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Although this is mainly a driving tour we continue to support Responsible Tourism through ensuring all local vehicles used for transportation are serviced frequently in addition we fully comply with Government Road Worthy standards. This ensures minimal gas emissions are lost from our vehicles, poorly maintained or malfunctioning vehicles can release as much as 10 times the emissions of a well-maintained vehicle.
The accommodation along this tour is of a very basic standard, as our accommodation partners provide basic facilities, minimal energy is used for the operation of the Guest Houses along with minimizing the use of non-bio degradable products, organic vegetables, fruits and consumables which are sourced from the surrounding communities to benefit the local villages.
With the help of our local Tibetan guide our passengers genuinely gain a firsthand experience and insight as they travel through the different areas with a great benefit from their knowledge on places to eat and stay which best support the local people.
Project for the blind commenced in 1998 in Lhasa with the opening of the first rehabilitation and training centre for the blind in the Tibetan Autonomous Region. We encourage individuals and groups to visit and make contributions both through interaction and financial donations. This centre provides four main services:
- A preparatory school for children from all over the Tibet Autonomous Region, who are first given intensive ‘orientation and mobility’ training and then learn to read and write the Tibetan, Chinese and English Braille scripts.
- Training for teachers in mainstream schools that receive children who have been prepared by the centre.
- A Braille book printing house where schoolbooks are printed in Tibetan Braille, using a computer programme developed by a blind, German mathematician to convert Tibetan script into Tibetan Braille.
- Vocational training courses in areas such as medical massage and physiotherapy, music, animal husbandry, agriculture and handicrafts.
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