Fancy Volunteering?

December 12, 2007

Traveling it seems is turning a corner. While they will never be expunged entirely, the world of hyper luxurious, all-inclusive resorts is being confronted more and more by a different, more organic form of travel.

Enter ‘volun-tourism.’ For the same price as a ritzy, expensive resort, families and the stray traveler can visit the same countries, often for far cheaper, sleep in much more modest conditions and even lend a hand to struggling local populations. It is a very noble goal on the part of travel companies and volunteering organizations, a goal no doubt meant to quell the trampling feet of the ignorant tourist into a soft patter.

The website www.responsibletravel.com offers an wide range of such trips features various locales, volunteer opportunities and family bonding experiences. These trips would surely put Sandals to shame.

A goal of travel should always be to give as much as you take. The traveler is the eternally blessed, blessed to be able to see the sights, visit the places and smell the cultures that inhabit this world. It is our duty to help leave a positive mark in our wake and a volunteering trip offers just that experience.

I for one am always a little grated by the constant schedules and strict parameters that most package trips offer (Or at least most of the ones I’ve ever been on), and having never taken such a trip, I can’t really delve with any certainty as to the “tour guide” nature of the trips. It seems to me that any trip that has you (or you and your family) building sand dams in Kenya, or monitoring coral reefs in the Caribbean is going to be a trip out of the ordinary.

So next time you’re eying your calendar and planning that next unbelievable get-away, consider a trip in the volunteering industry. It is a rewarding and beneficial way to traipse the globe and who know, maybe you’ll live on in history after a certain sand damn or library is named after you!

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