Demok Community Eco-Tours is a program promoting the unity of conservation, communities, and sustainability travel by providing opportunities to travelers to experience what Nature has to offer from the small island of Palau, a concept shared with Palau by the Sasakawa Peace Foundation of Japan, and bringing back what today’s island people have forgotten.
The Sasakawa Peace Foundation started a project for balancing economic benefit and conservation of the environment (nature) and culture by introducing an effective management method, called Community Based Eco-Tourism, working with States on the big island of Babeldaob. Such concept is in harmony with the islanders’ belief that the environment (nature) and culture are one and the same.
Natural beliefs of the ancestral people of the island of Palau, for the most part, considered the “Environment and Culture” as one and the same with the understanding that one can’t exist without the other. To protect and preserve the island’s natural Environment reflects on the societal Culture of the people… it identifies with the island people who believed in the power of the skies, water, and the land that respects and relates to the world that surrounded the Palauan people.
Efforts of our Eco-Tour program is to share with friends and visitors. as well as re-learning what we have forgotten. by discovering the long-lost treasures our ancestors bequeathed to us. At the same time, we prioritize caution and therefore not overwhelming the fragile natural eco-system, and as such, Demok Community Eco-Tours will accept, at the most, about 10-15 visitors a week. However, please do not be discourage as reservations are booked, Demok Community Eco-Tours will try and do their very best to accommodate each and every visitor.
Fees for the package tours below reflects the number of visitors accordingly. Please refer all questions regarding the Tour Packages to Demok Community Eco-Tours through e-mail communication (demokcommunityecotours@gmail.com) or by calling the mobile phones as listed.
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All package tours include the following sites to visit... the Ngerchokl Area, Olebakelderau Site, Ngaruau Place, lunch at Kuabs Park and Beriber Point.
We are deeply committed to protecting and conserving our resources, ensuring a sustainable future for generations to come. We believe in the importance of sharing our knowledge and resources with others, so that they too can contribute to the preservation and conservation of our planet, of which in turn supports in extending the live of our island as well as our people.
Our goal is to create a harmonious balance between humanity and nature, where future generations can enjoy the same abundance that we have today. Through education and awareness, we strive to inspire others to join us in our mission to protect and conserve our environment and along the way our culture as well. Together, we can make a difference and ensure a better tomorrow for all.
Our traditional knowledge and our voice alone, to alleviating the effects of Climate Change, is not enough to save our small world from being wiped out from the face of our planet and with your support, our generations may very well live to see tomorrow.
Clam planting at Choll Village in 2017 on the coast of Remachel!
Stone causeway at Ngkeklau Village before it was destroyed in 2015 by State government
Huge fire at Ngerchokl Site in 2018 started by surveyors of National Government
Landslides at Roisingang at Compact Road during a one-month heavy rain in 2022
Ngaraard Elementary students picked up trash on east coast of Ngaraard in 2017
If time permits or a majority of the group feeling excited with the Sun still above the horizon, bonus tour [s] to Choll Village to the north of Ngaraard State or the village of Ngkeklau to the south of the State can be visited before heading back to the hotel).
Note: The weather can be a friend or an enemy, depending on one's perspective, and so bringing along waterproof jacket in case of rainy days would be great readiness in preparation for the unexpected. And since the tour will mostly take place in the jungle, it wouldn't hurt to be prepared by putting-on proper shoes and wearing long-legged pants as it would be ideal for the trek through the dense forest that can be unfriendly at times.
Visitors are picked up at the hotel (regardless of whether all are staying at the same hotel or different hotels) in the morning at 7:45am - 8:00am to commence the journey to the four tour sites. Drinks (water/coconut and local snacks will be provided during the first and second site visits). After the third site visit, lunch will be served in the afternoon at Kuabs State Park and visitors will have the opportunity to enjoy the breeze from the eastern sea and allow your feet to relax on the beach. After lunch, you will visit the fourth site and after that, you are taken to one of the highest peaks of Ngaraard State at Olsebokelkedam Hill for a fantastic view to the east and west coasts before journey back to the hotel. After dropping customers at the hotel, the driver will pick-up and deliver one 16" pizza (free of charge) to the counter for hotel personnel to bring it up to the room!
Kuabs Park also provide facilities with restrooms and showers for both men and women for convenience to freshen-up so bringing a change of clothes can be a life-saving commodity.
Small reminder... it takes about an hour from hotel in Koror State to the first site visit in Ngaraard State so powder one's nose before departure as the next stop with facilities will be available in about three hours' time!
Package A1
One (1) Customer Tour Price - $250.00
Package A2
Two (2) Customers Tour Price - $480.00
$240.00 for each visitor
Package A3
Three (3) Customers Tour Price - $690.00
$230.00 for each visitor
Package A4
Four (4) Customers Tour Price - $880.00
$220.00 for each visitor
Package A5
Five (5) Customers Tour Price - $1,000.00
$200.00 for each visitor
Come walk among the legendary footsteps of our ancestors and discover the hidden treasures of the islands!
Book your tour reservations at demokcommunityecotours@gmail.com
Our team here at...
Our strength lies in our individuality, a gift from our parents' teachings. Set up with the assistance and support of everyone in the group, the team strives to provide the best of services in the tour activity and feed-backs from guests and visitors would allow us to improve our talents as expected from all of you who makes this all possible.
JeRome Temengil
Owner / Manager
Latoya Besebes
Advisor / Assistant Tour Guide
Nestralda Mechaet
Tour Guide
Ngeldei Manahan
Tour Guide
Demok Community Eco-Tours
Christopher Suzuki
Assistant Tour Guide
