Green Hill Valley Elephant Camp
A sanctuary near Kalaw caring for elephants no longer fit to work, with a reforestation programme guests help plant.
Corporate social responsibility
Travel that gives back.
Responsible travel isn't a marketing line for us — it's how a family business earns the right to operate for thirty years. Here's what that looks like in practice.
As tourism grows, we believe the development that comes with it has to be carried out responsibly.
That takes everyone — government, local authorities, operators and travellers alike. We do our part by favouring locally-owned hotels, employing and training local guides, supporting social enterprises, and channelling a share of every trip into the projects below.
What we support
Three causes close to home.
Schools & education
Working with UK-based partners, we helped rebuild a primary school destroyed by Cyclone Nargis in 2008 — and keep working on the harder, longer task of keeping children in class rather than pulled away for work.
HIV/AIDS care
We donate regularly to the Happy Haven Humanitarian Project, a hospice near Yangon caring for children living with HIV/AIDS, and help travellers visit and learn through private, sensitive excursions.
Food & orphan support
We helped establish the Mingalar Bio Garden — five acres of organic fruit and vegetables grown with homemade bio-fertiliser — whose entire harvest supports an orphanage providing free education to over a thousand children.
Projects we love
Good causes you can build into your journey.
We don't run these ourselves, but we'll happily weave a visit into your trip — they're some of the most memorable days our travellers have.
Living Irrawaddy Dolphin Project
Conservation work with the cooperative fishing villages protecting the roughly 80 dolphins that remain on the river.
Sunflowers Organic Dye Weaving
A studio near Inle Lake reviving natural-dye weaving and providing fair work to local women.
Shwe Sa Bwe & training kitchens
Hospitality schools and training restaurants that give disadvantaged young people a route into work.
Yangon Animal Shelter
A refuge for the city's rescued street dogs, which welcomes visitors and volunteers.
Plastic-free travel
We favour bamboo straws, refillable bottles and low-impact transport — bikes, boats and kayaks over engines where we can.
Want a whole trip built around this?
Our 12-day journey The Responsible Seven strings these projects and social enterprises into a single, low-impact route.
Start the conversation
Let’s design your Myanmar.
Tell us how you like to travel and one of our Yangon-based specialists will reply within two working days — with ideas, not a hard sell.