Guided tour = tour operator?

There are humble projects that are born with the idea of helping to know to the travelers the customs and surroundings that they visit. These simple projects, are very distant of the tourist packages proposed by the big operators.

We are a small family businesses where the workers, encouraged by the desire to collaborate in the knowledge of places and people, offer a close and personalized treatment to our visitors.

The illusion in our proposal and the knowledge of the environment, allow us to transmit our personality giving singularity to the experiences of the traveler.

Neither can we, nor is it our goal to compete with the big bets of multinational companies. The scope of our work is local and often not understood in our own area of influence by people who live in the area:

"... The roads are indicated and signposted ... whoever wants to see them can finds them ..."

Is a phrase we can hear from the locals, and somehow is true.

Guided tourism does not pretend to discover anything hidden; Nature, heritage, peoples, are there for those who want to find them.

Guided tourism linkes the anecdote to the place, the legend to the environment, the didactic explanation of the geological formation of mountains and valleys, as well as the story of the origin of the settlements of towns and their people.

We like to call this guided tourism "active cultural tourism" and it is an ageless tourism, it only requires sensitivity and interest in knowledge.

Sustainable tourism

Family Experience

We have for some time been defining the term "active cultural tourism", differentiating it from "active tourism" witch is related to risk activities.

Going camping with our son is tourism, because we leave the comfortable environment where we usually live, is cultural because we know places, customs or gastronomy and is active because it requires a dynamic attitude.

It is an activity that is frequently declined in third parties for its accomplishment: school, farm educational centers, companies specialized in camps and so on. But when we choose this way to approach our children to nature, parents are not involve, they are not there.

The difficulty to do it ourselves is that usually we don't know the places to do it with guarantees of success, being sure our family will be safe.

If you want to enjoy an adventure experience with your kids, there are companies that give us technical support and safety guarantees.

Your family will have an experience they will always remember because being in an environment far from the usual of our life, always leaves a mark.

Holidays with children

Any age...

... is suitable for walking, knowing, tasting, with no hurry.

I would say even more; walking, knowing, tasting with no rush is advisable at any age.

Nowadays the access to information is really easy and that lead us to label, fit, facts with moments, ages with activities, environments with behaviors.

I have noticed that there is less and less personal commitment in individual actions, it seems that the most comfortable thing is to follow the script of what is expected from us according to our circumstances. This makes today's trips are based mainly on the tour packages. Today the agencies are even able to prepare an 'adventure product' with all naturalness, omitting the strong contradiction that it entails.

I recall the memory of a friend with who I went on an impromptu trip to central Europe and after 9 days of travel he said to me: Aren't we having a good time?"

It was the first time he was on a trip without a well defined objective and he was lacked references.

I think this new way of tourism has led to us to move more around the world but do fewer trips. There are more visited monuments and cities but less known places,

This is what encourages us to struggle for active cultural tourism, for the trips made for knowing, for vacations full of walking, observing, discovering. This is the purpose of Conyegar.

Knowing places with Conyegar, Spain