Egypt solar eclipse tour, 2027

Planet

ENVIRONMENT
Our partners in Egypt have a long history of identifying and working to provide sustainable initiatives and are committed to sustainable employment.
They select programs that conform to sustainability in tourism to ensure our commitment of Travelife certification; and simultaneously support the community to elevate the standard of living. Such programs aim to help marginalized underprivileged people, like the garbage collectors, to become an important productive unit in their community by showcasing their self-made products in specially arranged outlets for sale. We invite customers to visit these places and buy some products as part of their tour. They appreciate the efforts and the high quality outcomes and usually like to help with donation.
We are a leader in environmental stewardship by adopting sustainable practices with our clients, such as: Encouraging walking tours and felucca rides. Offering hotels and resorts that follow sustainability programs. Omitting places and souvenir shops who commit animal cruelty acts from our tours. Promoting authentic places, like the Nubian Village and Hiessa, that consider the green environment by preventing pollution and reducing waste. Donate leftover food, after groups’ dinner parties, to donors’ organizations like the Foodbank. Encourage Incentive groups to donate used garments and old kids’ toys to charity.

We use the Kempinski group who are committed to play their part in leaving the planet and society better than they found them, becoming a leader that inspires greater action through consistency, transparency and innovation. They use modern technology to track all energy use, partnering with specialists who can guide them to be more energy efficient to help mitigate climate risk, to benefit our guests, team members and the local communities.
We support the Makhad trust whose focus has been on assisting the Bedouin people of Sinai with access to water. Due to drought, changing climate, and increased use of water from the underground aquifers, the water table has dropped throughout the region, and wells have gone dry. This is the most serious problem for any population to deal with. Every well has a ‘guardian’ family or community, but the deteriorating economic situation amongst the Bedouin people made it impossible for them to buy the resources to deepen their wells. Since 2007 The Makhad Trust has been raising funds to assist well guardians in the restoration of their wells. Since then, 540 wells have been restored giving over 43,000 people access to water for drinking and water to grow food and crops. As the Bedouin say ” Water is Life – Without Water We are Nothing”

People

COMMUNITY
“Leaving no One Behind”, Egypt was successful in cutting poverty which has been rising for almost 20 years with the help of better targeted social protection programs. Our agents participate in a fund raising project to design manufacturing machines and operational materials including manpower training to support the Recycling Machine Production Unit. The objectives of this project are to provide training and employment for marginalized youth from the garbage collecting community, and to manage the manufacturing of solid waste through environmental friendly recycling process. They are able to produce many domestic products as well as some construction materials such as sheeting, bricks and manhole covers.
The Makhad Trust works to sustain the environment, lifestyle and heritage of the Bedouin tribes in the mountains and deserts of Sinai, Egypt, a region of the world where there is a powerful relationship between the environment and the spirit. In Arabic, the word ‘makhad’ means a meeting place.
They funded the construction of a Bedouin Centre for women and children in St. Katherine. The building was set up with a craft center selling Selema’s bags, a training room providing education for the woman and an office. The success of Selema’s business has inspired other Bedouin entrepreneurs to follow her footsteps and establish similar businesses where Bedouin women make beaded bags at home.

The trust has also instigated other projects to support the Bedouin and to help them to help themselves. These include a Library for women and children to improve literacy, a Beekeeping Training Programme, a Carpentry School, a support Class for orphaned children teaching them to grow indigenous herbs, a Seed Bank, a program of Solar Pump replacements for wells, and the Provision of Drying Racks for orchard fruit.