Way back in 2007 I went on an amazing walking holiday in the foothills of the Himalayas with what was then a very new eco-tourist group called Village Ways. The project had been started to provide work for the the people of the Binsar Wildlife Sanctuary: they built guest houses …
eco tourism
‘FreeFrom’ in the Himalayas wins ‘Best for the local award economies’
Way back in 2007 I spent a wonderful two weeks walking in the foothills of the Himalayas courtesy of the then quite new Village Ways eco-holiday group - an initiative which enables remote villages to become self-sustaining by entertaining visitors who want to walk in their hills. …
Social innovation – the Cypriot way
Hill villages the world over are under threat. Subsistence farming is hard, other work non -existent and the temptation to move to the cities in search of an easier way of life almost irresistible. Be it in on the Scottish fells, in the foothills of the Himalyas or on the slopes …