"He who does not travel slowly dies",
writes the Brazilian poet Martha Medeiros, in the text
A Morte Devagar,
long wrongly attributed to the Chilean diplomat Pablo Neruda.
Man has always moved.
In barely fifty thousand years, Homo sapiens has dispersed all over the planet, for trade, pilgrimages, conquests or more or less voluntary migrations.
He explored new territories, crossed mountains and crossed oceans, not knowing what he would find on the other side.
In the twenty-first century, the desire to cross borders is such that the planet Mars could become the flagship tourist destination of the next decade.
That was without counting the stopping blow brought by the Covid-19 pandemic.
“This putting the world on hold confronted us with the idea of limits and the total absence of perspective.
It made the elsewhere even more desirable and showed that travel was a vital need for some ”,
observes Rodolphe Christin,
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