Route Logbook

Eight days. One thousand three hundred and fifty kilometres. A festival, gorges, raptors, a viaduct, an international headquarters. Scroll down.

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Linked to the Mission Zero presentation and the Sacred Forest vision.

D0
© Le Rêve de l'Aborigène

D0 · 24 → 26 July

Le Rêve de l'Aborigène

Domaine de Soulièvre · Airvault

France · Deux-Sèvres

Xinu and Yaka on the TEKOA IRUA stage. We meet the mission already in motion: chants, conferences, workshops. First team interactions.
D1
© France.fr

D1 · Monday 27 July

Transit Airvault → Lozère

485 km · ~5h

Convoy of vans

Travelling shots, Mik+Maah van dialogue — why are we doing this. The landscape changes, the pace slows down. Scenery passing by, Xinu watching Europe.
D2
© Rémi Flament / Cévennes Gorges du Tarn

D2 · Tuesday 28 July

Tarn Gorges kayaking

La Malène · Trouillas Campsite

France · Lozère

The flow of the living. River, kayak, conversations on the water. First real tensions: money, image, technology, sovereignty.
D3
© photosdanimaux.fr

D3 · Wednesday 29 July

Txana embodied — the birds of prey

Cubières · Grégory Chamming's

France · Mont Lozère

Narrative heart of the film. Xinu tells of Txana — the bird whose song carries wisdom among the Yawanawa — and the Eagle & Condor legend, in the presence of the Cévennes raptors. Cross-learning with Grégory.
D4
© Benoît Colomb / CRT Occitanie

D4 · Thursday 30 July

Point Sublime · 4 generations

Saint-Georges-de-Lévéjac

France · Causse de Sauveterre

Metaphor of the 4 vultures. Intergenerational dinner at the family restaurant. Reflection on the right place in the ecosystem.
D5
© Viaduc de Millau

D5 · Friday 31 July

The bridge — Viaduc de Millau

Millau · then 700 km to Martigny

France → Switzerland

Trip pivot. The viaduct as symbolic passage: two worlds the structure can hold together, provided it respects both shores.
D6
© Dreamstime · Andean Quechua festival

D6 · Saturday 1 August

FIFO — Brassage of the Txana

International Folkloric Festival of Octodure

Switzerland · Martigny

Encounters with other indigenous delegations: Andes, Africa, Asia. The mission expands, the international network is woven.
D7
© Mont Blanc Natural Resort

D7 · Sunday 2 August

Altitude · Eagle and Condor

Chamonix · Valais

Switzerland · Alps

Contrast with the Tarn Gorges. Altitude conversation + spirituality. Symbolic: Eagle of the mountains ↔ Condor of the forests.
D8
© IUCN World Conservation Congress 2025

D8 · Monday 3 August

Closing · IUCN Gland

IUCN Headquarters · World Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nature

Switzerland · Vaud

Sacred Forests recognized as an international actor. Delegation of indigenous peoples from all continents. Discussion on data sovereignty, financing, indigenous governance. Closing ceremony.