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Help us spread the word!!!

2009-03-11T09:20:00.000-07:00

Our friends have started a campaign to help us out spread the word about weekeego!

Check Oksana's post here.

They do believe in weekeego's ideals and philosophy, and want to support the local communities that partner with us in their search for alternatives to increase their income in a responsible manner, using tourism as a way for it, preserving and enhancing their local culture, heritage and natural resources.

Wanna help out as well?

Simple, check our website, get immerse in what we are doing, and if you think is worth spreading the word, make a post in your blog and let us know about it!

Don't hesitate to send us your comments, suggestions and/or questions to info@weekeego.net

You can also follow us here in blogger, or here in twitter, or subscribe here to our youtube channel, or our facebook group and page.

March 2009 Highlights... Your dreamed holidays!!!

2009-03-10T08:21:00.000-07:00

Based on your feedback, this is our pick for March 2009 based on your preferences...

[CLICK ON THE NAMES TO DOWNLOAD ONE PAGE SUMMARY]

* Unveil Tabanan [Bali - Indonesia]

* Close to the Chimps [Uganda]

* Corner of Light [Morocco]

* Incredible Nilgiris [India]

* Experience Isaan [Thailand]

Check them out at weekeego.net

We will be more than happy to help you sort out details for your weekeeJourney, just send us a mail!

Check them out and send us your questions, we will be pleased to hear from you!!!

The weekeego Team

We Are Being Discovered More and More!!!

2009-02-23T03:52:00.000-08:00

I found this fascinating quote about weekeego today:

I just would like to share with you a website I found and that I got in touch with its creators/managers.

I really like the adopted approach as it is community oriented and puts forward the experience of travelling first. I have said here several times that the most important thing regarding ecotourism is to establish as much as possible a true connection with the locals and to get a sense of the place. These values are utterly shared by the people behind weekeego.
Guillaume Foutry, Ecotourism: Taking Pictures and Leaving Footprints, Feb 2009

You should read the whole article.

YOU DECIDE! March April 2009 Booking Promotion

2009-02-12T04:09:00.000-08:00

Hey friends of weekeego,

Our Ghana Promotion has been extremelly welcomed by many of you!

[see brochure]

However we have received some messages from people interested to know of promotions for specific countries, so we thought of asking you where will you like to go during 2009!!

Check our current destinations here.

You decide which the next promotion will be and we'll talk with our local partners to find a way to create special packages!
COOL isn't???

Just visit our facebook group and leave a post in the Discussion Board or in the Wall, or send us a message or a mail to info@weekeego.net...
We will be compiling your preferences until 20th February...

And don't forget to become a fan of weekeego here.
It is just one click away!!!

Have a WEEKEED day!
Yours,

The weekeego Team

3 NEW AWESOME weekeeSpots!!!

2009-02-06T04:02:00.000-08:00

3 perfect samples of what weekeego really is all about!

3 dreams that came true in the hands of visionaries that decided to partner with communities and set up a venture that enhances, enriches and empowers the local people, their life style and their life standards.

3 ways of going local and dance with the world as it REALLY is!!!
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True Learning Village - Zimbabwe

The dream of Marianne Knuth was to inspire the co-creation of strong life affirming communities in Zimbabwe and beyond by living and sharing the wisdom, practices and social systems that are required for such communities.
The village strives to be a resource for the world - developing ourselves as a place where we explore and seek to live what we believe to be possible. We are working with five rural communities and one urban group in our quest for life-affirming community. We are working with them to develop the foundation for initiatives that will strengthen and nourish a community.

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Living Ecologically - Dominica
During his early 20's, Jem Wiston dreamt of building and running a small place in Dominica, having disovered it during his backpacking days in 1990. Then he got serious and returned to England to save money to be able to buy land in Dominica. And so it began, on an overgrown banana plantation, in a remote part, of a remote island in the Caribbean; now his home, Dominica.

From the beginning the idea has been to create the ideal getaway, respecting the environment and working closely with the locals to create an ambience that is a mixture of cultures, where people on any budget can enjoy the natural wonders of Dominica, whilst minimizing the environmental impact and aiding the development of the local community. Together with an excellent team of local workers, they are now receiving a steadily growing flow of guests.

