND 15 YEARS OLD: 35 €
NON-MEMBER ADULTS: 25 €
WE OFFER
Possibility to organize transportation to the space. Consult for more information
What it includes:
- Educational Slow-Tour with small groups of maximum 16 participants and many sensory experiences.
- GAIA Breakfast with tasting of fruits, products and wild/cultivated plants from the areas to be visited
- Vegan lunch
- A souvenir gift
Choose your best option!
View next tour
Excursion to the Sierra de Periana next Friday, February 7th
Children: 30
Adults: 20
Buy promotional tour!
Promotional tour 3 Fridays of the month
Children: 20 euros
Adults: 15 euros
Choose a date
Private Weekend Tours
Children: 35
Adults: 25 euros
Contact us for availability
FEBRUARY'S PROMO GAIA SLOW-TOUR
Next Friday 14th of January we will visit a singular place of the Axarquia of Malaga in the surroundings of Periana near the mountains of Alhama - 1500 m- and Enmedio -1416 m.
During the visit, we will drink from pure water springs, eat nuts and pick up walnut seedlings, harvest wild plants and fruits and visit charming and historical villages of 1 inhabitant that are in the process of being depopulated.
After an energetic breakfast, we will get to know some very old cortijos and haciendas in the sierra where hundreds of sheep graze in a forest of basophilic oaks, gall oaks, oaks, musks, hawthorns, and bushes such as kermes oak and piornal.
Between the Sierra de Alhama and the Sierra de Gallo-Vilo we will go up winding on the road that goes up to Alfarnate to visit one of the most attractive places of its territory: the Puerto del Sol.
To end the day, we will have a picnic lunch at around 13:300h near the highest point and take an unforgettable walk around the sunny terraces near Puerto del Sol where hundreds of mountain goats, wild boars, rabbits, hares, foxes, etc. come down to drink from a natural spring every day. Spectacular sunny viewpoint protected from the north face by the mountains, from where you can see all of Axarquia and its spectacular Sierra de Tejeda and Almijara, Africa and the beyond...
On the way back, descending from the Sierra, we will visit one of the few remaining spas with sulphurous waters in the peninsula. These famous Baños de Vilo, came to be considered in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as one of the most important in Andalusia due to the important medicinal properties of its waters.
From the hamlet of Vilo to that of La Muela, we will pass through the nucleus of Guaro where the gentle slopes are covered with olive trees, pastures and cereals, and, where water is available, we will see varieties of fruit trees (especially peach trees) that are increasing as the orchards approach the banks of the river where orange and lemon trees abound, making this area one of the most productive.
CONTACT AND NETWORKS
Raquel Dominguez Segura
659109809
semilla@semillamontealegre.org
https://www.facebook.com/semillamontealegre/
www.semillamontealegre.org