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Discover incredible adventures in various destinations and get tips on staying active while exploring without missing out on the experience.
You’ll find plenty of advice on planning your trip more efficiently and sustainably. Planning a trip can be incredibly time-consuming, but I’m here to help make it easier.
Ecotourism is an important topic that you will find here, together with sustainable travel practices and how to improve how we travel while minimizing damage to nature.
As many blogs already cover popular activities and tourist attractions in various destinations, I prefer to seek out unique, off-the-beaten-path locations while traveling.
Here, you will find tips and recommendations for hiking, kayaking, rafting, cycling, and snowboarding. For me, the perfect trip is where I can exercise, explore nature, and connect with the local culture.
This mindset allows me to connect with the locals and fully immerse myself in their culture. Additionally, I prioritize staying active and healthy during my travels.
As a result, I have decided to create a blog combining my love for ecotourism and my passion for fitness. If you enjoy these topics or want to know more, this blog is the right place for you.
Be ready to be the next EcoTourist
Based on my love for sustainable travel practices and ecotourism, I create “living” digital travel guides to help you plan your next eco trip quickly.
Why “living,” you might ask. I review these guides frequently. I add updates based on new information I get or simply by adding new places because I am still traveling. Every time I update my guides, you will receive the updates at no extra cost to you.
My guides are designed for those passionate about ecotourism. They offer extensive information on activities and cultural events. If you’re seeking hotel and restaurant recommendations, this may not be your travel guide.
When I enjoy the accommodation or restaurant I visit during my travels, I will add them to the guides and explain why I like that place.
If you enjoy hiking, cycling, rafting, running, snowboarding, and kayaking, and if you also enjoy connecting with the local culture and being a respectful tourist, you will enjoy my travel guides.
Check my digital travel guides on the link below:
Hi, I’m Deric, but everybody calls me by my nickname Zuka.
One day, I met many students at my University in Brazil. They were always talking about their experiences traveling in Europe, Africa, Asia, the USA, and Australia.
Listening to their talks sparked something in me, a feeling that was telling me that, yes, I should start exploring the world and wander in its mystical and different places.
Slowly, the spark increased, transforming into a big wish. Since then, I have started researching ways to have my first international experience.
Of course, the first thing I had to do was learn English. I already knew how important it is to speak a wide-spoken and international language.
I joined online communities that translate video games from English to Portuguese to improve my English skills. I knew that speaking English would be the first thing I had to learn before starting my journey.
After finishing University, I started checking the IT (I’m a software developer) market in Europe and decided to do interviews with companies based in Berlin, Germany.
At the time, Berlin was booming with startups and tech companies, so I figured it would be the easiest path to leave Brazil.
One day, I told one of my best friends about my plans, and he told me to go with him to Belgrade, Serbia. He sold Serbia so well, saying that I would love the food, the people, and the culture there. It was interesting to hear his conversation, so I started thinking about this small country I knew nothing about.
So yeah, somehow, my instincts told me to go to Serbia after that conversation.
So I did.
After arriving in that amazing country, I quickly felt the warmth of the Serbian people, so I decided to stay for a few months.
Well, life is funny sometimes, isn’t it? Initially, I planned to stay there for six months; in the end, I stayed there for nine years!!!
Since I started living in Serbia, a full traveler mode has entered my life, and I have explored almost 40+ countries since then!!
During these years, my friends always told me I should start a blog, but I didn’t listen. I thought it was a saturated market and that many people were already doing that.
However, one day, after several people texted me asking for travel tips and advice on some destinations they saw me go to on Instagram, something clicked in my head.
Again, my instincts were talking to me.
This time, the message was to start a travel blog where I would write tips and advise people, a place where I would write about my favorite way of traveling, ecotourism.
Since that day, I have been starting my blogging career, and I won’t stop anytime soon. I love crafting stories and writing about the places I have visited, and most importantly, writing about these intense adventures that show up in front of me gives me joy.
HelpMeZuka was inspired by my friends’ constant requests for help planning trips, and now I hope this blog will help and inspire you as well.
Enjoy all the info available here. I’ve recently been living a digital nomad life in South America and writing about all the things I believe are important to share.
If you like ecotourism and my content and would like to support my work, consider buying me a coffee so I can continue producing quality content for you.
With all the love of this world, Zuka.
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