We need your help 🙋🏻‍♀️

As TRAppe. continues to grow we’re starting to rethink the user experience of our platform and how we can make it better for travellers like yourself.

If you’re a traveller who often makes bookings via travel platforms, I’d love
15 minutes of your time to hear your thoughts on how we can improve our platform and make it more usable for you.

You can book a call with me or just hit reply. I read every message ✌🏻

xoxo,
Gabby & The TRAppe. Team

This week’s playlist is a little special. Valur, the founder of Your Friend in Reykjavík, isn’t just running a sustainable tour company in Iceland, he was also a musician in one of the country’s most well-known bands in the late 90s, Buttercup. Press play so you can flex a little Icelandic pop culture knowledge with the locals when you visit Iceland.

🎧 Share your go-to travel playlist or podcast with us. Whether it's road trip anthems or deep-dive travel stories, we want to hear and feature what fuels your adventures.

🥖 Si vous plaît: What better way to experience French food than through its farm stays? Sharing a secret list worth knowing. P.S. We’ve been to Le Doyenné and we love!

🐘 Long trunks: Not sure which elephant sanctuary in Northern Thailand are truly ethical?

🌷Full bloom: April means tulip season in the Netherlands is in full swing. Here’s where the locals go.

💼 For job seekers: Boundless Life is looking for a fully remote Junior Project Manager to join the CEO Office and help drive high-priority initiatives across the business.

Join us at the Global Vegan Hospitality & Tourism Earth Day Conference by Vegan Hospitality on Wednesday 22 April at 10:00 AM EDT.

TRAppe’s founder, Gabby, will be sharing how we can design hospitality in a way that makes better choices feel natural.

📍Salento, Colombia
Website | Instagram | Google Map

Located in the hills of Colombia’s coffee region, Finca Cafetera Don Elías offers an authentic glimpse into the art of traditional, organic coffee production.

This is not a large plantation. It is a working, family-run farm where coffee is grown, processed and prepared using traditional methods passed down through generations. You walk through the land, see how it all works and understand what goes into a single cup, from the soil to the final brew.

Coffee plants grow alongside fruit trees, creating a natural system where the soil is enriched, shade is provided, and biodiversity is maintained. From composting to natural pest control, everything is done with the surrounding ecosystem in mind.

The story began in the 1980s, when Don Elías started working this land at a time when the area was still remote and difficult to access. One day, a traveller passing through asked to visit the farm to learn about coffee. Despite the language barrier, Don Elías welcomed him in and the rest was history.

Now run by the second generation, José and Yamile, the focus remains the same. Coffee is grown organically, processed on site and prepared using artisanal methods that have not been rushed or scaled for convenience.

And at a time when coffee is often mass produced with speed and scale in mind, this offers a rare opportunity to experience a way of producing coffee that continues to care for the land, respect the process and produce coffee the way it was always meant to be done.

*Tours are available in Spanish, French & English

In this week’s What’s Hot & What’s Not, meet Audrey, a traveller born in the Global South and raised in a Western country.

Since Audrey was a kid, she dreamed of traveling but always felt something was off. Today, she shares her journeys through a decolonial and conscious lens. She slow travels alone and often returns to the same places to reconnect with friends and explore each destination more deeply.

🔥 What’s Hot

Traveling with responsibility, recognizing our privileges, slow travel, supporting local economy, locally owned accommodations, get information about history and culture before traveling, respecting the local dress code, local food, including street food, meeting strangers, buses and trains, getting lost.

❄️ What’s Not

Comparing everything with your home country, traveling with a colonial mindset, treating destinations like amusement parks, ignoring local realities, feeling entitled, the idea that the customer is king, abusive behavior toward tourism workers, avoiding local people, assuming everyone will speak your language, getting sick, mosquitos and cockroaches.

Want to get featured too? Drop your details here.

Hook your friends up with Help! I’m TRAppe-d and score a free copy of our Bali e-guide! Just refer 10 people, and the guide is yours ✌🏻

Psst… want to see what all the hype’s about? Flip through the Bali e-guide preview, to get a little taste of what’s inside: 100+ curated stays, eats, and experiences that are kind to the planet and good to its people ✌🏻

Or refer just 1 buddy and gain access to our weekly updated TRAppe Travel Cheat Sheet.