A couple - the owners of LandyCampers - hiking in the Picos de Europa

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Meet the Team Behind LandyCampers: Max & Bela
We’re Max and Bela, the duo behind LandyCampers. Whether we’re camping along Spain’s coastline, road-tripping through Yorkshire’s stunning landscapes, or spending a weekend under the stars in the local woods, no vehicle embodies the spirit of adventure like a Land Rover Defender. To us, it’s the ultimate travel companion, perfectly suited for winding country roads and rugged terrains alike.

Our Journey to LandyCampers
Max traded his engineering career to become a surf instructor, while Bela took a break from digital advertising. We met in Morocco in 2017, working together at a surf camp, and soon decided to pursue future adventures together—alongside Max’s 1989 Defender, “Fran.”

After nearly two years traveling the coasts of the UK, France, Spain, Portugal, and Northern Africa as full-time surf instructors, we wanted to share that feeling of road trip freedom. LandyCampers was born from our love of slow, low-impact travel and the joy of exploring close to nature. For us, the Defender represents freedom, durability, and the ideal way to experience the outdoors.

Join Our Adventure
Follow us on Instagram for a look into our journey with LandyCampers, from vehicle transformations to road trip inspiration and all things Defender. We can’t wait to share the adventure with you!

As campers and surfers and with a business in the fast-growing tourism industry, it is our responsibility to help preserve nature and the oceans. More information on our approach and commitment to a sustainable conduct can be found below.

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SUSTAINABILITY

Environment, n., /ɪnˈvaɪrənmənt/, the phenomena of the physical world, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth, as opposed to humans or human creations

The climate emergency demands all of us to act as responsibly as possible – also when planning a holiday. The travel sector is one of the fastest growing economic sectors and accountable for nearly a tenth of all global carbon emissions.

The impact of tourism of any kind on the planet’s climate crisis is more than apparent: air travel, cruise industry and overtourism rises the social and ecological toll of travelling. National Parks are struggling with overflowing toilets, landscapes are clogged with litter and hiking paths in fragile eco systems can’t recover under heavy boots.

This is why we chose sustainability to determine LandyCampers' business conduct – responsible decisions, sustainable products and processes and the vision of enabling our clients to enjoy an eco-friendly and low-impact holiday as a step towards a more ecologically aware lifestyle by all of us. It sometimes just requires some inspiration and planning to try to reconcile your love of exploration with the impact that globe-trotting and can have on the environment. Check out below how we and you can minimise our impact and let’s plan that trip!

SUSTAINABILITY

What we are doing:

Supporting non-flight and low impact holidays

Landycamping is about choosing a holiday destination that enables you to discover what’s closer to home and renounces a long-haul flight – which by far would be the biggest impact on your carbon footprint.

Camping itself is one of the most responsible ways to go on holiday, as carrying your sleeping quarters and all amenities with you is the purest form of a ‘low impact accommodation’ – no mass tourism or large concrete developments that are half empty in low season.

Offsetting LandyCampers' own impact

We work with Ecologi to offset our own carbon emissions from our office's electronics use, to our own journeys, to deliveries we receive. We believe that we should lead by example, and do our best work as 'green' as possible!

To date this has involved the planting of over 2000 trees and offsetting close to 100 tonnes of CO2!

SUSTAINABILITY

What we ask you to do:

Leave nothing but footsteps

Do not, ever, leave any litter behind wherever you are (this also includes food waste, and especially human waste which disrupts wildlife, and is just plain unpleasant!).

Be aware: Disposing of your rubbish can be inconvenient or not available at every campsite and you might have to carry your recyclables with you for a
bit.

Get inspired

Take some ideas home: eco-friendly camping offers a great chance to really get back to basics. Driven by necessity, we make do without a lot of amenities and luxuries that we take for granted at home – suddenly realising we are not really missing anything even though we are living out of the boot of a car being out and about all day. Thus, we hope you might take the chance and take some of the positive emotions, sustainable behaviour and ideas to slow down home so you, your family, and the environment, can draw from your trip for a long time!