Cape Verde cultural vacation

Planet

CARBON REDUCTION

We limit amount internal flights and chose the option to travel mostly by ferry or land travel. Only for the Islands not easily accessible by ferry, can we suggest a local flight.

The food on the programme is are smaller local restaurants to which the food is local sourced from products coming from the nearby local markets. At the chosen local restaurants it is possible to adjust meals to simple vegetarian meals.

We advise on carbon reduction and reducing impacts to travelers always before the programme starts through the pre-trip information.

ENVIRONMENT AND WILDLIFE

On this program we strive to preserve and protect delicate routes and natural habitats in order to not enhance mass-tourism in remote areas and minimise the effects of our presence in such areas. We therefore choose routes for the program that are specific for Tourism and walking and avoid exploring remote areas to protect and conserve remote areas.

- We inform client about lack of water on Cape Verde and water use prior to starting the program to minimize overuse of water. This is also seen written on the programs and therefor ask travelers to minimize the use of water. Reducing water usage helps keep water use sustainable which is much needed on small Islands. In general at the family guesthouses wastewater leftover water from the kitchen, cleaning, laundry is reused for use in the garden for crops etc.

- Our choice goes to Small guesthouses or Ecolodges which need less space and less cutting of trees to make space for big hotels example. Also smallguesthouses are more open to proper care of food waste and are more aware of their footprint.

- Travelers receive a pre-trip information with responsible highlights that includes on reducing impacts on nature, especifically in regards to the impacts of the walking routes and the importance of that.

People

LOCAL ECONOMY

The accommodations selected of the programme are locally owned and run by staff for the villages or towns around.

On the programme the emphasis is to stay at these smaller owned guesthouses inside more remote areas to also highlight fishermen's villages and farming villages on route.

On the programme we mainly focus to highlight smaller towns and villages and smaller guesthouses, we work together with the local guides of the areas.

Clients stay at guesthouses en route, staying at small
guesthouses benefits the community welfare by protecting natural space and resources. Small guesthouses need less space and less cutting of trees to make space for big hotels example.

On this programme there will be also an engangement dialogue and interaction session with local female farmers on the subject of women empowerment and highlighting females in agriculture on the routes.

EMPLOYMENT, INCLUSIVITY AND DIVERSITY

We believe in the human rights protection of local people, in specific the protection of young females being exposed. We give a voice to this through the women´s empowerment program. To be able to do our programs of empowerment part of the money earned from the trip goes to such a program so these programs are given at our cost for free.


We only work and support local guides that are from the actual islands and have both local knowledge and nature knowledge of these areas. We furthermore support the local guides from within the actual smaller communities and follow fair standards above the minimum.

We nurture a diverse strategy regardless of gender, nationality or orientation.