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''Taste of Volunteering'' Project Description
Repair & Maintenance, Help in a community kitchen, Environmental conservation

Trip Highlights

• Volunteer project in Cape Town or in a township
• Cape Town and Table Mountain
• Cape of Good Hope and penguins
• Cultural Township Tour
• Stellenbosch Winelands

Trip Highlights

• Volunteering in Cape Town's disadvantaged communities
• Table Mountain and luxury boutique hotel in Cape Town
• Cape of Good Hope
• Cultural Township Tour
• Stellenbosch Winelands
• Luxury “Big 5” safari at a premier Big 5 lodge

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Your volunteer project is with a variety of charities in Cancun Mexico. Help out with tasks such as preparing and serving meals, accompanying elderly people and enabling them to be more active, teaching English and helping out with maintenance work such as gardening, cleaning and painting.

Trip Highlights

• Mayan Chichen Itza
• Rio Lagartos
• Colonial Merida
• Calakmul biosphere reserve
• Biking, snorkelling and kayaking
• Playa del Carmen beach

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Repairs and Renovations, ad hoc Village Based Projects

Trip Highlights

• Volunteer Project in Talamenzou
• Magical Marrakech
• Trekking in High Atlas Mountains
• Camel ride in Sahara Desert & overnight nomad camp
• Route of the thousand kasbahs
• Todra Gorge
• Essaouira and its beaches

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Repairs & Renovations, ad hoc Village Based Projects

Trip Highlights

• Building new classrooms in a Berber village
• Marrakech’s souks (markets), gardens, museums
• Djeema el Fna - musicians, storytellers & snake charmers
• Trekking in the High Atlas Mountains (April-Nov) or 
• Exploring the Sahara Desert (Dec-Mar)
• Charming Essaouira and its beach

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Repairs & Renovations, Office Work with a disabled children's village near Beijing

Trip Highlights

• Volunteering at a disabled children's village near Beijing
• Exploring Beijing’s back alleys by rickshaw
• Full day at remote section of the Great Wall
• Xian’s Terracotta Warriors
• Guilin’s sheer limestone formations
• Learn tai chi and calligraphy
• Night boat ride in Shanghai

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Teaching, Village-based Projects, Building, Environmental, Repairs and Renovations

Trip Highlights

• Volunteering with AIDS victims and other disadvantaged people
• Victoria Falls
• South Luangwe National Park; view ‘Big 5’ animals
• Tribal Textiles Workshop
• Chipata

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Teaching, Village-based Projects, Building, Environmental, Repairs & Renovations 

Trip Highlights

• Volunteering with AIDS sufferers, orphans and other disadvantaged people
• Sailing on Lake Malawi
• Likoma Island
• Liwonde National Park
• Mumbo Island
• Luxury accommodation

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Play your part in developing a sustainable organic farming project in a remote indigenous community aimed at preserving the Maori culture. Feel part of the ‘whanau’ (extended family) and gain a deeper understanding of the fascinating Waitaha tribe.

Trip Highlights
 
•    Volunteer in Pelorus Sounds on pristine Maori property
•    Explore Waiheke Island and its boutique vineyards and cafes
•    Feel the excitement of an Americas Cup match race
•    Sail on the stunning Bay of Islands
•    Fly down North Island in a Helicopter (via Waitomo Caves and Huka Lodge)
•    Relax in New Zealand's finest luxury lodges
•    Taste the wines of the Marlborough Sounds
•    Watch whales in Kaikoura
•    Heli-hike on the Franz Josef Glacier
•    Soar over magnificent Milford Sound in a helicopter
•    Walk, Fly and Jetboat on the ‘Siberia Experience’
•    Choose from a myriad of activities in Queenstown

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Environmental conservation in the Catlins

Trip Highlights

• Environmental conservation volunteering
• Albatross viewing
• Doubtful Sound overnight cruise
• Penguin and sea lion viewing
• Queenstown and its adrenalin activities
• Lake WanakaFly/hike/jet boat experience

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Turtle conservation with Aboriginal rangers

Trip Highlights

• Mapoon and volunteering with Aboriginal rangers
• Haggerstone Island
• Tree-house living in the tablelands
• World Heritage Rainforest
• Aurukun Wetland Charter - Aboriginal interaction
• Superb accommodation in luxury nature lodges

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Turtle conservation with Aboriginal rangers

Trip Highlights

• Mapoon and volunteering with Aboriginal rangers
• Assist at the Cape York Turtle Rescue camp
• Great Barrier Reef
• World Heritage Rainforest
• Skyrail and Kuranda
• Ancient Aboriginal rock art sites
• Lakefield National Park

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Teaching and Repairs with "Homes of Hope" or "Happy Homes".

