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Ngorongoro Highlands Trek: This trek is organised in cooperation with the members of a local Maasai village at the foot of Mount Makarot. This community benefits from each visitor as they provide guiding services, plus donkeys for carrying equipment where necessary. Specific boma visits are arranged at extra cost.
West Kilimanjaro Extenstion: The Maasai who provide guiding and donkeys are given fair wages for their services. Specific boma visits are arranged at extra cost. The local safari company that will be hosting you rent this land from the village and the price of this trip includes a per person bed night fee which goes directly to the village. It is planned that this tourism initiative will also help with funds for other projects such as a better road and school.
Loliondo extension: The Loliondo project is a sustainable ecotourism partnership between the Maasai community of Oloipiri and a private enterprise. The community conservation area covers almost 200km² of land which forms an intrinsic part of the Serengeti ecosystem. Concession fees and a significant proportion of any client income is given to the Oloipiri Village Community Fund, which is transparently managed and used to finance development projects identified by the elders, such as clean water supply, medical facilities and a school. In addition, the project aims to prevent poaching, charcoal burning and tree felling in the area, as well as promoting the sales of handicrafts made by the Ushanga Women's Group in the village. Loliondo was highly commended in the British Guild of Travel Writers Silver Otter award for Ecotourism in 2000.
Flights are automatically carbon offset through The Travel Forest, which plants 10 indigenous trees on your behalf (currently in northern Tanzania). Whilst the primary motivation for planting the trees is to offset carbon emissions, the project also works as a poverty alleviation and environmental improvement scheme.
Amanda set up this adventure tour operators with her husband in 1998 because she wanted to involve local people in offering authentic travel experiences. She believes in sticking closely with who you want to work with and maintains strong relationships with her staff. As a result, her holidays offer imaginative itineraries with unusual add-ons, thanks to the interesting links with grass roots companies. Amanda is passionate about green travel and has her own travel foundation which promotes sustainability. She and her staff work hard to 'keep it real' so that your holiday leaves you truly inspired.
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