Impact
Travelling here without wearing it out.
Tourism arrived here recently and fast. This is how we try to be a useful part of it.
We would rather say less and mean it. These are commitments, not achievements. We have not measured most of them properly yet.
No percentages, no carbon figures. When we have measured something we will publish it and say how. Until then an invented statistic would be worse than silence.
Electric where it genuinely works
We run electric vehicles on city routes and shorter intercity legs, where charging exists and the range maths holds. We do not put an EV on a Tawang run to look good in a brochure, and we will tell you which one your trip should use.
Money that stays in the valley
We favour family-run guesthouses, village homestays, and local guides over chains, and we pay them directly. On village nights the household is paid for the room and the food, not a commission on a booking made somewhere else.
Fewer places, longer stays
Most of our itineraries cover less ground than a comparable trip elsewhere. Long driving days burn fuel, exhaust travellers, and push money towards highways rather than the places you came to see.
Asking before photographing
Festivals here are observances, not performances. Our drivers and guides brief travellers on when to ask, when to put the camera away, and where visitors are simply not expected to go.
Carrying out what we carry in
Vehicles go out with drinking water in refillable bottles and come back with whatever waste the day produced. Several of the places these itineraries visit have no waste collection at all.
Honest about the limits
Road travel in the Northeast has a real footprint and a private vehicle has a larger one than a shared bus. We are not going to describe that as carbon neutral. What we can do is plan tighter routes, fill vehicles properly, and use electric where it fits.
The honest part
A private vehicle has a footprint
- Shorter routes with fewer transfer days, because the driving itself is most of the cost.
- Vehicles filled properly rather than running half empty across a group.
- Electric on the legs where charging genuinely exists.
- Saying no to itineraries that are mostly time in a car.
Hold us to this
If something here does not match your trip, tell us. That is more useful than a review, and the only way any of it stays true.