Uzbekistan vacation, tailor made

Planet

This trip takes you to the places where sometimes you will need to be cautious about the environment. Sometime you will need to walk, hike, and travel using donkeys. Some areas not reachable with means of transportation, so we will need to walk for some kilometers. You will be asked to minimize your influence on the region`s flora and fauna. At guesthouses, you will not provide regular bathtubs to avoid waste of water and energy for heating. Also, you may be asked to reduce the usage of water resources by using towels and bath towels more than once, to keep out of laundry. At Yurts, you may not have air-conditioning or only common premises such as the dining room only can have a cooling system.
Wherever possible, we will choose operators, guesthouses and suppliers who use renewable or clean energy. In the cities of Uzbekistan, this is almost impossible but wherever possible we can and do choose places to stay that use solar thermal water heating systems. For example, in some of the mountain villages, in the guesthouses people use solar panels on top of their houses that benefits from the long sunny days. This helps them to heat water even if they have water heating system.
When staying with local people, we try to ensure that local foods are cooked using local produce that is in season. Whilst this may be difficult in some places we visit due to geographical location and resource scarcity, it is the way our immersive travel methodology is defined – stay local, eat local, experience local.
All of our suppliers work with us to ensure that groups avoid negatively affecting the local environments through which they pass. Waste is removed and wildlife is respected. Water courses are not polluted by human waste.

Water:

We encourage frugal use of fresh water and discourage the spoiling of water sources by any means. We provide water filtration bottles to all customers as part of their package and encourage them to be used as alternatives to bottled water. Our use of filtration water bottles permits the reduction of our single-use plastic footprint. Where filtered water is necessary, we will purchase only in bulk containers and request that wherever it is available, our local partners supply filtered water in the same way. We do not accept the cliche that freshwater can only be supplied in tightly-sealed personal 1-liter bottles and loathe how wasteful this practice is.

People

During this journey you will have a chance to be very close to people who live and work at rural areas. Also, witness their thrive making their effort on changing their lives influencing the change of the lives of others. It is great to feel the mood and the atmosphere of people, who have not been yet spoiled or got used to tourists. Enjoy untouched, unreached by tourist destinations, helping them to make their lives economically developed. We visit some places which were founded and funded by international Non-profit organizations in the beginning and see how they are getting on nowadays. Observe their past and present. Transformation of the villages, rural districts into something bigger community, how they live and try their contribution to culture, tradition, and mentality. They preserve primal crafts and customs, handling their knowledge on lifestyle from generation to generation. Meet local people exchange glances and attitudes, learn and teach. Become a part of a community; take a look at the circumstance and condition from their angle.

We always employ local guides to accompany groups visiting local communities. Wherever possible, we will work with people from a local community to ensure that maximum economic benefit is retained in that community, and that our guests derive the maximum understanding of each community visited. IN this case, our local escort guides are supplemented in each of the main cities by a local guide with specialist knowledge.

We use local guides to ensure specialist skills and knowledge are retained in the local community and to be certain that tourism income is kept as circular as possible within the local economy. We stay as often as possible - or visit and meet - with local people to encourage cultural exchange, to give our guests the best possible cultural experience and to ensure that economic benefits are retained locally. Also, the reason why we hire a local guide in each city is that he/she knows the region best than others. He knows best places to show the foreigners where they can feel local atmosphere visiting the houses of local for cooking master-classes or the house of the craftsmen where the master demonstrates skills of making ceramics or other staff as well the women of this house show some skill of embroidery. Of course, it is great potential for them to make a profit through their hardwork.


Visiting such families can help support them so that one can carry on these traditions.

All of our trips and tours are immersive – they are designed to be of net benefit to each community that we visit. In this way, we not only always employ local guides, drivers and suppliers but often work with local providers to ensure that services provided are utilizing local resources as far as is possible.