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We believe responsible travel is the best way to promote appreciation and respect for the environment, cultural traditions and human values among young people. The family active vacation is designed specifically to give youngsters the experience of encountering ethnic groups with ancient traditions, seeing rare wildlife and pristine environments, and experiencing a self reliant way of life in tune with nature where material possessions are kept at a minimum. For most children, this is an eye opening experience, as they realize that youngsters their own age may have adult responsibilities including herding animals, carrying water, and gathering fuel while Western children have a significant amount of leisure time.
Children on this trip will have access to experiences that they would not get from a standard family vacation, and their appreciation of faraway cultures, nature and the environment, and different ways of life will contribute to forming a new generation of travelers that seeks to ensure their continued survival. Children are encouraged to bring toys or games, used or new, that they can share with nomadic children on their visits to families. Your guide will instruct children on the trip about low-impact travel and help them to relate to a new and different way of life, explaining the customs and traditions of the Mongols. We also source as many of our services from local suppliers as possible, including renting horses, buying produce, meat, and dairy products, hiring local guides, and arranging for special performances or demonstrations of local skills and crafts. By traveling with us you will help support people who keep alive and contribute to the livelihoods of herders and trades people in rural Mongolia.
Because of our committment to responsible travel, all guides on our trips are Mongolians. The guide is after all the person you will spend the most time with on your trip, and we believe it is important that your guide be a local person in order to give you the best possible sense of Mongolian culture, traditions, and customs, as well as first hand knowledge about the environment, wildlife, economics, or whatever your interest may be. We invest a great deal into our guide training program in order to enable our team to function at a professional level that allows us to give staff opportunities for promotion, and our staff is paid well above national average wages.
We invite every traveller who books a holiday via us to send in a review. Because we don't run the holidays they're completely independent and unedited... remember to read between the lines though, as two people on the same holiday can have different views!
