Oasis Overland 2023-2024 Brochure - Catalog - Page 56
TRIP COST
& LOCAL PAYMENT
Most of our trips involve two payments. One is the Trip
Price which is payable to Oasis Overland or your Travel
Agent before departure. The other payment is what
we term a ‘Local Payment’ or LP, which is payable to
the Tour Leader upon joining the trip. Once the Trip
Price has been paid and Local Payment collected they
are guaranteed and Oasis Overland will not ask you
for more money. Both these payments go towards the
total trip price and are not refundable once your trip
has started. The Local Payment does not apply to our
Small Group Adventures in Pakistan or Morocco.
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WHAT IS THE
LOCAL PAYMENT?
This is a pre-determined amount which covers
various local costs that cannot be paid or are costly
to pay from the UK. It enables your crew to pay
for some services in cash directly to local people
on the ground such as for food, fuel, local guides,
accommodation, gas, firewood, entrance fees to
sites or game parks. This helps reduce the overall
price of the trip which in turn passes cost savings
onto you. The advantage of Local Payments over
‘kitty’ based systems is that once this has been
collected it is a guaranteed amount - you will not be
asked for additional payments. Once your trip has
started, the Local Payment, as with the pre-paid trip
price, is not refundable.
OPTIONAL EXCURSIONS
& ACTIVITIES
Optional excursions and activities are organised
during your trip - you can decide whilst travelling
which activity you may want to do. We feel that having
optional excursions gives a greater degree of flexibility
and independence to decide how much your spending
budget can afford. They are paid for on the day direct
to the local operator, ensuring your money stays with
that operator in the local community and also ensuring
that you are paying the true price for any excursions
you do. If you decide not to join an excursion,
you will have free time to relax or wander
off to a market, village or beach,
depending on where we are.
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MINI-ADVENTURES, TRIP ADD-ONS &
VOLUNTEER PROJECTS
In certain areas you have the option to experience a
Volunteer Project or a Mini-adventure/Add-on before
or after your trip - some you can do even without
booking one of our trips. These are activities such
as accommodation during Rio Carnival, Masaai
Mara game safaris, climbing Mt Kilimanjaro or a
Galapagos Islands.
Past volunteering projects include assisting in a
children’s school or helping out on a wildlife project.
We can organise these via local operators, and we
ensure that projects & adventures provided have a
positive effect on the communities visited. Please
see our website for details of current options.
RESPONSIBLE TRAVEL & LOCAL COMMUNITIES
Oasis Overland realise the important role we play
in ensuring that our trips are run responsibly to
maximise the potential benefits to local communities
and minimise the negatives. We believe that our trips
should benefit local people and their environments,
or at the very least not harm them. On all our trips
we aim to put as much back into local communities
as possible. We endeavour to shop at local markets
and use locally owned and run hotels, campsites,
operators and guides. We have a clear environmental
policy which travellers are advised of prior to travel
and this is reinforced by our crew at the start of each
trip. Travellers are advised of things they can do on
their trip that will make a positive difference to the
environment, people, wildlife and regions through
which we travel.
As such, we support community, wildlife and
children’s projects in Kenya, Egypt, Zimbabwe and
Tanzania. This includes an annual set of day trips for
the 100 plus children from a Zimbabwean Children’s
Home on our overland trucks which our Oasis crew
volunteer to run.
Oasis Overland is committed to working with local
operators and service providers and supporting
communities with our trade. We recognise that we
have gained so much from the countries we have
operated in over the years that we also want to give
something back to those who are unlikely to benefit
much from tourism.
Please note: this brochure is valid for 2023 and
2024. Some Trip Costs, Local Payments and
Itineraries may change, subject to local conditions, border crossing rules and logistics for our
vehicles, and COVID-19 restrictions.
Please check our website www.oasisoverland.co.uk
for up-to-date prices as well as up-to-date itineraries
and more detailed information on all our trips.
FOR MORE DETAILS AND IMAGES OF OUR EXPEDITION VEHICLES SEE OUR WEBSITE
