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We provide community-based tours
to rural villages in Kenya. We offer responsible
tourism alternatives to mass packaged holidays with travel
ethos that co-operate with the local communities to improve
their economy, and protect their local environments. These
tours are also known as community-based homestays or visits.
Our programme enables you to explore the
various fundamentals of culture. This includes language,
food (preparation, storage, tools), songs (dances and music),
agriculture & wildlife, tools/technology, rituals, stories,
traditional medicine (healers, tools), and values. All of
these attributes collectively, form an intricate web, which
gives every community its identity, character, self-respect
and purpose.
The visitors’ accommodation is provided
by the host community in their homes or homesteads. In return
the visitors are required to respect and absorb their culture
as they provide some immediate economic and social benefits
to these communities. Visitors thus experience and learn
firsthand about the host community’s culture and their close
relationship with their environment through farming, forestry
and pastoralism and receive a better understanding of the
principles of community-based ecotourism.
In summary, this programme creates a very unique experience of Kenya which
is famous for ‘big-game safari holidays’. It enlightens the visitors’ perspective
of day to day life in a rural village setting.
Creating
a Difference
As a company committed to the principles of sustainability, we ensure that
the host communities whom we have helped established the Mukuru Conservation
Trust, receive proper economic benefit from the tourism operation. The local
inhabitants are remunerated for their work in the operation. In addition they
are trained in all the different areas related to socially and ecologically
responsible tourism.
Your visit will help encourage the villagers
to support responsible ecotourism as a viable alternative
to sustainability rather than surrendering to the disparaging
practices of commercial farming. Your visit will provide
an important income which will reinforce and promote the
long term conservation of their cultural identity and their
nurturing environment.
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