Argentina vacations, 22 days

Planet

All nature excursions and trekkings are guided by local guides with ecological and/or cultural knowledge trained within the standards of the National Parks of Argentina. Excursions are organized by local Argentinean organizations , which are taking care of the cultural heritage and the environment with ecological awareness. Their commitment is to guide you in a safe way, that you can enjoy fully the beauty of a landscape, the walks, birdwatching and trekkings while nature is taken care of and that visitors are doing the same. The local guides will supply guidelines what to do and what to avoid and are of course also open to learn from their clients. The individual travels are designed and offered by a company of guides who live in Latin America. They have been guiding in Latin America for many years on mountain trekkings, specialised ecotravels and culture travels and have experienced all the aspects of being a responsible host in mother nature. As an example how hotels do take care of the environment, give trainings to their staff and work with social and community responsabilities we can mention the hotel Aldea de la Selva in Iguazu.

People

Local guides are a welcome source to give you all information about nature, culture and customs that you would like to know and it gives them to share their traditiosn and knowledge with the visitors. When you visit National Parks your entrance fee contributes directly to the conservation of this park and/or archaeological site, and maintains employment for local communities and guides as well.

We can propose to make one or two visits to social projects along the itinery depending of interests of the travelers as it is all tailor made. Clients can also come forward with one or more social projects they would like to visit. Before the start of our trip some research will have to be done and contacts to be made in order to make this a success of all parties involved, Your guides speak fluently English & Spanish so there will be no languange barrier between you and the coordinators involved with the project.

All local operators are small and local owners, meaning that the income remains within the country and creates a real economic contribution to its people and country. Accommodations are chosen according to budget, taste and style, when they are locally owned this will have our preference, when this is not the case we will inform the client with further details in case asked for so that a well balanced decision can be made. The accommodations create direct employment for the Argentinean communities. The companies that take care of the transport are locally owned and result in a direct income for the Argentinean people as well.

This operator empowers a womens coffee cooperation and NGO in the Andes of Venezuela. Their vision is to provide solidarity to the entire coffee community in the area, striving to improve the quality of the life of children and families of the coffee communities. With this vacation and all our tailor made travels in Latin America you support local families on your destination of travel and you make it for us possible to support mothers and children in the Andes of Venezuela through this cooperation and NGO. Through their different programs the cooperative aspire to offer training technique in administration, management, accounting, among others and offer scholarships to students and subsidies to primary schools in rural coffee communities, as well as inspire to new forms of community economic organization.