We’re Merging to Bring You More Vegan Adventures

We’re thrilled to share some exciting news: Escape To and Veg Jaunts and Journeys, two beloved vegan travel companies, are coming together to form one united travel company — Ahimsa Travel Club. Founded by Prachi Jain and Kim Giovacco, both of whom have passionately pioneered the vegan travel tour movement in recent years, this merger marks the beginning of a powerful new chapter in compassionate, sustainable travel.

At the heart of this merger is a shared mission: to create kinder, more conscious travel experiences that align with our ethical values. By combining our strengths, expertise, and vision, Ahimsa Travel Club will expand its tour offerings across more destinations worldwide. We’re excited to provide our guests with an even greater variety of immersive, plant-based experiences. From culture-rich city immersions to nature-filled adventures the vegan group tours are all designed to uplift local communities, advance animal rights and advocacy, protect the planet, and promote a compassionate way of life.

We believe that travel has the power to change hearts, inspire action, and grow movements. That’s why we’re committed not just to growing as a company, but to growing the vegan travel movement itself. Together, Prachi and Kim are dedicated to continuing their work as leaders in the space, curating thoughtfully planned, all-vegan group tours that embody the principles of ahimsa: nonviolence, compassion, and sustainability.

With Ahimsa Travel Club, you can expect the same attention to detail, high-quality itineraries, and vibrant community that you've come to love from both of us now with even more destinations, diverse experiences, and deeper impact. We can’t wait to show you what’s ahead and to welcome both new and returning travelers into our global vegan travel family.

Prachi + Kim

Ahimsa Travel Club

Introducing Ahimsa Nature Retreats

In a time of ecological crisis and collective uncertainty, many of us are asking: How can I live in deeper alignment with the Earth? How can I respond with clarity, and care?

This is why we’ve created Ahimsa Nature Retreats: nature-based retreats that will allow us to guide you through outdoor and wild spaces around the world. These retreats are not a break from the world…they are a way to reenter it more whole, more grounded, and more empowered by healing our relationship to the Earth. These 4-7 day retreats will be held across the world with the Ahimsa team and community.

The inspiration began in Vermont, where our recent retreat brought together a group of tender-hearted seekers, farmers, and teachers to live in rhythm with the land. We practiced outdoor skills and meditation, ate fresh food grown on-site, walked mindfully through forest trails, and listened deeply to the wind, to each other, and to the voice of the Earth beneath our feet.

What we discovered there is what we now offer to you:

Ahimsa Nature Retreats are spaces of ecological awakening —
where climate action begins with presence,
where resilience is built through hands-on earth skills,
and where land regeneration starts by feeling more comfortable in wild spaces.

Each retreat is shaped by the unique ecology and culture of place, but you can expect:

• Direct engagement with nature — from forest foraging to organic gardening, herbalism, and natural building

• Teachings in spiritual ecology — exploring how ancient wisdom and modern sustainability meet

• Daily rituals of reconnection — meditation, movement, storytelling, and ceremony

• Conversations on climate and compassion — led by activists, indigenous voices, and local land stewards

• Plant-based meals — mostly made up of ingredients fresh from the local garden, farm or forest

We are designing these retreats as an embodied response to the times we’re living in. A way to remember our belonging to the Earth, and to restore the sacred contract between people and planet.

Once I got back from the Vermont retreat, we couldn’t help but listen to indigenous artists like Snow Raven from Siberia who talks about the human to animal connection. We’ve spent the last 3 weeks understanding how First People have been able to sustain themselves for thousands of years in a relationship rooted in harmony with the Earth rather than destruction, and we’re just getting started.

If you’ve been yearning for grounded community, purposeful Earth action, and a slower way of traveling — you are welcome to join Ahimsa Nature Retreats.

Ahimsa Nature Retreats are sacred returns to the land, rooted in the principles of nonviolence. We are so excited to be able to enjoy the planet’s greatest treasures-the soil, the trees, the clouds and the stars together with you.

Upcoming retreat dates will be posted on our newsletter that you can subscribe to below.

Prachi
Founder, Ahimsa Travel Club

Reflections on our Vermont Retreat

There’s a certain kind of quiet you can only find when you're surrounded by tall trees, wildflowers, and people who are open to simply connecting with each other. That’s what we experienced during A Vegan Adventure in Vermont this July.

We gathered together on land that seemed to breathe with us. As we recreate it with our memory, it was soft, green, and alive with birdsong and breeze. Mornings began with gentle yoga in the barn and afternoon meditations in a wooden gazebo that overlooked a vast stretch of open field and forest. As we sat together in stillness, the noise of everyday life softened. The mind settled. And the heart, so often guarded, began to open. There was something about sky meadow in that open-air space that invited a fuller presence. A deeper exhale.

The days unfolded slowly, with nowhere to be but here. Our time was unhurried: walking through the garden paths, listening to the rhythm of the rain, lounging on weathered benches while the farm cat (Shadow) stretched into sunlight. Even the meals felt sacred colorful, lovingly prepared vegan dishes sourced straight from the land by Chef Justine. Each bite was a reminder of how simple and profound nourishment can be.

One of my favorite moments came at night. We circled around a fire inside a rustic wood-and-canvas yurt, the glow from the flames flickering on smiling faces. People shared stories, some light and funny, others tender and true. Something about the fire draws it out of you…the truth, the memory, the ache, the laughter. It felt like family. Like remembering what community can feel like when it’s rooted in presence. We heard wolves at a distance, howling at the moon or maybe hunting. Their howls were primal and sacred, slightly unnerving and also awe-inspiring.

The staff, too, carried a grounded ease. We could feel that they lived in rhythm with the land. Their relaxed energy became contagious—it gave the whole retreat and us, a sense of exhale.

As we said goodbye, there was a shared softness in the air. Not the high of a weekend escape, but the quiet peace of having been restored. Of having remembered something essential….our love and longing for nature.

I’m so grateful to everyone who joined us, and to the land that held us. May the stillness we touched continue to echo through our lives in subtle, beautiful ways.

Until next time,
Prachi
Ahimsa Travel Club