Trip Highlights

• Your volunteering project at Homes of Hope or 'Happy Homes'
• White water rafting
• Hiking in highlands
• Snorkeling
• Cruise in the Yasawa Islands

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Assist at the Happy Home for Fijian street children or Homes of Hope for Solo Mothers and their children

Trip Highlights

• Volunteer project
• Accommodation at the five-star resorts
• Coral Coast and Kula Eco-Bird Park
• Optional day cruise
• Optional golf or day-spa

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Repairs & renovations of houses, schools, and bridges; or assisting in medical clinics, if you have medical/paramedical skills.

Trip Highlights

• Volunteering in a remote island community
• Larofa Village and its cannibal history
• Cultural tour
• Tanna volcano
• Rivers, cascades, beaches, swimming
• Snorkelling and kayaking
• Cruising in Moso Islands

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Repair and renovation of houses, schools, and bridges; environmental protection; business and computing training; and assisting in medical clinics.

Trip Highlights

• Volunteer in a school
• Port Vila
• Larofa Village and cannibal history
• Cultural tour
• Snorkeling and kayaking
• Rivers, cascades, beaches, swimming
• Cruising in Moso Islands

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Conservation of Sumatran Rhino

Trip Highlights

• Voluntary work with SOS rhino on Sumatran rhino conservation
• Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre
• Sukau and kinabatangan river to view proboscis monkeys, endemic to Borneo
• Tabin Wildlife Reserve, mud volcano, rainforest
• Whitewater rafting
• Garama river cruise
• Tunku Abdul Rahman marine park

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Teach in a remote community school. Help local people read, support them in mathematics, English and computor lessons.

Trip Highlights

• Volunteer project
• Chiva Express train journey
• Rio Colorado Community support
• Otavalo’s handcraft market tour
• Amazonian 3 nights programme
• Colonial Cuenca and surroundings
• Modern Guayaquil

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Environmental Conservation, Renovations and Village based Projects

Trip highlights:

• Volunteering in an inspiring, improverished community
• Amboseli National Park and views of Mt Kilimanjaro
• Indigenous community based tourism initiative
• Tsavo East game park
• Maasai Mara National Park

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Environmental conservation - depending on the time of year, you can help with bird monitoring and tagging, tree planting, and even maintaining a footbridge to a bird lookout point.

Trip highlights

• Environmental volunteering in Watamu
• Beautiful beaches
• Vibrant Watamu
• Three distinctly different game parks – Amboseli, Tsavo East, and Masai Mara National Parks

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Help develop a Masai tourism initiative that uses proceeds to support a shelter for young girls that choose not to undergo female circumcision

Trip highlights

• Stay in Luxury accommodation
• Discover private conservancies
• Find unique species in Samburu  Game Park – a little known gem
• Visit Maasai Mara (and optional hot air balloon ride)
• Explore a Maasai village with a Maasai warrior
• Relax on an exclusive island in magical Lamu

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
World Heritage Building Restoration 

Trip Highlights:

• World Heritage Building Restoration volunteer project
• Tripoli – its souks and museum
• Leptis Magna – the best preserved Roman ruins in the world
• Ghadames and its Old Town
• Rumla Desert and its stunning scenery
• Jebel Nafusa and its Berber villages perched on rocky outcrops

''Taste of Volunteering'' Project Description
Repairs & Renovations, Teaching computers (if you speak French)

Trip Highlights

•  Volunteer project in Cyangugu
• Chimpanzee trekking
• Lake Kivu
• Insights into traditional African life
• Land of a Thousand Hills
• Nyungwe Rainforest
• Volcano National Park and gorillas

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Build a playground or monitor humpback whales or survey a coral reef

Trip Highlights

• Scuba dive or swim in clear turquoise waters
• Sail around stunning islands
• Bush walk and spot elephants

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
The project is in East Caprivi, and aims to provide alternate livelihoods for the local people through the construction and maintenance of community campsites.

Trip Highlights

• Volunteer project in East Caprivi
• Luxury accommodation throughout
• Okavango Delta - mokoro trip, game drives and walks
• Chobe – glorious elephant and buffalo herds
• Victoria Falls – sundowner cruise on the ‘African Queen’
• Lianshulu Lodge
• Private, chartered flight
• Okonjima and the Cheetah Conservation Project

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Elephant-farmer conflict resolution projects or teaching in a primary school

Trip Highlights

• Elephant-farmer conflict resolution projects or teaching in a primary school
• Towering Sossusvlei dunes
• Luxurious Le Mirage spa
• Quaint Swakopmund & optional activities
• Safari in Etosha National Park
• Breathtaking Damaraland

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Your volunteer project is with the OvaHimba people in North western Namibia. Help build traditional homesteads (mud huts), fix water wells or work on painting projects.

