While volunteers are encouraged to join SavingGanesh at any time, we are only organizing one group tour the winter of 2022.

This special tour has been organized for the Untamed Elephants NFT community.

We are requesting a $500 nonrefundable deposit to secure a spot, with the remainder due one week prior to trip departure, being February 7, 2022. Pay via the button above, or go here: https://linktr.ee/SavingGanesh 

Because Covid...we want to be as flexible as possible. If for any reason SavingGanesh must cancel, then the entire amount - $500 deposit and any other prepayments will be fully refunded. Airfare purchase, cancelations or changes are fully your responsibility.

Frequently Asked Questions and How do I sign up for a tour?

VISA: Currently, Sri Lanka is one of the world's easiest to travel to, especially for vaccinated travelers. Go here for information: https://www.srilanka.travel/helloagain/

Tax Deduction: You will be joining us as a contributor/volunteer, thus your expenses may be deductible. Our EIN number is 47-2047666

More about Payments: 

Hotels and Food

NFT Tour Announcement: 

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Duties to qualify for tax deduction: You will be prompted at any time to take up a microphone, a camera, or provide "influencer" activities, by writing about elephants to your audience in social media or elsewhere. You will be learning much about elephants and will become an advocate. If you take up these roles, you are welcome, from our perspective, to write-off 100 percent of your travel cost. Otherwise, a 70 percent write-off is acceptable. Any donations beyond $200 per day is fully tax deductible, without limitation. 

Please Go Here to make a nonrefundable $500 deposit for your tour.

Reserving your trip is easy! You can click any of the links shown above or even via the "Donate" page of SavingGanesh.org's website: https://www.elephantsnow.org/donate​

Please use this local address when applying for your visa: 
Address: Peacock Hotel, Matara Road, Peellagoda, Unawatuna
Phone: 077 648 0155

The typical accommodations you will enjoy during our travels to Sri Lanka are mostly 2.5 star hotels by Western standards, and four star by Eastern Standards.  We do our best to stay at the cleanest accommodations available in each region. Sometimes while joining wildlife rangers in the field, we don't have our first choice, but reasonable efforts are always made.

We eat at the best and cleanest restaurants available anywhere we travel. Kothu is a staple while on the road in rural areas. String hoppers are a tradition for breakfast with coconut sambol and dal. Fruit is abundant everywhere. Veg and non-veg options are available in this largely Buddhist country. 

FAQ

In the memo section of your payment, please specify that this is a deposit for a Sri Lanka tour!

Please call Philip on WhatsApp with questions: 1 458-256-1306 or video chat or message via Facebook

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