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Community
By running tours in non tourist areas we are supporting these places and giving them income from tourists.
We employ only local guides, when they do not have a tour we provide accommodation and food for them.
In Mae Sot we visit the border market where our customers can buy handicrafts and locally made souvenirs.
We donate money to the Burmese refugee camps in Tak province, and at our Guest House in Bangkok we collect left over clothes from our travellers, which we donate to the Karen village. We also have a donation box.
Our guides are taught environmental awareness and make sure all trash is collected from our campsites and stops through out the jungle. We stay with a local family in Mae Sot and in Umphang, in both places the house and huts are locally owned. The families are living in very basic conditions, so when customers arrive there they will live basically as well. There are signs on how to follow the house rules, this could be taking of your shoes before entering the house to pay respect to the Thai culture. It is also mentioned that you should feel at home, but act as it is another persons home.
Environment
In the Karen village we pay a monthly fee to rent a house where the customers stay during the night. These money goes to the local family. The customers are encouraged to buy local goods in the village, but we do not force them to buy anything.
If the elephants are not used for riding, they will be working in the jungle to carry logs. There are more than 20 elephants in the village so they will have a rotation system for riding the elephants. Every elephant has their own mahout.
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!
