Visit wondrous and enigmatic rockart sites and explore spectacular wildlife-teeming wetlands with local guides.
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Over the last decade, a small, community-centric tourism industry has sprung up here, with local guides leading village-to-village treks through the mountainous farmland.
Local guides say many Sichuanese tour office workers have been laid off.
Otavalo's Runa Tupari (www.runatupari.com), an indigenous-run agency involved in community tourism provides daily treks with local guides who explain the area's legends.
Often, for all the advance work, they can't get real information until they show up in a nearby town and work with local guides.
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All tourism operations in the parks are low-key, sustainable and in many cases, family run, with local guides that work alongside the authorities to promote conservation.
Last Wednesday, the tourists said, during a lull in the fighting and helped by their local guides, they walked through the front lines, carrying one bag each, to the Serena, a bit more than four miles away.
In Totnes, Transition have created local food guides, formed a sustainable building company, given talks and lectures to landowners and local government officials to show them how peak oil and climate change affect their management decisions.
The company has local content guides in a variety of cities, such as Los Angeles and San Francisco.
From the CBS visitor centre in Bermudian Landing, local village guides lead short nature walks that provide an up-close introduction to a resident troop of black howlers.
The combination of Trip Advisor and GPS navigation made it easier to explore outside of tourist zones, feel confident even when rather lost, and not at the mercy of cab drivers or local tour guides.
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The service includes guides who would visit local schools to educate students.
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And when the activities on offer include face-to-face encounters with habituated west lowland gorilla families, jungle walks with local Baka (or pygmy) guides and pirogue trips downriver in search of birds and other wildlife, it is hardly a surprise that Odzala has been garnering such attention.
Large resorts employ hundreds of local people, and local entrepreneurs, from taxi drivers to guides to souvenir shop owners, benefit from the tourism trade.
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Guides steer motorised canoes deep into the region, pausing in remote villages to visit welcoming local families and lead art buying expeditions (bring waterproof packaging).
From March 2010, all new Nokia GPS-enabled smartphones will come installed with the new Ovi Maps application and pre-loaded with local country map data and walk and drive navigation with access to location-aware Lonely Planet and Michelin travel guides at no extra cost.
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