WHY LOGIOS TRAVEL?
In Logios Travel we are travelers
“The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as one of your citizens; you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I the Lord am your God”.
Leviticus 19:34
In Logios Travel we know how it feels when you arrive to a new place: different languages, different ways. It feels awkward and clumsy but also thrilling and exciting: a strange cocktail of mixed emotions.
In our journeys we have appreciated the helping hand and the welcoming face of an unexpected cicerone. The moment when you feel somehow… home.
We also know what a boring, self-indulgent tour is. We have suffered them – like that one particular guide in Pompey –. That is why going beyond what Wikipedia or any travel guide can offer is so important for us. That is why we depart from your experiences and expectations [check out our questionnaire ] .
Because you are the traveler and we aspire to become your personal cicerone in this new adventure.
In Logios Travel we are readers
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”
Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory
We understand culture as a lens through which we see the world. We polish this lens with the books we read.
What makes Logios Travel tours different from other tours? Without a shadow of a doubt, the books we have read. Because the background of every guide will condition the kind of visit they offer. It is not just about their academic training; it is about the books they read.
So remember: your companions –the people, the books- will always determine your adventure.
“And that’s the purpose of this book: to awaken something we’ve forgotten, something we’ve been made to forget by the passing of time and by those who’ve misunderstood or—for reasons of their own—have wanted us to forget. (…)
It seems to be a story about things that happened a long time ago. But really it’s about ourselves”.
Peter Kingsley, In The Dark Places of Wisdom
Logios Travel is not interested in providing information; we aim to provide insight.
Andalusian culture is the result of travelers from all around the globe coming to this land for millennia. They came here looking for something and they left us part of their heritage.
We understand History as collective memory. That we are what we are because of this memory and that to forget it is to give up a part of our being. We believe that aspiring to a better self and a better world is possible and necessary.
