Second Episode Kenya – 2008

The trip starts in Laikipia where the protagonists will visit the Il Ngwesi Community Lodge the mother of community based tourism in Kenya. Moving to the south they will stop in the Amboseli Area at the Maasai Centre for Field Studies where they will have a field class to understand more about ecotourism. On the coast they will stop at the Turtle Bay Beach Club in Watamu where they will discover some of the community and conservation projects supported by the hotel...they will experience a real turtle release with the famous "Turtle Man” and they will visit the Kipepeo Butterfly Community Project. They will finally go back to Nairobi by train, the Mombasa Nairobi train a trip into East Africa history. In Nairobi they will help the Maibaba Squad group to shoot their first music video.The episode will end with a visit to the magical world of Nani Croze: Kitengela Glass...

Episode produced in partnership with Ecotourism Kenya. Released in occasion of the WTM World Responsible Tourism Day 2008

First Episode Burundi - 2007

Burundi is a country where civil war has just ended. A fantastic place where mass tourism has never existed. In the capital city Bujumbura, they meet Alfredo, an engineer that decided to invest in ecotourism many years ago, before the war broke out. Alfredo's hotel is the starting point of their travel to discover some of the most untouched areas of Africa: Lake Tanganyika and the fisherman village of Rumonge, the small lakes region close to Kirundo village, the hills and the tea plantations surrounding the city of Gitega, the Natural Reserve of Rusizi, the Kibira forest and the pigmy village of Busekera.

The episode has been produced in partnership with the Tourism Office of Burundi, the National Institute for Nature Conservation and the Environment of Burundi, and the Hotel Club Du Lac Tanganyika. Part of the Episode is running on Lonely Planet TV web site and youtube channel