Community experience package

As an Eco Lodge, we feel that community based tourism is essential in order to ensure that our local friends benefit from our existence.
We have also found that the majority of our guests have had some fantastic experiences simply spending days with the locals in the surrounding villages.

Bearing this in mind, we now offer a number of local community based activities for our visitors enjoyment, which, at the same time, is helping many local people earn a few dollars and enabling them to provide for their families.

The activities which we offer will give you a true taste of life in Dominica, as seen by a Dominican, and will be an experience which we are sure you will never forget, giving you not only an insight into true village life, but almost certainly helping you to make friends with and give some help to some of the gentlest and friendliest people around.

This package lasts 7 nights / 8 days, getting to know our local village. Grand Fond.

You will follow this itinerary, approximately:

• Day 1 : Arrive and transfer to 3 Rivers.
• Day 2 : Local guided hike to some stunning waterfalls within our beautiful valley.
• Day 3 : Spend the day on a small farm with a local method, learning their farming practices and helping out on the farm ; learn local cuisine, and enjoy a tasty lunch with the famer.
• Day 4 : Village walkthrough  – walk through our village of Grand Fond, visiting a centenarian, the health centre, and few cool characters, and then spend the afternoon helping out in the local village primary school : getting to know the kids, and sharing experiences with them and giving general assistance – finish the day meeting your homestay host family, and spend the night with them in the village. Evening meal and breakfast with the family is included.
• Day 5 : Spend the day in the village with your host family, learn how they spend their day and participate in their daytime activities
• Day 6 : Local crafts day harvesting coconuts & bamboo, then learning to make crafts with them. Make a gift to take home for someone you care about..
• Day 7 : Free day
• Day 8 : Depart for airport / ferry terminal.