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There’s a Word for How We’re Feeling as Travelers—and This Is It
27.11.2023 - 14:03 / cntraveler.com / Juliet Kinsman
How to Travel Better is a new monthly column with Condé Nast Traveler’s sustainability editor Juliet Kinsman. In this series, Juliet introduces us to the sustainability heroes she meets, signposts the experiences that are enhancing our world, and shares the little and big ways we can all travel better.
Sitting sentry in an open-top truck next to a waterhole in Kenya’s Masai Mara, Charity Cheruiyot passes me her binoculars to steal a closer look at a hippopotamus hiding under the brown water. An occasional flicker of nostrils is our only clue to its whereabouts. Finally, a little wriggle and some ripples reveal a tiny calf there, too. It’s always worth the wait. The same can be said of the anticipation for this long-time-in-the-planning safari escape to one of the most talked-about wilderness reserves in the world.
Fernweh is the German word for those deep pangs for far-off places. As we daydream about our next adventure, it’s a "farsickness" version of homesickness. The fernweh had flowed in the run-up to my stay at andBeyond Bateleur Camp. When I finally visit however, it was far from the only thing on my mind.
I’m here off-season, so I know to expect fewer animals compared to the epic images of the Great Migration, when herds of wildebeest move south from Tanzania’s Serengeti. But it is sobering to learn from experts at the camp that the peak numbers making the 2,000-mile crossing may have dropped by 90 percent since the 1970s. In Kenya, there used to be four wildebeest migrations comprising millions of animals; now, there’s only one movement of maybe a couple of hundred thousand.
Our climate in flux has meant more droughts and more flooding everywhere. Faltering weather and extended dry periods mean animals can no longer live in sync with the seasons. In many parts of East Africa, you can add deforestation—and loss of habitat—from population growth into the mix. It’s getting harder to reconcile a conscience for planetary health with a deepening guilt about gallivanting and a desire to explore more of our world.
Fernweh is the German word for those deep pangs for far-off places. As we daydream about our next adventure, it’s a "farsickness" version of homesickness.
There's a word for that, too. Solastalgia denotes that very sentiment that’s sharply at odds with my wanderlust. Coined in 2003 by the philosopher Glenn Albrecht, it stands for a climate-conscious yearning for a blissful bygone time when we weren’t all worrying about the world’s weather. A portmanteau of the words "solace" and “nostalgia,” it represents a wish not to be weighed down by the woes of humanity’s impact on the environment.
As I exchange my concerns about the changing landscapes with Charity, the region’s first female ranger, it
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