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Environment
This small group trip aims to encourage you to discover and ultimately help preserve the cultural heritage of the Maldives by getting away from the large resorts. For centuries the only form of transport through these spectacular islands was a ‘Dhoni’ and this trip allows you to experience uninhabited island, snorkel among crystal coral reefs and visit idyllic island fishing villages missed by many as you travel on our specially equipped and traditionally designed dhoni.
Our Responsible Travel Guidebook
Our philosophy since 1975 has been to leave only footprints and take only photographs. To reiterate this, every customer who travels with us receives a copy of our award-winning Responsible Travel guidebook. This detailed book outlines our environmentally sustainable principles, and outlines how each customer can minimize their impact while travelling.
Global Warming and Carbon Balancing
The root cause of Global Warming is society's dependence on emission creating fossil fuel. Planting trees is not going to reverse this trend or cancel our carbon emissions very quickly or effectively. We believe the way to reduce these dependencies is to create clean energy production. Therefore, we support renewable energy projects like wind and solar power, and we are aligned with Climate Friendly, the gold standard setter in effective, meaningful action addressing climate change. So, while we believe that tree planting can play a small role in greenhouse gas abatement, we have gone the extra mile in promoting a longer term solution. Is this cheap? No. Is it responsible? Absolutely.
Community
With the help of our locally employed guides we endeavour to create the necessary circumstances to ensure we have a positive effect on the communities who welcome us when we moor in the evenings.
No local payments policy
Local cash payments are becoming increasingly popular with many operators in the adventure travel industry. This policy seems to benefit the tour operators more than the local economies or the travellers, as it avoids local taxes and transfers the costs and risks of cash handling onto the travellers. In accordance with our Responsible Travel practices, we have chosen a policy of not asking for such payments.
This tour operator was set up in 1975 by two university students. Excited by their own trekking adventures in Nepal, they started organising group trips to the Himalayas for people who wanted to see real culture and wilderness and didn’t mind getting a bit dirty. They believed that adventure travel means exploring the unknown and the company’s philosophy remains as such today. These good-quality trips don’t leave anything out, they provide full camping equipment, decent staff wages and a local team of guides that can help break down barriers and offer authentic experiences that lie far beyond well-trodden travel trails.
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