"Footsteps"  is a traditional African Village compound, with 9 large huts, all with en-suite facilities and a veranda, ideal to sit and enjoy the balmy evenings. A restaurant, bar, lounge and 'Bantaba' are also available to all guests.

We are located in the middle of the bush, 1.6 km from the highway and 1km from the beach. We have varied wildlife all around us and the birdlife is spectacular.

We use solar power and a wind turbine and these methods provide all of the lodges electricity.

We use energy saving light bulbs and all our electricity is run on 12 volts.

We have our own vegetable gardens and plant life which is well maintained there are banana trees outside every hut as well as cashew trees, papya trees, mango trees, orange trees and grapefruit trees. In our gardens we grow all our own vegetables, salad and herbs. We keep ducks which provide eggs. Our gardeners recycle everything that they have a use for.

We don’t have a written policy however we have always purchased any products we can from the local people. We have a shop which showcases some of the skilled craftspeoples work and we do not take any percentage for advertising their wares. All we do is put the guests in touch with the craftsperson required and the rest is done between themselves.

We only have composting toilets you will not find a flusher anyway at footsteps. We encourage our guests and visitors to leave a deposit whenever they can.

The only chemicals we use are used in our kitchen for health and safety reasons all our other cleaning products are natural.

We have a greywater filtration system which means that after the guest has washed in it it then goes to water the gardens. We have tube wells which we then use solar pumps to fill the tanks. There is one piece of hose which runs outside each hut to heat water for showering and the hot water lasts approximately five minutes which ensures guests do not waste precious water supplies.

We have a greywater filtrations system and our pool is filtered through reed beds and blackstone .

We have a nature trail whioch we do not charge for and our guests are encouraged to take the walk and learn about the local flora and fauna. We continue to plant trees as an ongoing project.

The composting toilets are our pride and joy, we rave about them constantly and are trying to encourage others to follow our lead. All of the local villagers who work at the lodge see the benefits of this and are trying to install them into their own homes. We have already installed them in places locally and further a field.

All of our staff have been educated on the lodges processes so that they can explain it to our guests.This is on going and any new initiatives that we might undertake woulld include the staff being fully trained. We offer tours of our facilities to anyone showing an interest and we often have groups from places such as Coventry University.

We do not use any of the above because we are an eco lodge and paper is precious.

We feel that our staff training on all of the eco issues that we promote within the lodge enables us to really minimise any affects we have on our environment. The staff ensure that all our guests eco footprints are at an absolute minimum at our lodge by advising them of the way we dispose of things and utilise everything. We will continue our good practice and look for ways in which we can improve.

We have a lot of feedback via our link with responsible travel which guests can view and we also leave questionnaires in the guests room to see where we can improve our service. We are pleased to say that a good majority of our feedback is excellent as can be seen on the comments page of responsible travel.

We employ all of our staff from the local villages. We also ensure that we promote local markets and crafts people to our guests. Our company also gives 20% of our profit back to the local community which unfortunately due to the massive fire last year has been very little; however we hope that this will change this year. We encourage our guests to visit the local community and get involved with it. We also have guests sponsoring our staffs childrens education.

I am unaware of this certification and the benefits that it may bring. We have never really looked into these types of schemes.