Name: Tesfa Tours: Best in Travel 2021 Community Trekking
Uploaded: 2020-12-15T18:35:39.000Z
Duration: 3 min 23 s
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Once you get to Ethiopia, you find a country unlike anywhere else.

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You know, we overuse the word unique far too much in Ethiopia because you know, the religion, the language, the food, the music.

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A special here in Ethiopia specially is meeting locals seeing their culture.

And also I can say that the naturally the landscape of each of guys difference.

Linta, Spy and I have been working in test factors for almost five years.

I've been living in Ethiopia for more than 20 years now.

It's high altitude, so the temperatures are quite cool in the day.

So it za good walking countryside, wonderful landscapes.

I really wanted to find a way to put that together with something that the communities could run themselves and local people could run on, get the, you know, the benefit from it.

So they have a couple of days seeing the UNESCO sites of somewhere like LaBella.

Then maybe three or four days trekking in the countryside.

Another couple of days seeing the castles in Gonda that that kind of thing.

A slow moving holiday which is much more sustainable.

When you're walking, I mean there's no running water.

Very low carbon, pretty much vegetarian as well, because it just doesn't work to slaughter an animal for a few tourists.

So they just end up having local vegetables cooked with pastor and rice.

We give almost 75% to the communities and that 75% is distributed.

Thio the guide and also to the communities.

In a way, people are very familiar and friendly.

People are happy to accept tourists and all are happy to share cultures.

And also we do have a lot of cultures this make us special.

And then you put that together with people who are, uh, incredibly hospitable.

I mean, I said, when you go to the countryside areas they are wary of strangers on, that's true, but they have this code of hospitality as well.

 Once you're invited in, you're really write it in weddings, funerals, parties, everything they try and bring you in. 