Travel Bloggers love visiting new places. No matter how much we travel there always seems to be another place we want to visit. Our bucket lists get longer and longer even though we keep ticking it off (a bit like my to do lists!) Which got me thinking. Even though we can go anywhere, are […]
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Volunteer With Monkeys At The International Primate Rescue Sanctuary
Volunteer: If you are looking for a place to volunteer with monkeys then there is no better place than the International Primate Rescue Centre in South Africa. International Primate Rescue started life as the Marmoset Welfare Foundation in March 1996 in Polokwane, South Africa, where founder Sue Mousley had been caring for primates since 1990. Fascinated by the […]
Elephant Nature Park : The best place to volunteer with elephants in Thailand
Volunteer: If you are looking for a place to volunteer with elephants in Thailand then there is no better place than the Elephant Nature Park near Chiang Mai. A few years ago we visited this wonderful place with my parents and we were blown away at the amazing work they do there. You can read […]
Nuuksio National Park – The perfect day trip from Helsinki, Finland
I gingerly stepped on to the frozen river feeling like an astronaut exploring a new world. I had some trepidation as I took those first few steps, knowing that any minute my weight will crack the ice and I will fall in. Seconds later the inevitable happened and I plunged into the cold dark water. […]
7 of the Best Hikes in Scotland
One of the best ways to experience Scotland is by hiking. This nation may be small, but it boasts of beautiful and incomparable landscapes and sceneries. From hills to high mountains, to the forest path, Riverside, and coastal trails, you’re never too far from a memorable hike. What’s more is that you can choose from […]
Amazing Places To Volunteer With Animals Abroad
Planet Earth is home to more than 8 million species. Now I know us humans like to think we are the only ones on this ball of rock but like it or not we have to share our world with others. Sadly on our travels we have seen animals suffering in so many ways. From […]
Why the tourism industry has to change and how you can help it do so
Hands up if you took a flight last year? The chances are that most of the readers of this blog took a flight at some time in the past year. Last year there was 1.2 billion international tourist arrivals and that figure is set to increase to 2 billion people by 2030. A quarter of […]
Volunteer with an animal shelter in Guatemala
Organisation: Animal Aware Location: The Shelter is located 800 metres south of the Pan-American Highway at Kilometre 40, close to the village of Sumpango, Guatemala Website: Volunteer with Animal Aware Founded in Antigua in 1998 and relocated to Sumpango in 2000 Animal AWARE is a non-profit organization working, through education and neutering campaigns, to reduce suffering and […]
Volunteer on a biodynamic farm in Norway
Volunteer on a biodynamic farm in Norway Organisation: BJØRKHAUGEN BIODYNAMIC FARM Location: Øverskottveien, 7105 Stadsbygd, Norway Website: Volunteer on a farm in Norway We are looking for people who are interested to spend some time with us on the farm. There are plenty of things to do and it is very important to be able to enjoy working and learning new […]
Observing the Orangutans of Sumatra in Gunung Leuser National Park
We looked into each others eyes and I instantly felt the connection. Be damned you evolution deniers, I can see with my own eyes that we are related. I could tell that she trusted us as she let her baby wander around freely. We had been like this for hours and I knew soon we […]
Volunteering in Australia
Welcome to our Volunteering in Australia page. Search for free and low-cost volunteering opportunities in Australia below. How to find volunteering opportunities in Australia You can access these opportunities in two ways. Your first option is to buy our Directory of Volunteering opportunities which lists these opportunities in a PDF. This gives you a document that is easy to […]
Two paradise islands to entice you to visit the Philippines
Earlier in the year I wrote a post sharing 11 reasons to visit the Philippines . I recently returned to this wonderful country for a week of island hopping. In that week, I fell back in love with the country and it’s people and I want to show why the Philippines is a fantastic destination to […]