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This tour is offered to individual travellers (2-7 people) and based on a program which follows traditional paths and routes and doesn’t require large-scale facilities.
Transportation to and from the respective lodges is provided by local trucks, run by local communities.
We use our local tour leaders who are walking with the customers along the jungle trails to remote villages where they are meeting the inhabitants of small hilltribe villages in the jungle. Afterwards they walk to the top of the mountain and along a mountain ridge where some local villages are located.
We are training these local tour leaders on a regular basis that they are able to conduct this kind of tour and give a briefing to the customers about various aspects.
The local communities running the lodges and local hill tribe houses are getting 1/4 of the profit made, while another part (1/4) is invested in the communities to ensure sustainable development. The money mostly goes to village infrastructure (road, water, electricity, sanitary system), village fund, education fund, villages nursery (kindergarten), tradition culture, religion holding, health care and handicraft promotion.
The electricity as well as the warm water is gained through the solar panels as we decided to provide comfort for western expectations without damaging the environment.
The Lahu and Akha houses have just basic amenities such as mattress, pillow, bed linen, blanket, towel, mosquito net, two western-style toilets and a communal shower and are run also by the local communities of these remote hill tribe villages.
On this tour there are only local restaurants, shops and markets available and at the lodges and houses, the local communities are preparing Thai food for the customers with ingredients from their own production (vegetables, fruits) or purchased locally from the markets.
We are committed to reducing and recycling waste in our offices. Our offices practice double-sided printing, and recycle printer cartridges, whenever possible. Our offices turn off air-conditioning units and PC’s when offices are not staffed. Much of the waste from our offices is naturally recycled (e.g. bottles and paper waste are sold, where they are re-used/ recycled). We are supporting the Green World Foundation in Thailand and will have lecturer from this foundation to conduct seminars in our office for our staff in the near future. We already started selling some environment friendly products (bags, T-shirts) on their behalf and hand over all the money and profit to them.
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