Stay with people that ask you to plant a tree & help them preserve their forest
Stay with people that ask you to plant a tree & help them preserve their forest
Stay with people that ask you to plant a tree & help them preserve their forest
Langoni village in the Moshi region of Tanzania is where people encourage tourism to preserve their forests. Travellers coming for trekking in Mt. Killimanjaro do stop to see flora and fauna preserved by locals in Langoni village. These travellers are encouraged to plant a tree and make a positive contribution to the local ecosystem. The homestay hosts offer a warm welcome and the best services with conscious efforts towards creating no negative impact on the environment. They grow their own vegetables and have innovated their own local style water filters to keep plastic waste at the bay.
Guests like to eat our Ladakhi food. They say it is delicious, even when it is prepared by an elderly ama (mother) like me. I always make sure I serve them the cleanest and healthiest food. My husband is a copper artist. When guests leave us, they say ‘Julley’, and hug us. It makes us feel happy.
I became a Mountain Homestay Host in 2018, and I have hosted many travellers since then. Running a homestay has helped me and my family a lot. Not only is the solar set up in our house useful for us, but even travellers prefer to stay in our homestay because of it.
The training we got in astronomy turned out to be a life-changing experience for our village. I felt happy and proud while mapping the position of the planets and sharing the secrets of the universe with the tourists. Tourists told me that even they didn’t know so much about the dark skies!
