Travel · Healthy Living · Longevity
Travel well.
Live long.
Blue Zones, thermal towns, mountain air and sea light: the places where a long life is easy, and the tools to plan yours.
The Vitality Score
Ten questions. One honest number.
Sleep, steps, strength, plants, alcohol, company, purpose, stress, sunlight, nature. Move the sliders and watch the score respond. Nothing leaves your browser.
Fifteen places that add years
Fifteen places that add years.
Some places make a long life easier. Their food, their hills, their light and their people do part of the work for you. These are the fifteen we would travel for.
Blue Zone Destinations
85Italy · Merano and the Dolomites
South Tyrol
Dolomite hikes, apple valleys and the spa culture of Merano
Blue Zone84Italy · Ogliastra and Barbagia
Sardinia
shepherds’ hills, cannonau wine and family tables
84Switzerland · Upper Engadin, Grisons
Engadin
1,800 metres, dry light and lakes that stay cold in August
84Italy · Val d’Orcia and the thermal towns
Tuscany
hot springs, olive oil and cypress roads made for walking
Blue Zone83Japan · East China Sea
Okinawa
hara hachi bu, moai circles and gardens by the sea
Blue Zone83Greece · North Aegean
Ikaria
late nights, long naps and wild mountain herbs
Eight ways to travel for your health
What kind of journey?
A week can change a body if the week is built for it. Eight kinds of journey, from a thermal town in Tuscany to a sleep retreat in the Alps.
Blue Zone Journeys
a week among people who live to a hundred
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Thermal & Spa
mineral springs, thermal towns and the ritual of the bath
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Yoga & Mind Retreats
yoga, breath, meditation and silence in beautiful places
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Hiking & Alpine Air
walking holidays, mountain air and the altitude effect
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Sleep Retreats
circadian resets, dark rooms and the science of rest
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Fasting & Reset
supervised fasting, Ayurvedic cleansing and the art of the smaller plate
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Cold, Heat & Nordic Rituals
sauna, cold water, geothermal pools and the resilience of the north
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Longevity Clinics & Check-ups
preventive diagnostics, VO2max tests and medical longevity programmes
OpenJourneys of the season
Three trips for the next three months.
85Italy · Merano and the Dolomites
South Tyrol
Dolomite hikes, apple valleys and the spa culture of Merano
Blue Zone84Italy · Ogliastra and Barbagia
Sardinia
shepherds’ hills, cannonau wine and family tables
84Switzerland · Upper Engadin, Grisons
Engadin
1,800 metres, dry light and lakes that stay cold in August
Interactive
Measure, plan, compare, breathe.
Seven free tools that run in your browser and send nothing anywhere. Every result becomes a link and a picture you can share.
Ten questions, one number
Vitality Score
Sleep, steps, strength, plants, alcohol, friends, purpose, stress, daylight and breath.
OpenFocus, month, days, pace
Trip Designer
Choose what the trip should do for you, when you can go, how long and how hard.
OpenLight, sleep and meals for three days
Jet Lag Planner
Enter where you fly from and to, and the planner builds a three-day light, sleep and meal schedule before the flight and after landing, based on how the body clock actually shifts.
OpenYour ideal day, hour by hour
Longevity Day
Set your wake time, sleep target, eating window, movement and wind-down, and the tool lays out a day built on the six pillars: light first, food in a window, movement before lunch, dark before bed.
OpenWhere your steps take you
Walk the World
Enter your daily steps and height, and the tool converts a year of walking into kilometres and into a journey between the fifteen destinations on this site.
OpenWhat a health week costs, in fifteen places
Retreat Budget
Choose a destination, the nights, the level of stay, how often you eat out, how many treatments and whether flights are included.
OpenOne minute to change your heart rate
Breathe
A guided breathing circle: four seconds in, seven held, eight out, or the box and coherent patterns.
OpenThe six pillars
Six pillars. One long life.
Longevity is not a supplement. It is six ordinary things done well, most days, for decades. Here is what they are and how to travel with them.
The foundation
Sleep
seven to nine hours, at the same time, in the dark
Walk, lift, climb
Movement
daily steps, weekly strength and a heart that gets out of breath
Plants, fibre, protein, oil
Nourishment
the Mediterranean plate, the 80 percent rule and a table you share
Downshift
Mind & Stress
breath, nature, silence and the daily habit of letting go
The ingredient nobody sells
Connection & Purpose
a circle of friends, a family that stays close and a reason to get up
Sun, air, water, cold, heat
Light & Environment
daylight for the clock, clean air for the lungs, sea and sauna for the rest
Quick poll
What would you travel for first?
One minute
Breathe with the circle.
Four seconds in, seven held, eight out. One minute is enough to change your heart rate. Try it before you scroll on.
Read before you go
From the journal.
Longevity
What the Blue Zones actually have in common
Nourishment
Hara hachi bu: the eighty percent rule from Okinawa
Movement