G Adventures Tours Transforming Lives Through Travel
When you travel with G Adventures tours, you make a difference in local communities. Travel takes on new meaning when you discover how your vacation can transform lives. Along with G Adventures, we’ll create meaningful moments to engage with the communities you visit and show ways that you can help make a difference. On G Adventures’ comfort-driven National Geographic Journeys, your immersion can be as simple as dining with a local and buying souvenirs in artisan cooperatives to support impactful non-profit initiatives, making your vacation a powerful avenue to affect change.
G Adventures Tours – Safari with a Purpose
A two-week Africa safari reveals the treasures of Tanzania and Kenya’s incredible wildlife reserves, but you might be surprised that your most meaningful memories come from local encounters.
In a village situated on the wide plains beneath the Monduli Mountains, a “Massai mam” invites you into her thatched-roof boma to see the invention that has impacted her community: along G Adventures’ non-profit division, Planeterra, the Massai stoves and solar projects bring clean cook stoves into Serengeti villages, virtually eliminating toxic smoke within homes. Meet the local engineers behind this important safety project and learn how it has transformed lives by creating jobs and economic freedom.
The simple act of joining a thrilling game drive through Amboseli National Park and the Ngrogongoro Crater supports sustainable tourism, providing economic assistance for conservationists to continue their critical work in wildlife preservation. Two expert naturalists guide you toward unforgettable sights such as spotting African elephants at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro and throngs of gazelle guided by Maasai herdsmen along the crater floor.
Once you’ve viewed Africa’s magnificent creatures on safari, you’ll develop an even deeper appreciation for Kenya Wildlife Service, which works tirelessly in Lake Nakuru National Park to conserve wildlife. We’ll arrange a meeting with impassioned scientists and researchers at the Seregenti Wildlife Research Centre that will also leave a lasting impression.
G Adventures Tours – Changing Lives in India
Let G Adventures expand your senses to absorb the sights and sounds of northern India. Your adventure wends from imperial cities to rural villages, where the impact of seeing the Taj Majal and the mighty tigers of Ranthambore National Park is rivaled by one on one experiences that will stay with you forever.
See Delhi in a way most will never experience it – with local guides from the Delhi Streetkids projects. Thanks to a rewarding partnership between Planterra and India’s grassroots Salaam Baalak Trust, insight from teen guides provides an authentic perspective. Your walking tour through Delhi’s historic sites and jumbled bazaars helps support the critical programs that provide much needed food, shelter and education for local youth.
Skim the Ganges River on a sunrise boat cruise, revealing Varanasi’s morning bathers and Hindu pilgrims washing away their skins in its holy waters. A breakfast Open Hand follows, where you’ll hear about this cafe’s role in providing jobs, vocational training and safe housing to India’s poor.
G Adventures Tours – Natural Encounters in Costa Rica
Widely renowned for nature-filled adventures, an immersive journey through Costa Rica’s jungles, hot springs and costs is rife with inside access – both off the beaten path and into local communities and natural habitats.
Your morning cup of coffee suddenly becomes more meaningful after a visit to the Mi Cafecito coffee cooperative in San Miguel de Sarapiqui, a lush and shady growing region. Each rich sip aids more than 200 farmers who assist in processes from harvesting to roasting beans.
The Monteverde Institute is well known to National Geographic – countless explorers have made this research center in the cloud forest their base. G Adventures will help you take part in planting native trees or nurturing them in the onsite nursery, then hike amidst one example of successful reforestation in the Santa Elena Cloud Forest.
G Adventures Into New Horizons
The goal of G Adventures “50 in 5 program is to establish 50 new community development projects in the next five years, creating even more opportunities for travelers to positively impact lives. Take a closer look at these recently launched community programs, created specifically to empower local women in Morocco, Australia and Belize.
Imagine standing atop wind-whipped dunes in North Africa and navigating a maze of berber rugs in the souks of Marrakech. On a Morocco tour, you’ll even reach a rural group of women who are joyous teachers of Arabic and talented cooks of local fare, benefitting both the women who receive health care and education programs in return. In Queensland, you will immerse yourself in Aboriginal communities transformed by economic opportunity for women. In Belize, combine firsthand cultural immersion with beaches of unmatched beauty: the resort is a remarkable understanding of the country. From mystical Mayan ruins to a pottery cooperative where their ancestors have evolved into artisans, your visit to the southern reaches of this country provides sustainable income to support families and creates employment through steady tourism.
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