Desia Eco Tourism Camp

We stayed for three nights to discover nature and see what life is like in the Koraput hills. The rooms are beautifully crafted, and the bathroom looked like it was designed by the late artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser. All the staff worked hard to make us enjoy our stay with lots of smiles, tasty food and a never-ending stream of tea or coffee. We learned a lot about village life, in particular from Pano, and Meela, and our local guide Gusso. All of them had fun in teaching us their local language, which really helps when approaching people in their village or on the market.

We are traveling for one year, 5 months India. We are backpakkers and 4e time traveling here. DESIA was the almost perfect experience in our whole travel, because of there way to come in contact with the tribes in a responsable way. Actually ... I learned at DESIA how this can be done the best way ! There staff are all from different tribe groups and introduced us at there family by having thee or, dinner our even singing for them. This felt very personal and relaxed... And most important of all very respect full. The tribes truly have a different kind of culture...so you need good guidens to make no unknown mistakes. First, we where used to do every thing at ower own, so we want to do this here too. But than we would never hat this intense real contact learning experience we where looking for.!! It takes patience, onesty, respect, witch they coll Responsable Tourisme.I agree 100%. We toke many splendid pictures of tribal persons, after real contact, so we did not treat them as a object to impress people at home.... So, I feel very grateful to DESIA staff that we where there guest one month ago now.THANKS. Again ! Paul Wilke Het was echt een geweldig mooie ervaring als je de stammen van India wil zien. Ga echt niet mee met die reisorganisaties, want die gaan vaak niet respectvol om met de stammen. Ik heb heel bot gezien hoe reizigers werden gedropt in een dorp, en de gidsen total niemand daar kennen. De touristen maakte zomaar ongevraagd fotos als of het een dierentuin was...of kochten onvervangbare erfstukken... Uit onwetendheid. Als je zelf dit ook niet respectvol vindt, dan ga paar dagen naar DESIA, minimaal 4 dagen en daar zal je dan ervaren hoe het EERLIJK Kan. Paul Wilke