Trip Highlights

• Interaction with remote OvaHimba people
• Safari in Etosha National Park
• Breathtaking Skeleton Coast
• Quaint Swakopmund
• Stunning Sossusvlei dunes

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Help provide children with an education that gives them a foundation and the confidence to succeed in this impoverished country.

Trip Highlights

• Volunteer project at an orphanage
• Explore vibrant Kathmandu
• Visit the Kathmandu Valley
• Learn about local culture, anthropology, politics etc.
• Hike in to the famous Everest region
• Spot a variety of game on a wildlife safari

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Teaching and being a reading partner

Trip Highlights

• Volunteer project
• Kathmandu
• Kathmandu Valley
• Trekking
• Family Home-Stay

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Build a house for homeless people and prepare a meal for street kids on Friday the night.

Trip Highlights

• Volunteering with the people of Patagonia
• Iguaçu Falls
• 4WD Jungle Excursion
• Glacier National Park
• Torres del Paine - Chile
• Ushuaia – southern most town in the world
• Beagle Channel marine park

Trip Highlights

• Plaza de Mayo
• San Telmo’s antique shops
• Colourful La Boca
• Retiro and Recoleta’s luxurious French-style palaces
• A four hour bike ride

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Repairs and renovations of a school in a "longhouse" community, or collecting and categorising medicinal plants (depending on the needs of the community at the time of your trip).

Trip Highlights

• Volunteering with a "longhouse" community
• Hike up Mt Kinabalu (optional)
• Mulu National Park and the largest cave system in the world
• Longboat rides
• Pinnacles of Mt Api (optional climb)
• The infamous Headhunter trail
• Longhouse stay
• Colonial Kuching
• Orang Utan rehabilitation centre

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
You can help improve the lives of 'at risk' children, by transforming their living environment. They may have been born into unfortunate circumstances but this shelter aims to give them a safe haven and a place to develop vocational skills.

Trip Highlights

• Four meaningful days assisting at a shelter for street kids
• The majestic Iguaçu Falls
• The magical Pantanal wetland region; maybe spot a jaguar

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project

Building Community Facilities in Natal, Cistern and reservoir construction, house building, reforestation, honey extraction in remote Araruna

Trip Highlights

• Experience Natal city
• Enjoy a 4WD buggy drive
• Explore Olinda town a UNESCO World Heritage site
• Visit a Manatee Research Centre
• Learn about Charles Darwin Ecological Centre
• Walk in the Mata Atlantica rainforest
• Stay at Sertao (outback) ranch
• Discover the colonial town of Areia

Trip Highlights

• Boutique luxury hotel in Santa Teresa or on the beach
• Samba dance show
• Sugarloaf Mountain
• Christ the Redeemer statue
• Ipanema beach
• Maracana football stadium (we can arrange tickets to a game!)

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Volunteering at an orphanage near Angkor Wat. You can also help build a house for an impoverished family, but this involves extra cost.

Trip Highlights

• A fulfilling volunteering project at an orphanage, or helping build a house
• Lively Phnom Penh
• The killing fields
• World Heritage Angkor Wat and the temple complex
• Tonle Sap Lake & floating village

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Building, Repairs & Renovations, Physiotherapy or IT/Administrative work, Medical with Yakkum, a foundation for the rehabilitation of physically disabled children and young adults from villages throughout Bali

Trip Highlights

• Volunteering with the disabled people of Bali
• Sanur Beach
• The artistic town of Ubud
• Luxury boutique villa on Senggigi Beach, Lombok
• The mountain resort of Tetebatu
• Gili Terawangan island - relax, sunbathe, swim, snorkel, horse ride or explore
• Luxurious hotel in Bali
• Spa and massage treatment

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Teaching English to female and male guides, and porters - groups of people who have historically received little or no formal education. Your work can increase their chances of earning higher, more sustainable incomes.

