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Sustainable Hiking

As a travel company, Sichuan Travel Guide understands sustainable travel and try to align with sustainable travel requirements.

The Infrastructure

The following established (or under establishing) infrastructures of transportation, communication, energy-use have brought up the efficiency of working, traveling a lot in the last 20 years in China. We (as travel organizers as well as travelers) are benefiting from these. Now travelers can see more in less time. Especially for using fast trains in China, now you see more things/save more money without losing much more time by not flying.

1, Developed Public Transport including highways and fast train networks;

2, Further and faster internet/phone connection;

3, Accessible EV charging stations;

The Using of EV and HEV

Sichuan Travel Guide are now replacing the driving team with more EVs and HEVs. Your travel will be greener and will cost slightly less too.

Sichuan TrekWe are replacing our working cars to EVs.

Travel with the Locals

Money-Saving

We are the locals, by traveling with us, some of the tours we provide you will save more money by not paying to the big travel platforms/websites.

Locals are Hired and Paid

We involve a large number of local guides, rangers, drivers, nomads porters, horsemen and horsewomen in our work for travelers. Locals of Tibetans and Han Chinese are now paid on the same level and paid well. The vast land of Garze and Ngawa (Tibetan Highland of West Sichuan) are home to most of the natural wonders and good trekking places where we keep good relations with the local people.

Sichuan TrekLocals are hired to work on our trips.

The Sustainable Hiking

The hiking destinations in Sichuan are located at the traditional Tibetan and Qiang areas where Tibetan people and Qiang People live. Your travel/hiking trip into these places is making contribute to local economy. We promote a clean and green approach to a sustainable travel style by setting rules within our team on clearing up the trash, avoiding using excessive packaging, planning well on food and careful use of fire.

Challenges

1, Modernization increases local people’s living standard with more convenient transportation, more travelers, more job opportunities, and then more pollution. When management is poor (the present issue) the environment is under pressure.

2, Over-tourism especially in the mountains, nature, wild places where it’s not possible to be maintained have seen big pollution by hikers (mainly domestic hikers), this result into shutting of mountains, and beautiful nature reserves.

Sichuan TrekBusy Campsite is common by the "famous" hiking places.

3, The slowly increasing sense of environment protection of local people as well as that of the travelers.

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