My first solo trip took me to the high Himalayas of Spiti; I was on a sabbatical from my corporate job, and spent
a month volunteer traveling, helping the local organisation Spiti Ecosphere set up a «monk for a month» program for travellers.
Not exact matches
Nayquonabe is part of a group of 25
volunteers traveling to Kuwait this
month.
Three
volunteers in China have just spent three
months eating beetle larvae as part of a project to test life - support systems for deep - space
travel.
She worked her way around Australia for two years, spent three
months on an African safari,
travelled alone through the Middle East and
volunteered for a year in India.
For many Americans, the gap year itself is a foreign concept (my guess is most Americans don't even know what it means), but for those who just graduated high school in many parts of the world, the gap year — that 6 to 12
months off before entering college, usually
traveling the world, oftentimes
volunteering along the way — is a right of passage.
Before
travel blogging: After a
month of
volunteering in a hostel in Peru and with only less than $ 500 on our bank accounts..
I don't know if we could describe it as «funniest», but the part of our
travel that was the most fun can only be our
month volunteering with dogs at Elephant Nature Park in the north of Thailand.
Each
month we'll take a look at one
travel blog (
volunteered by the blog owner, of course) and review it -LSB-...]
Each
month we'll take a look at one
travel blog (
volunteered by the blog owner, of course) and review it with the objective of identifying what works and what doesn't, what's great about it and what could benefit from being changed.
As most
volunteers choose to stay and
travel around Fiji before or after
volunteering, they should enter the country on a «Visitor / Tourist Visa», which can be obtained for a period of up to 3
months.
Staying still for a
month to
volunteer can be a great way to deal with
travel burnout, which is something I recently suffered from.
They prefer quite slow - paced
travels, often taking on multiple -
month - long
volunteer or house - sitting stints and really immersing themselves in the places they -LSB-...]
Give an explanation of why those
months or that year was a professional blank, and add what you learned (did you
volunteer while
travelling?)
If it's a major move or
volunteer project you're excited about, see if you can
travel for a few
months to your dream locale or find ways to immerse yourself in the
volunteer work for several weeks.
Last year my boyfriend and I
traveled throughout SE Asia for a few
months and
volunteered at a community orphanage in The Philippines.