ABOUT US
Our aim isn't to consume popular destinations with a voracious and hasty appetite. Instead, it's to capture and share the tiny, minuscule stories that fill the space we occupy in the universe, to walk along narrow paths, and to discover hidden side streets. These paths are far from the bustling crowds; they're narrow, allowing only a single person to pass at a time. And in the end, they may conclude in a dead end. But rather than being saddened, we value the opportunity to sit at the end of that dead-end street, take a break, daydream, and gaze at the infinite sky. We're advocates of not just focusing on benefit and outcome, but also on the process and pleasure.
Let's be clear, our intention isn't to constantly seek out new, hidden, and secluded things, but perhaps to be able to look at the roads we travel every day, and the things we frequently see, with a fresh perspective, and to notice details we haven't noticed before. Again, it's about discovering a place not through the narrative presented or imposed on us, but through its neglected or hidden storytellers and stories. Change the Narrative.
Our tours are adaptive. Therefore, they are suitable to be tailored to the desires and dynamics of each group. If you contact us personally, we can make changes to our tours or create them together according to your interests. In other words, it is possible for us to create a completely personalized tour program according to your interests by actively participating in the decision-making processes of the tour creation process.
Our understanding of guidance and leadership in our tours is a democratic approach that goes beyond the classic, emphasizing participation, collaboration, transparency, originality, community learning, and interactive participation. The goal is not only to see and learn new places but also to establish proper communication, understand each other, hear each other, get to know each other, and become friends.
Because we believe that knowledge and travel are a universal right, we believe that everyone should have equal and fair access to them, and for this reason, we share our knowledge with you as much as possible through such platforms, and in addition, we organize voluntary tours for disadvantaged groups who have difficulty accessing such cultural opportunities due to injustices. We provide this guidance service to experience a story, a journey, and excitement together in a richer way.
OUR GUIDANCE APPROACH AND ROUTES ARE ORGANIZED WITH THE FOLLOWING ETHICAL UNDERSTANDING:
- Exploration and Sharing: Focusing on small stories and narrow paths instead of large and popular destinations. This approach emphasizes more intimate and authentic experiences away from mass tourism.
- Awareness and New Perspectives: The ability to look at even familiar places with new eyes. This reflects the understanding of noticing and valuing details that are overlooked in everyday life.
- Knowledge Sharing and Accessibility: With the belief that knowledge is universal, sharing experiences and knowledge on open platforms. Also, organizing volunteer tours for disadvantaged groups.
- Ethical and Sustainable Tourism: Respect for local cultures, nature, and diversity. Effort to understand and protect the multicultural structure of cosmopolitan cities.
- Ecological Sensitivity: Moving away from a human-centered perspective and embracing a holistic ecosystem understanding that includes all living things.
- Interactive and Democratic Approach: Instead of one-way information transfer, a philosophy of learning and discovering together with participants.
- Pluralistic and Dynamic Perspective: Being open to multiple truths and different perspectives instead of a single truth.
Our aim is to enable the places we visit, the stone, soil, monuments, nature, and people of those places, to reveal and envelop us anew and more deeply with a holistic approach from shoulder and eye level with each other, the story of a photograph that expands and becomes more beautiful, complex, and forked, our story.
Hoping to meet you in stories that will reveal the common good, potential, and life energy of all of us, and in travels that will accompany those stories...
Travel in Narrative