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Getting Inspired - South Africa
Dave Martin is a former hippie that decided to stop his traveling adventures and set up a lodge. This lodge is the realization of his dreams during years of travels through the most remote parts of Africa, China and South America: to create an eco-friendly backpackers lodge in the most beautiful place in South Africa in partnership with a vibrant, traditional community.

This is a joint partnership with the local community who own 40% of the lodge and run fifteen of their own tourism businesses.

You will be welcomed as a friend of the community and will get to see a way of life long forgotten. Here you have a chance to see how great life could be before electricity, TV and computers.

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EXCITING ISN'T???
Don't wait until last moment, start talking to your friends about it and plan from now your next holidays in some of these amazing places!
We assure you, this is a breathtaking experience!

Check their profiles at

weekeego.net

The weekeego Team

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Help us spread the word by inviting your friends to the facebook group or become fans of weekeego.
You can also post the group in your profile or write about us in your blog, we will truly appreciate that.
Thanks in advance for your help on behalf of the local communities we partner with!

weekeed Ghana - The video!!!

2009-01-22T08:33:00.001-08:00

Check out what we have for you in Jan Feb 2009!!!

You cannot miss it!!!

weekeed Ghana - Booking Promotion Jan Feb 2009

2009-01-20T08:42:00.000-08:00

Hi there weekeePeople!!!

During January and February we are running our first promotion,

weekeed Ghana!

Get discounts while booking during January and February to visit our spots in Ghana during 2009. If you book one week in each of the two spots we have in Ghana you can get up to 40 Euros discount. Additional discounts for groups +10 people!!!

Great isn't?

Ok, ok... What have our spots in Ghana to offer YOU?

Imagine...

Enjoy our bonfire nights where reggae band performs and you can listen to live music whilst looking up the stars in the sky…

Learn how villages use “talking drums” to communicate within the village and between different villages…

Learn a traditional song and how to move your body to the rhythm of African beats...

Pick some tips whilst going traditional fishing on local floaters…

Cook with us traditional Fufu, a staple food of West and Central Africa…

Get your hand dirty and help us in our current project of building a school…

Support the tutors of our educational program in their activities during your stay here…

Imagine...

Take nighttime walks along the beaches in order to help on mapping nests, gathering and re-nesting of turtle eggs

Enjoy the wonder of hatchery monitoring and baby turtle release

Travel across a beautiful dark watered lake, through lush jungle and past traditional fishing traps to a typical African village completely surrounded by water

Enjoy spotting many different species of birds and spider monkeys

Go out to sea with the fishermen on their traditional wooden fishing boats and watch as they use time old fishing methods

After rowing out you will be able to help lay the fishing net and pull in the catch!

Download our brochure for weekeed Ghana

If you need more info, please visit our website and don't hesitate to send us a mail.

You can also join our facebook group and check our weekeed Ghana in the events for more pictures that describe your weekeeAdventure in Ghana!

Have a weekeed day,

The weekeego Team.
weekeego.net

Welcome to weekeego!!!

2008-11-04T08:22:00.001-08:00

We definitely are the most wicked community of responsible travelers. Quite a statement, eh?

Become part of our community and connect with other people that, like you, want to live authentic experiences in local communities around the world!

One thing is for sure, you will be embarking into the most amazing journey ever. We’re not talking about one journey to one destination. We are talking about a growing number of destinations that increases constantly and that you help us enhance.

In weekeego we’re talking about a gentle shaking of perspectives; a little insight into your values; a subtle questioning of purpose; all this in the frame of journeys, projects, conversations, interactions, experiences. Overall, we offer you the adventure of a life time.

The best part?

We create it together!

We also promise you that the type of journeys we offer will let emerge the best out of you and make the world a better place in consequence! Having fun while making a difference sounds pretty cool, isn’t?

The unique opportunity to go local and dance with the world as it really is, without additives. It's what we do best. This is, in simple, what we offer you...