Hello, welcome to my travel blog! Here’s what you need to know about Sara Goes Local.
Let’s start with some general information about me before we get into Sara Goes Local. I’m a 25-year-old Belgian girl with Bachelor’s degrees in tourism and development aid. I grew up in a small village near Bruges, Belgium.
For the past couple of months I’ve been working towards my dream to see as much of the world as possible. It all started in 2017 when I participated in an exchange program at a Chinese university. I then lived abroad multiple times, for example 6 months in Peru, 5 months in Mexico and 3 months in South Africa. Lastly, I worked as a tour leader in Finnish Lapland. I plan on living life as a digital nomad, going truly local whilst creating travel content.
My vision
I am on a journey around the world and I capture this on video. What I love most about travel is intercultural contact. I love experiencing traditions with locals and feature this in my videos. I am interested in diving and sustainability is a topic close to my heart. Sustainability will be addressed, for example, by visiting communities where tourism is used as a lever for development. I want to look for special animal species, either by diving or by going on a trek and inform people about them. This way I hope that people are more committed to the conservation of nature. I include this subtly in the videos and don’t force it constantly. By sharing the differences and similarities between cultures from all over the world, I hope to generate understanding and combat racism.
What the future brings
I have converted the knowledge gained in the field into online travel guides, templates for budgets at the destinations, and tourist maps with places of interest visualized on them. I sell these through my own website and web shop. Ultimately, I want to organize group trips in collaboration with a local agent at the destination. If the customer wants it, they can also request personal travel advice in an online video call.
I use the acquired skills as an online freelancer to do the following work: photography, videography, writing, social media management, translation, audio transcription, proof reading, design of websites and shops, …
Join me on my journey around the world through my blog, my YouTube videos or over on my Instagram and TikTok. Feel free to reach out to me with any comments or questions!
Love,
Sara
“I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.”