{"id":270,"date":"2024-11-22T11:05:36","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T11:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theamayalife.com\/pages\/?p=270"},"modified":"2024-11-22T11:06:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T11:06:12","slug":"what-does-sustainable-travel-really-entail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theamayalife.com\/pages\/2024\/11\/22\/what-does-sustainable-travel-really-entail\/","title":{"rendered":"What does sustainable travel really entail?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before the very first of Amaya\u2019s bricks had been laid, the terraces we now live on and love had long been abandoned. There was a time when our terraces were agricultural farmland, each layer its own distinct swathe cut into the hillside. Farmers\u2019 work had maximised the amount of available arable land, prevented soil erosion and landslides, and kept water wastage to a minimum.<\/p>\n<p>However, a combination of several factors, including migration from rural spaces to the cities left the terraces deserted.\u00a0 Topsoil, subjected to years of continuous intensive crop farming, had been left exposed and in poor health, in stark contrast to the lush pine trees surrounding the site. What had once been a hillside profuse with crops was now a kingdom of weeds, a microbiome unto its own that resisted the forest\u2019s attempts to reclaim it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the very first of Amaya\u2019s bricks had been laid, the terraces we now live on and love had long been abandoned. There was a time when our terraces were&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"post-details.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theamayalife.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theamayalife.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theamayalife.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theamayalife.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theamayalife.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theamayalife.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/www.theamayalife.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theamayalife.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theamayalife.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theamayalife.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theamayalife.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}