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Tourism to Peru has boomed over the past few decades. For this reason there is even greater emphasis for tours to be carried out in a responsible and sustainable manner.
The hotels we use on this trip are all small, independently run guest houses or hotels, staff serving you may well be the owners, and without a doubt all will be employed from the local or regional community. The same goes for the agencies and local operators we use along the way, many who have been with us since we started over 30 years ago; we look forward to seeing and working with them, and they in return provide us with their first class, local knowledge and experience to enhance the enjoyment of our tours.
On this tour we go one step further to interact with the local community by staying on the island of Taquile in Lake Titicaca. We are invited into local homes where rooms are simple and facilities are normally a basic shared bathroom. However, the unique opportunity to interact with the indigenous people from this island, to eat a meal prepared by them from crops grown on the island and to witness how tourism can bring direct benefits to those diversifying their livelihood to supplement their income is a rewarding and unforgettable experience on this tour.
Peru has some of the finest accessible wildlife and jungle lodges of the Amazon, and we choose to stay in one where their commitment to sustainability and research is exemplary. As a member of the Rainforest Alliance the lodge continues to move boundaries in this field through the structure of the cabins, daily practices of the lodge and importantly work in the region and they have also been credited with awards and commendations including being a finalist in Tourism for Tomorrow 2008.
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