LOCAL PARTNERSHIP – COMMUNITY TOURISM

We Bigfoot Adventure Trekkers (Tours) works in close partnership with local tourism service providers. The hiring of horses, Yaks, and trek assistants and the use of local farm houses and purchase of local food products along the tour and trek routes are direct benefiting local communities right across the country. Bigfoot Adventure Trekkers practices community Tourism wherever feasible. This is our way of ensuring the tourism or eco- tourism makes a positive impact on everyone involved.

Bigfoot Adventure Trekkers offers a choice of camping tours & treks in Bhutan. Managed and operated by a group of young dedicated and experienced people who are not only well versed in the Trekking and adventure travel service but also are committed to conserving our natural and cultural diversity. Our treks, tours and river rafting trips are well equipped, offer optimum safety, provide guides who have first hand knowledge of the routes, natural history and cultural background.

BELIEVE IN QUALITY

TRAINED TREK GUIDE AND COOK

Each of our treks is managed by a team of professionally trained trek guide, cook and Sherpas. Many of our famous mountain guides have climbed Everest and other Himalayan peaks. Our leaders/guides and trek crew are committed to providing a safe and enjoyable holiday to our clients and in an eco-friendly manner.

HIGH QUALITY CAMPING EQUIPMENT

All our camping-treks are outfitted with the highest quality equipment available. Comfortable dome or 'A' frame tents, foam mattress, dinning tent with camp chairs and tables and a toilet tent are standard equipment on all our camping treks.

HYGIENIC FOOD

Meals are prepared by cooks trained in modern cooking hygiene by our Govt. Special care is taken to we serve boiled and purified drinking water everyday on the mountains to ensure that our trekkers stay healthy and enjoy the beauty of Himalayas.

COOKING GAS USE ON TREKKING

In order not to contribute to the already rapid denudation of Himalayan forests we use Gas for cooking. When we use local services like lodges we patronize and encourage those lodges who have adopted ecologically safe methods in use of fuel and waste management - thereby encouraging other lodges to implement similar, or better, methods.

RIGHT PLACE TO DISPOSE WASTE

Our trekking staffs are trained in the correct disposal of waste. All biodegradable waste is burned and buried before breaking camp every morning. Care is taken to fill in toilet holes after use. It is our policy to porter all non-degradable waste (used batteries, tin cans, bottles, plastics, etc.) out of the mountains. All our trip members are well briefed about requirements regarding waste disposal before starting. All paper and dry tissue are collected and burned by our crew. Plastics, tins, foils, batteries and other non- biodegradable items are to be taken back to Thimphu (used batteries cannot be properly disposed in Bhutan hence we encourage that batteries to go back to where they came from to be disposed properly).

TOURISM ROYALTY

Tourism is one of the main source of foreign exchange for Bhutan. The Tourism royalty of USD 65/- or about 35 percent of your tour payment paid to the government of Bhutan. This contribution ensuring the sustainability of Bhutan's public services, including the free education and health care services. Tourism earnings, therefore, benefit the people of Bhutan by improving their quality of life.

“We discourage our visitors to give money, or candy to children in the villages”