Kenya and Tanzania bespoke holiday

Planet

During this tour you will make a difference to the environment. We spend loads of time to carefully craft our holidays to make sure that every aspect of your tour does not have negative impact on environment. We are recommending accommodations that focus on sustainability. Most hotels use cooking ingredients from local areas and some even grow their own garden. Most of employees of the hotel are from local areas. This factors decreases negative impact on environment as the fuel consumption is low.
Moreover, we ensure that safaris that are included in this tour are natural and animals free and human are not interfering with them. The reserves and national parks that are included in this holidays: Lake Nakuru National Park, Masai Mara Game Reserve, Serengeti National Game Reserve, Ngorongoro Conservancy, Amboseli National Park. Fees for game drives help to maintain the parks but also protect animals from poaching.

Lake Naivasha Sopa Resort: With Sopa’s traditional and conscientious care for the environment, they are carefully positioned all the buildings on our property so they did not have to fell any of the many trees there. As a result of this, they had to come up with a radically innovative and artistic design for the main public area building which now snakes its way between the trees with long and graceful curves.

* Fairmont Mara Safari Club: Providing the local community with clean water for drinking using sachet purification method.
All cooking gas comes from biogas digester.
10% of guest room revenue goes to local charity supported by Fairmont Mara Safari Club.
Every week the sustainability teams clean up the Mara river from plastics.
Fairmont Mara Lodge is sustainably certify.
There is no doubt that you will have the 'feel good' factor about your impact on environment.

People

Communities are always important part when we put our holidays together. First of all, out guides and drivers are local and their salaries are benefiting their families and local and traditional activates by educating our visitors about local culture.
Tourists in Masai Mara can see cultural dance, music and traditional practices. They can also buy local handicrafts. This practices can generate income for many local small businesses and moreover, tribal culture can be preserved.

Our guides are careful to advise against the purchasing of endangered local hardwoods and animal materials.

In many occasions of the tour people can make donations to various local projects. Our guides have list of places that we support.

This practices create both temporary and permanent jobs for the local community.

Some of the lodges that are mentioned in this tour are also supporting education for local villages. Giving back to communities is very strong on our portfolio.
Lake Nivasha Sopa Lodge: Sopa Lodges: achieving a Silver Eco-Rating, bringing the total to four properties with this level of certification.
Ecotourism Kenya, defines Ecotourism as ‘the involvement of tourists in environmental conservation activities directly linked to addressing human development needs, and promotes equitable sharing of benefits accrued from tourism with local communities while supporting their nature conservation values’. Their vision is to bring together conservation, communities and tourism in a responsible manner and the principles governing ecotourism include:
-Encourage travel to natural areas
-Minimize impact of tourism activities on natural attractions
-Recognize and build awareness about local conservation values and their importance to society
-Provide direct benefits and empowerment for local people at destinations without retrogression on environmental, cultural or local living standards.
-Respect local people, their customs and culture
-Support sustainable development of local economies through direct involvement and participatory decision-making
Ecotourism Kenya conducted an on-site eco-rating assessment audit of the resort, for the purpose of certifying the tourist accommodation facility’s compliance to ecotourism principles and best practices. Sopa Lodges continue to support and develop the local community and strive to ensure carbon footprint is kept at a minimum.