Bamba Travel

Self-Guided Adventures
There’s no tour leader to follow around on these adventures, only local guides for each included activity. You will travel independently on a fixed itinerary with prebooked public transportation, activities and accommodation. Take advantage of some free time to go explore at your own pace. Choose to stay overnight in hostels, 3-star, or 4-star hotels.

Small Group Adventure:
These small group adventures include great local guides, all of your transportation, accommodation, and some meals. They give you the chance to move around more easily, step off the beaten path, and immerse yourself in the local culture. You’ll usually share your trip with no more than 12 like-minded travellers, though the average group size is often lower.

Hop-on Hop-off Passes
Travellers looking for a flexible way to travel, with no fixed schedules, can choose from our many open-dated Hop-On Hop-Off Passes all around the world. These passes include all public transportation and handpicked experiences along a set route of your choice with flexible schedules. All you have to do is decide on the route that suits you best, depending on where you want to go and how much time you want to travel!

What measures will be taken?

Our Local Team takes the best measures to ensure the safety of both you and staff members. They are constantly up to date with the latest government recommendations.

Based on that, the following precautions have been implemented on the tours:

• All the facilities including hotels and transportation have been sanitized thoroughly.
• Shared spaces and facilities will be sanitized frequently.
• All workers will have their temperature taken before their working shifts.
• All workers are required to wear face masks.

NOTE: We recommend, as well, that you wear a face mask to protect each other. (Use of face masks might be obligatory in some areas or tours.)  Upon arrival at the hotels or tours, you will have your temperature taken by the staff and your belongings might also be sanitized before entering the hotel.  You will have to keep your distance from other travelers or staff from the hotels or tours.

Bamba for Good is our initiative to give back to the local communities in which we work and travel. It is an essential part of our company culture and core values. bamba proudly supports the following organizations by participating in volunteer programs and donating a percentage of our total profits to the following organizations.

One Tree Planted (Planing Trees) Adventure Travel Conservation Fund (Different projects around the world) Futbol for Kids (Volunteer Projects to give soccer balls to all the kids in the communities and host soccer clinics)

To protect the wildlife in the world Bamba has taken a pledge with World Animal Protection to not sell or promote any venue, activity or show involving elephant riding or any wild animals. Instead, we are pledging to offer activities with a high standard of animal conservation and welfare with responsible viewing of animals in their natural habitat. We are associated with the below:
World Animal Protection
See the Wild
Too Rare to Wear

We are working towards becoming a B Corporation

These are the initiatives that this operator has in place to make your adventure more sustainable:

Sustainability Programs
- Invests a percentage of revenue back into community projects or sustainability projects 
- We host community-building or sustainability projects for tour goers to partake in

Reducing Carbon Emissions
- Offers carbon offsetting solutions to our passengers
- Has a program in place and are working towards becoming fully carbon neutral

Supporting Destinations and Local Communities
- Hires local guides
- Brings our passengers to locally run restaurants & businesses
- We consciously try to reduce over-tourism by taking travellers outside of the main visitor hubs

Reducing Waste
- Does not offer any single use plastic on tour

Animal Welfare
- Does not offer any tours that include elephant riding
- Does not offer any tours that use animals for entertainment
- We avoid places that sell/eat parts of endangered animals on tour

Transportation
- Uses local transportation while on tour

Accommodation
- Tours stay in locally run hotels/accommodations
- Selects accommodation providers that have sustainability programs in place
- Most/all of our suppliers have sustainability programs in place

Company Culture
- Hosts community-building or sustainability projects for staff to partake in
- Educates people about sustainability through our marketing
- We are a paper free company