From batik-making in Ghana to homestays in Kyrgyzstan: your top ethical trips | Ethical holidays

Drafting in Ghana

Mamas InternationalIn Elmina Port, it creates a financial prosperity for local women by handcrafting the handcrafted goods using traditional technologies. We joined them in the Patek workshop, where Mavis Thompson Explain to us how to dip our designs chosen in melted wax, seal the length of creamy cotton. After dyeing the fabric with natural dyes, cover it in boiling water to remove the wax. Since cotton had to be dried in the sun between each stage, we sat on low stools and we saw that other global mammas produces larger and more complex designs. The colored table mockery is accurately reminding the happy day with MAVIS and Mamas.
Helen Jackson

Anti -fighting round in Sicily

Sicken Sicily, and people often believe the godfather. Except the clichies by joining three hours Addiopizzo Walking round in Palermo (32 euros), organized by a local movement to combat local mafia of the same name. They support companies that refuse to pay Petzo – Protection funds that were blackmailed by the mafia. The tour is taking the moving wall of the legitimacy mastopia that depicts the mafia victims and courts, where the stories of those who stood in front of Kousa Nostra were informed. Rest your tiring foot with Plate (FRETTER) and my generations in pizza -free companies.
Selena Dali

A cloud forest adventure in Ecuador

Santa Luka Cloud Forest Reserve It is an environmental project run by society located at the heart of the rainforest in Ecuador. Stand through a fogged forest, swimming under successive waterfalls and meals cooked at home in a comfortable cabin, while joining local researchers while they are on a longitage tracking The Andean bears And assistance in community awareness initiatives. This is a truly sustainable tourism – protecting one of the most threatening ecosystems on the planet while creating a vital income for local families. The QUITO pick -up trucks are available, although the local bus flight via Foothills Andean is an unforgettable way to reach. It is a really unique “holiday” to be breathtaking and really affects. When staying in Ecolodge, visitors can also join long -distance walking and watch birds. The stay begins for two days, one night of $ 190.
Bobby

Chrome farms and organic biological diversity near Bordeaux

On a family vacation to Bordeaux last fall, we noticed that wine makers were increasingly turning into environmentally friendly styles such as bi dynamics and providing horses instead of machines to soil. We went on a real estate tour that was more than just a cup of strange wine. We have informed us of our guide and learned about the benefits of organic agriculture methods and wine making, and on Château de la DauphineWe were invited to explore green vegetables and bees. in Cave de Rosan Aqar, the path of biological diversity in the countryside was directed. We toured the chromium farms on EBIKES, which was appointed in Bordeaux.
Nigel

Comprehensive walking rounds in Edinburgh

In Edinburgh, she was shocked Mercat toursOur stories, your city – a community initiative funded by visitors’ donations. It enables the deprived population to experience five-star tours and historical attractions on the threshold of their doors so that they face a direct history of the history that formed their community-without financial barriers or a stain. This builds a sense of pride and belonging to those excluded, and leads to tourism as a power for good. For me, it is a beautiful example of meaningful travel works and the narration of international stories not only employing the local population but providing unexpected benefits to the local population at risk.
Karon

Stay with the locals in Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan has growth Community Tourism Association Through it, visitors can stay with the locals. We stayed between a clear eve Tatinin said And her family. The small village is located on the old silk roads, surrounded by the red mountains, with the nearby Kökömeren River. Our room is simply provided with a single family, and we shared a bathroom with our guide and our driver. The dining room was the axial point, where the guarantee of Tatinin is that we were well fed on Kyrgyz dishes, including Chuck ChuckFried dough is steeped in honey. We drank coffee in a small cafe, bought the Russian beer from the store, and we felt that we contributed to the village’s life.
Roy Messenger

Hard advice: a hut in the province of Tiron

Because of the problems, the Sperrin Mountains were used to attract a few vacationers, but some of the pioneers worked unabated to bring more adventurous visitors. The best example Kerajan In Tyrone, near Omag, which offers two nights of 340 pounds, or three nights of 360.50 pounds, in houses of different sizesand Including one free breakfast. It is a society owned by society that gave work to about 300 local people. The property is made up of traditional rural houses, and there is a tape and a restaurant that affects the need that is supported by the local population throughout the year. Nature enthusiasts come to their paths and path paths, and stars of stars for their unpopular sky. It is about an hour drive from Derry or Belfast, but a world away from both.
Tom