Mountain biking adventure, Ethiopia

Planet

PROTECTING ENVIRONMENTAL LITTERING: Just before we set out the trip (and in different occasions later as well) we will give our clients a short briefing about the do's and don'ts of the area. This includes some basic things like to pay special attention not to litter in the environment (garbage in and out principle).

CHOOSING SPECIFIC AREAS: Secondly, camping everywhere is not allowed as there are some camping sites with some facilities (it may be temporary or mobile toilets at a specific area, a place to take shower, to prepare food, etc). But if people are allowed to stay and camp wherever they want, they will be disrespecting some rules and disturbing the area (for example wild life). On this specific trip you cover a lot of the distances with the bike, which is considered as one of the environmental friendliest means of transport. By cycling you’ll also enjoy more the nature.

People

LOCAL ECONOMY: As we seriously care about sustainability and believe in running tourism based on the local community and focus on benefitting the locals.

EMPLOYMENT INCLUSIVITY & DIVERSITY: We also believe that succeeding in sustainable tourism is unthinkable with out the active participation of the local community and to achieve this there has to be fair distribution of jobs among the local people since they usually work with us in different job positions (tour guides, cooks, rangers, porters, etc). So, in the case of the first title which is the local economy, apart from the job that we create for them we also encourage our clients to buy some local products instead of giving them some thing for nothing which encourages begging and secondly we try to do our best to make sure that every one benefits equally and is treated in a fair way with out any discrimination.