|  | The camp has clear objectives: to provide the ultimate holiday experience while reducing poverty and promoting cultural and biological diversity.
- Bush walks
- Snorkelling
- Cultural interaction
- Scuba diving
- Visit to local village
- Football with the locals!
| The area to create the Guludo Base Camp was chosen for its incredible beauty and the opportunity to make a difference to local communities, where unemployment is high. The lodge is developed and run to complement and help the local environment and people. The aim is to raise the international standards and benchmarks to which other "ethical" tourism companies are measured.
The resort supports conservation and community projects and offers guests the opportunity to work shoulder-to-shoulder with local villagers on conservation and community projects; working together for a better, more sustainable future. Working on the projects is by no means obligatory. The resort provides a multitude of activities, such as diving and safaris, so you can achieve complete relaxation while knowing your holiday money is working hard in the surrounding area. |
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| Facilities
Guludo Camp is a Base for world-class diving, island exploration and discovering the interior of the new Quirimbas National Park hosting 4 of the Big African Five. The Camp has been designed by award-winning architects and built using local materials, skills and labour.
Guludo Base Camp is centred around a small natural river creek home to large array of different bird species. Over looking the creek and Indian Ocean is the restaurant and bar, an open building with a luxurious seating area and local styled bar. Opposite the restaurant and a small courtyard is the reception and south the kitchen.
The final building on the beach is the PADI Dive Centre. The dive centre has brand new equipment of the highest quality and an 8m (2x85hp) “Super Duck.” A highly experienced dive team offer a full range of PADI courses, from Open Water Diver to Dive Master. | Accommodation
Accommodation is in expansive bespoke tents with fully furnished, enclosed mosquito net double bedrooms and open-air marble bathrooms. The central buildings are more solid structures with palm thatch attached to a bamboo basket over open rooms with traditional wattle and daub walls. | ecoQuest
Conservation and community
At Guludo the aim is to provide the ultimate holiday experience while reducing poverty and promoting cultural and biological diversity. To achieve this the lodge offers the opportunity for guests to work shoulder-to-shoulder with local villagers (as well as offering the usual beach and safari destination activities). Guests are by no means obliged to help with the conservation and community projects that are going on in the background, and may prefer to relax knowing that your holiday money is working hard in the surrounding area. 
Community projects are based on the following:
- Water and sanitation
- Food security, including; agriculture, hygiene & nutrition and food access
- Education; vocational, academic, health and social issues
Types of conservation projects:
- Preventing the often tragic human/wildlife conflicts, predominantly with the elephants and lions.
- Improving environmental management of local communities; reducing hunting, sustainable fishing methods...
- Base line data collection including gathering information on specie diversity, density and life histories of elephants, lions, leopards, dugongs, coral etc.
- Helping Park wardens set up the national park.
There are also many parts of local village life that guests can experience - traditional face masks, friday night discos, football, seaweed collection to name a few. |  Footprint
Buildings have been built using largely local techniques and taking advantage of local skills and labour. These traditional methods have been developed and adapted as necessary to suit the particular form and requirements of the individual buildings. Structures are timber framed with masonry/mud or woven bamboo/matting infill panels. Roofs are thatched with makuti (coconut palm thatching panels).
Materials are chosen to minimise embodied energy (energy used in manufacture or transport) and materials involving unsustainably harvested timber or other plant species will be avoided.
Imported materials and components (piping, plumbing appliances, ironmongery, wiring, solar generators etc) are be kept to a minimum and chosen for low embodied energy and efficient energy use. Wherever possible components are chosen that are long-life and locally maintainable and reparable.
Energy
* Buildings are designed to use passive methods of cooling (i.e. strategic use of shading, building mass, stack effect ventilation, prevailing winds etc) with no air-conditioning.
* The use of fossil fuels is kept to a minimum.
* Solar energy is employed to heat water (direct radiation) and to generate electricity (photovoltaic cells).
* It is proposed that a methane gas generator (using waste organic material) be constructed on the site (for fridges and kitchen use).
* Cooking will be by means of wood and charcoal (sustainably sourced), gas (locally generated methane and where essential bottled) and solar (with parabolic cookers).
Water use
* The resort has been designed to minimise unnecessary and wasteful use of water.
* Fresh water is collected from a borehole inland of the resort.
* Waste water (from washing, showers etc) will be sand filtered and used for plant irrigation. | Rate includes
. tented accommodation
. meals
. 5% contribution to SERF (Social & Environmental Regeneration Fund) working in and around Guludo and the Quirimbas National Park. | Rate excludes
. diving and boat based snorkelling
. bush walks
. picnics
. road transfers
. dive courses
* beverages
* park fees
* flights & related taxes/fees
* visas
* travel insurance | Access
Guludo base camp is in the north of the Quirimbas National Park, Northern Mozambique, 85km north of Pemba as the crow flies.
The 2 main routes of entry are via Jo’burg and Dar Es Salaam. There are daily flights from Jo’burg either via Maputo or direct to Pemba. There are also 6 flights a week from Dar.
From Pemba, guests can fly to Matemo or Ibo islands using small air taxis and met by one of the lodge's boats for a 20 to 30-minute sea transfer OR arrange a road transfer through the Quirimbas National Park. By road it is 255km, with an average transfer time of 3.5 hours. | |
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