Stay with a local family in the village of Gacharageini in Kenya and learn about the local lifestyle. During your stay, you’ll get to do activities, such as:
-Learning to cook local food and eating together with your host family
-Picking tea and learning the process
-Milking a cow and feeding animals
-Going for a short hike with locals
-Visiting the local library, where most village children and youth spend time
Sustainability
The village experience is especially socially sustainable because the locals benefit directly from the travellers’s stays. The locals are also free to choose themselves what part of their culture they show to the travellers, instead of having a readymade touristic program to follow. Finally, no special tourism infrastructure is built in the village and the food and water consumption is only according to the locals’ needs. To maintain the carrying capacity of the village, only individual travellers can visit the area at once and no groups are accepted.
What’s Included
-Private room in a local home, mosquito nets and bed sheets included
-Home made breakfast, lunch and dinner daily
-Shared toilet and washing facilities
-Activities
What’s Not Included
-Transportation for getting to the village
Trip Itinerary
1st day: Arrival to the village in the afternoon, meeting the english speaking local contact person who introduces you to the host family. Getting familiar with the house and the hosts. Cooking and eating dinner together with the hosts. Depending on the time of arrival, small activites in the village can happen.
2nd day: Breakfast with the host-family, getting familiar with the livelihood of the hosts, for ex. picking tea and learning about the cultivation process. Lunch with the hosts. Afternoon freetime for walking around the village, talking with the hosts and the neigbors. Helping to cook the dinner with the hosts.
3rd day: Breakfast with the hosts, continuing daily farm works, feeding the animals and visitng the local library. Cooking lunch and dinner with the hosts.
4th day: Breakfast with the hosts, last activities and saying goodby before leaving from the village.
Please note that the activities mentioned are not final, and are suspected to change according to the season or the weather.
Program And Price
3 nights / 4 days: 140 eur / adult. Children between 5-15 years old – 50 %, children between 0-4 years old Free.
