Community Based and Sustainable Eco tourism in Thailand and Laos for small eco tourist groups – customized packages.

You want a genuine nature and culture experience in Thailand or Laos but don’t have the time to volunteer?

We help eco tourists who don’t have much time but still want a chance to go wild elephant trekking, meet local people and get a flavor of their culture on their terms. We arrange customized packages for small groups of eco tourists. The places we offer to take you to are places where we have volunteers helping local people and nature.

You can choose or combine one or several of these adventures

1. Wild elephant trekking and home stay in charming little Kham Pia, a village by the Phu Wua Mountains in Northeast Thailand near the Mekong River. Follow local guides into the mountains with a possibility to set up camp overnight.

2. Culture experience and training with the local headmaster and Thai culture expert in the small and charming Tung Fon town, northeast Thailand combine with a visit to the nearby World Culture Heritage Ban Chiang

3. Wild elephant trekking and staying overnight in an elephant watch tower, combine with a home stay with a Lao rice farmer and let him be your guide on a beautiful nature trail. Amazing nature trekking in the Phou Khao Khouai Mountains.

4. Sightseeing the Thai border town of NongKhai and the Lao capital Vientiane with local guides can also be arranged.

OpenmindProjects supports Responsible Eco Tourism and Wildlife Conservation in Thailand and Laos.

Our Eco Tours support our eco projects in Thai and Lao villages. By participating you help them! We involve local people in our project so they can learn and earn more. Responsible ecotourism avoids damage to the environment caused by mass tourism, and involve the local population, providing them with an extra source of income. Today most of the revenue stays with outside tourist and travel agencies and tour operators.
Nature is highly threatened in Thailand and Laos, due to logging, poaching and exploitation of nature for mass tourism. Community based and sustainable ecotourism is a means to protect the environment and help local people
We send eco volunteers to National Parks and villages to protect wildlife and help develop eco tourism.
We arrange for Eco tourists to go trekking, watch wildlife, enjoy nature, meet local people, and learn about their lives and culture. If you are willing to pay for a genuine eco tourism experience which benefits local people, nature and culture than contact us.

What we offer our eco tourists to Northeast Thailand, Isan and Laos

• We pick you up at the nearest airport

• Take you to the places of your choice

• Provide you with a local assistant and interpreter from the beginning to the end of your trip

• Arrange for local village trekking guides and local culture guides and teachers.

Included in the price

• Transports to/from airport and to eco destinations

• Meals and Accommodation

• Treks

• Culture and language training, cooking lessons as agreed

• Visa to Laos if going to Laos

• Local assistant/interpreter

• Local village guides

• Customized packages according to your choice of activities