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About us
Our communication center is in Bangkok, which maintains these web sites, keeps information and directs our research projects. For nature adventure treks, jungle walk and mountain hikes, boats on rivers and sea, cross cultural communication, minority ethnic tribal culture and life style, and survival skill building trips people who will co-manage and lead your trip are those working in national parks, villagers, village tourism committees, heads of the hilltribe villages, or small local tour operators. Nature and minority culture tourism While promoting touring in the rural areas and the forest such as national parks we try to help maintain the eco-system as properly as we could. Important information on the culturally and environmentally sensitive areas shall be informed to the tourists before visiting. To keep the cultural and other damages as little as possible there are guidelines tourists have to follow. we also limite the group size as small as possible. Local people at the place (hilltribe village in the mountain, etc.) are informed of the consequences both goods and bads. We try as much as we can to let villagers take part in the co-management of the tours. Places which are over visited and poorly managed shall be avoided. By promoting visits to rural areas, we intend to generate some income for the local people. Villagers provide their expertise as guides, trail readers, porters, helpers. Villages also provide food and other materials used in the trips. Village people are invited to join the conversation with visitors in which they share the knowledge and make friendship. According to our experience this can also create understanding between different cultures or different people from different lives. Villagers may get knowledge and better means of doing things and staying healthy. However it is also necessary not to transform a farming village into a tourist village in which local people abandon farming. Proper community jobs and educational activities may be done during the tourists' stay in a village. Visitors will become friends of the village, rather than simply seen as tourists. On the other hand we should not make the villagers become beggars. Nature trip with comfort For those who require comfortable, clean, and private accommodation while travelling adventure trips we have researched and selected some places in Thailand, Laos and Myanmar where you can go for a nature walk and stay in a reasonably comfortable place. We continue to find new places. 
Hinboun river - Laos | Mt. Victoria national park - Myanmar
Semi adventure treks, expeditions and explorations Some of our small group treks bring tourists to the nature (hilltribe villagers) trails where almost no tourists have ever walked before. To be able to offer these real jungle hiking we regularly go for survey and looking for villagers who know the trails. These trips will give you chance to test your limits and know yoursleves, learn tribal people' survival skills and simple lives in mountain villages. You will also gain more knowledge on plants and wildlife in Thailand forests. 
Multi days hike and jungle camp Imagine being able to talk with village people after the dinner in the jungle or at a hilltribe home! That is part of our cross cultural communication. Who will go with visitors on the eco-tours and nature trips For hiking in the nationals parks local guides (the ones who stay in the park and work for the conservation of the forest) from the royal forestry department or from the local village tourism club will take care of the tourists. In the area of hilltribe mountain peoples, villagers will be used as trail reader, helper, porter and guides. The trek guides have good knowledge of the area for which they help design and guide the trours, and experience in leading the treks of multi national visitors. A tour leader will be on hand throughout the trip where the trek guide does not speak English. Other tours We also provide hotel booking, car rental, train and air ticketing, boat rental, river travel, sightseeing, cultural and agricultural trips, ancient cities and archaeological sites visit, islands and beach tours, river and sea travel, etc. Request for educational trips for schools and Universities, team management outings for companies and corporations, photo shooting and painting trips, research, volunteering, etc. are welcome. Safety and health Safety and health are paramount importances and will not be compromised. Since many of our jungle treks are customised (they are not mass commercial operations that take you on well, daily, beaten tracks) it is even more important to discuss and explain well ahead of the begining of the trip. The difficulty level of the trip, estimate weather forecast, landscape and ecology, your fitness and training requirement shall be communicated. If you are first time to tropical forest more communication will be needed. You are advised to have a look at our various treks photo essays at www.ourweb.info website. Accordingly we will discuss on clothes and gear, food and medicines to bring to the trip. We will want to know more about you to be able to provide you better advises. As well your travel details before and after the trek should be adjusted to make room for the unexpected occurances during the trek. Safety preparation will include:
Business directory, marketing and research (over the Internet) We keep a local business directory (at the moment Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia) in which we include small and medium size businesses. Businesses which take responsibility for the effects on community and environment are all welcome to send information for listing in the directory free of charge. Free listing is just a paragraph of text that includes company name, contact details and a brief info. Website design and development Since we know that proper use of Internet can make a big difference in the business, we provide simple yet effective and content rich web site design and consulting services to small and medium size companies around the world. What else we do As mentioned in this web site we have community projects in which visitors may participate if interested and when available. Please read "Projects" page. We also sometimes have study tours designed for young people, in which a small group of youngsters go for a nature/culture tour in do-it-yourself way. We are now starting to promote hand made products of hilltribe people and villagers in the rural areas of this region. Please check our "Hand made products" page. Contact details in Bangkok KSS Wise Ltd., Part. 4/1 Soi Ladprao 52, Ladprao road, Wangthonglang Wangthonglang, Bangkok 10310. Thailand. Fax +66-2-380 6080 Cell phone: +66-81-802 1723 Tourism Authority of Thailand Licence No. 14/00248 
Phone in north America: +1 778 389 0800 [Pacific standard time (PST)/Mountain standard time (MST)] Contact address in Yangon Asterism Travels & Tours Co., Ltd. No. 252 / 29 (M-6) Shwe Pyi Soe Street, Myin Thar 14 / 2 yard South Oakkalapa Tsp, Yangon Phone +95-1-563 076 Tour Licence: KHA/0920 |
