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Volunteer Travel Can Give Vacations a Purpose
Volunteer work that helps a community can be rewarding. For people that enjoy travel and taking time to volunteer, voluntourism is an alternative way to take vacations.
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Volunteering on America's Hiking Trails
A volunteer vacation combines working in the outdoors, hiking, and meeting other trail enthusiasts. Opportunities abound on America's hiking trails, parks and forests.
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Intergenerational Volunteer Vacations
Volunteer vacations are a great way to spend quality time with the grandchildren. By planning ahead, you can do a good deed and have fun while stretching your dollars.
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Alternatives to Mexico for Spring Break Vacation
The US State Department has issued warnings against college students traveling to Mexico for spring break this year. There are many great alternative vacations available.
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Carrying Money During a Volunteer Vacation
Safely carrying multiple forms of money offers the greatest flexibility when traveling. Even the almost obsolete travelers check can come in handy in certain locales
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Coping with Culture Shock on Volunteer Vacations
International volunteers might spend a couple of weeks, several months, or even longer, abroad. Coping with culture shock requires flexibility, sensitivity, and humor.
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Get Involved Through Volunteer Vacations
There's a great new way of traveling these days--volunteer vacations. It is traveling with a sense of real purpose. It is getting involved, be it, unearthing medieval treasures, building dikes or saving whales--these miniscule contributions put the adventure back into travel.
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Luggage for Overseas Volunteer Vacations
It is wise to research in advance to find the luggage that fits your packing needs and the type that will be comfortable and easy to handle at your destination.
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Meet New People on a Volunteer Vacation
In as little as a week, a community develops on a volunteer site and the right mix of ages and nationalities can add to the overall experience.
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Preventing Medical Issues on Volunteer Vacations
Preventative measures can help minimize the chance of contracting diseases such as malaria, swine flu, dysentery, cholera, yellow fever, typhoid, and others.
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Seven Things to Have on a Volunteer Vacation
Love packing lists? Here are suggested conveniences to have at a volunteer site. Some items are best brought from home while others can be found in the foreign country.
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Volunteer Vacation in India
Living among other cultures is one of the greatest privileges of traveling. By getting involved with the community, you'll find more than the average tourist.
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Volunteer Vacations
Vacationers can help make the world a better place by volunteering for humanitarian, scientific and environmental projects worldwide.
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Volunteer Vacations in the Great Outdoors
Join an exciting service trip sponsored by the Wilderness Volunteers, a nonprofit that promotes environmental stewardship and conservation of American treasures.
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Volunteer Vacations in the United States
Volunteer vacations provide rewarding experiences that make a difference. Use hands-on skills to serve meals in a shelter, help build a home, or clear trails in a forest.
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Volunteer Vacations-Secular Mission Trips
Helping holidays are growing in popularity. Like secular mission trips, volunteer vacations are available worldwide. Vacation on a farm, ranch or resort and stay for free
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Voluntourism-Vacations That Make a Difference
Volunteer vacations, also known as voluntours, are a perfect way to make a positive difference in a meaningful, hands-on way.
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What is Available on a Volunteer Vacation
What to do as a volunteer can be the second important question for many travelers. With so many options, narrowing the search makes it easier to find the right project.
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Why Take a Volunteer Vacation?
The reasons why people volunteer vary tremendously. This question thoughtfully answered makes all the difference in finding the right match for a volunteer vacation.
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Inti Wara Yassi, Bolivia
This almost-free volunteer vacation opportunity offers the chance to help rehabilitate abused animals at the Parque Machia refuge in Villa Tunari, Bolivia.
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Safe Havens for Turtles
Help save endangered turtles by volunteering your time.
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Active Seniors Unique Adventures
Here are great ideas for older men and older women to remain active, volunteer to help, make friends, travel, and share their skill and wisdom globally or close to home,
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Crow Canyon Adult Research Program, Colorado
This article discusses an archaeological volunteer opportunity at Crow Canyon, Colorado
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Lighthouse Vacations In The Great Lakes Region
Volunteer vacations in Michigan allow guests to spend a week as a lighthouse keeper, sleep in a lighthouse and help teach others about the Great Lakes region.
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Sea Turtle Conservation on a Georgia Island
Loggerhead turtle populations are declining worldwide. Volunteers with the Caretta Research Project help protect nests and escort hatchlings safely to the ocean.
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Volunteer To Help Coral Reefs
Volunteer diving opportunities to help save coral reefs.
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Volunteer Travel Tips - Where, What and How Much
Nate Cavalieri, co-author of "Lonely Planet Volunteer, a Traveler's Guide to Making a Difference Around the World", looks at how to combine travel with volunteering.
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When is the Best Time for a Volunteer Vacation?
Having decided what to do, where to volunteer and with whom to share the experience, the next question is when can the volunteer traveler leave?
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An Explosion of International Volunteer Options
Volunteer vacations and voluntourism agencies have grown by double digits over the past few years. What can a savvy volunteer do to find the right placement?
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Be a Friend of the Oceans
Help save the world's ocean resources by taking ACTION today.
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Cheap Deals on Volunteer Trips in China, Italy
A top Over-55 travel company, Elderhostel offers service trips where mature travelers teach English as well as meet communities in China and Southern Italy
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Health Issues When Volunteering Overseas
When traveling internationally, your immunization record can be of great interest at immigration. Begin early and research what immunizations are required to travel.
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Holiday Giving With a Travel Theme
A few ideas in the holiday spirit that you can take advantage of throughout the whole year.
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Packing Tips When Volunteering Overseas
To pack only what is needed when volunteering overseas, ask the questions what to wear as a volunteer and tourist, how many sets to take, and can it be found locally?
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Frommer's 2008 Travel Bargains
Travel guidebook publishers Arthur Frommer and Pauline Frommer shared their top travel bargains for 2008 with attendees of the April Atlanta Travel Expo.
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Host Country – Ethical Travel
The Tour d'Afrique bicycle race from Cairo to Cape Town is an extreme example of volunteer travel. We speak to Nate Cavalieri of Lonely Planet about voluntourism.
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Travel Zines
Get out your walking shoes - we've got travel zines galore!
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Finding a Fun and Unique Job
Want a unique job? A fun internship abroad? Job in sports? Chance to work on a dude ranch? There are a variety of possibilities that offer something out of the ordinary.
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Free Vacations – Try Couch Surfing, Volunteering
Traveling on a budget is not only possible, but fun. In fact, trying these free techniques can be significantly more rewarding than traditional travel.
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Health Improvements Emerge from a Sick Economy
Americans appear to be getting healthier during the recession. Physical activity and a positive change in attitude add up to new methods of survival for self and family.
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Over 50? International Volunteer Travel Service
Many international volunteer service opportunities are available to retirees and boomers over 50. Some programs help people, others the environment. But, volunteers pay.
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Volunteer Opportunities in Biology
Amateur biologists from current students to adults long out of school can find ways to participate in the science of biology as a volunteer.
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Web Sites for Wanderlust
Dreaming about escaping to another place? If intriguing trips and amazing deals perk your interest, then you'll want to check out some of my recent web discoveries. Here I describe a handful of travel web sites that are so addictive that I couldn't keep them to myself. If you become addicted, too, rest assured there's no side effects (except, perhaps finding yourself kayaking in Belize).
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What Area - Europe Two!
Here are some volunteer opportunities for ye! Also, things you’re going to have to keep your eyes and ears open for; in other words, don’t go ANYWHERE without checking things out first!
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