Trip Highlights

• Volunteering and living with the wonderful Sasak people
• The mountain resort of Tetebatu
• Rice fields and plantations
• Mt Rinjani National Park four day trek
• Gili Trawangan island - relax, sunbathe, swim, snorkel, horse ride or explore
• Luxury boutique hotels on Gili Trawangan & Senggigi Beach

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Building repair & renovations as well as physiotherapy, medical or IT/administrative work with Yakkum, a foundation for the rehabilitation of physically disabled children and young adults from villages throughout Bali

Trip Highlights

• Volunteer with Bali’s disabled people
• Artistic Ubud town
• Sanur Beach
• Whitewater rafting
• Mountain biking down Mt Batur
• Hiking near Bali’s National Park
• Luxurious spa and massage treatment

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Environmental Cleanup in the Galapagos Islands

Trip Highlights

• Volunteering Project with Galapagos Foundation
• Quito and Equatorial monument tour
• Chiva Express Chimborazo Adventure to Riobamba
• Galapagos 7 night programme
• Otavalo’s handcraft market tour
• Sailing
• Snorkeling

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Assist with a medical clinic's efforts to provide healthcare to local people who cannot afford private healthcare. Roles that you can help fill include:

- filing and other administrative assistance

- gardening and landscaping

- basic repairs and renovations

- translation and interpreting if you speak Spanish

- medical assistance if you are a doctor, nurse or other health professional (allopath or homeopath)

- therapy if you are suitably qualified (massage, psychology, speech therapy, music therapy)

- plumbing and electrical assistance

- computer training or web design

- photography or video making assistance

Trip Highlights

• Making a difference at an inspiring medical clinic
• Relax in turquoise blue waters - sun bathing, snorkelling, sailing or diving
• Stay in boutique luxury accommodation
• Explore the unique 'cenotes' - natural sinkholes with crystal-clear water

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Environmental, Repairs and Renovations, Teaching, Medical

Trip Highlights

• Teach, build, clean, paint or garden, near Cuzco
• Visit the mystical Sacred Valley
• Explore the Amazon jungle with an expert guide
• View the sunrise over Machu Picchu
• Trek the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Build houses for needy families outside of Antigua. There are also great projects for people with specialist skills, such as doctors and pharmacists.

Trip Highlights

• Meaningful volunteering in impoverished communities
• Colonial Antigua
• Lake Atitlan’s villages
• The Sunday markets of Chichicastenango
• Tikal’s ancient Mayan ruins

Taste of Volunteering Project
Listen to fascinating stories, as you help former coca leaf (used for making cocaine) growers develop their eco-tourism project, or feel part of a small community as you help realise the dreams of a family run fairtrade coffee plantation.

Trip Highlights

• Explore colonial Cartagena's gorgeous buildings
• Visit the famous salt cathedral - worship services still take place here, deep underground
• Witness the wildness and beauty of Tayrona National Park
• Stay in charming boutique luxury colonial accommodation

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Physiotherapy, Repairs & Renovations, Gardening and Teaching English

Trip Highlights

• Volunteering with victims of Agent Orange
• Hanoi’s old town
• Perfume Pagoda
• Ninh Binh, "Halong Bay on the land"
• Phat Diem cathedral & 19th century bridge
• Halong Bay by luxury "junk"

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Physiotherapy, Repairs & Renovations, Gardening and Teaching English.

Trip Highlights

• Volunteering with victims of Agent Orange
• Bustling Saigon
• Meandering Mekong Delta
• Peaceful Dalat
• Relaxing Nha Trang
• Sleepy Hoi An
• Colonial Hue
• Stunning Halong Bay
• French influenced Hanoi
• Fascinating hill tribes of Sapa

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Conversational English Teaching in a remote hill-tribe village

Trip Highlights

• Volunteer teaching
• Hanoi’s Museum of Ethnology, Ho Chi Minh complex, a “cyclo” ride through the old town
• Sapa’s ethnic villages
• Hiking in stunning hill scenery

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Physiotherapy, Repairs & Renovations, Gardening and Teaching English with the Vietnam Friendship Village

Trip Highlights

• Volunteering with victims of Agent Orange
• Bustling Saigon
• Cu Chi Tunnels
• Mekong Delta
• Laid back Hoi An
• Hanoi’s old town
• Halong Bay

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Teaching English

Trip Highlights

• Teaching English at an ethnic college for your volunteer project
• Vientiane
• Vang Vieng - kayaking, cave exploring, inner-tube riding down the river
• World Heritage Luang Prabang
• Ban Xang Hai ethnic minority village
• Kuang Sy waterfalls

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Repair and maintenance work at an orphanage; or environmental work with Mlup Baitong.

Trip Highlights

• Repair and maintenance work
• Phnom Penh’s pagodas, palaces, museums
• The killing fields of the Khmer Rouge regime
• Boat ride to the ancient city of Angkor Borei
• World Heritage Angkor Wat
• Ton Le Sap Lake and its floating village
• Vientiane
• The mysterious Plain of Jars
• A H’mong ethnic village
• World Heritage Luang Prabang
• Boat trip to the amazing Pak Ou caves

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Activities range from repair and renovation of houses, schools, and bridges; to environmental protection; business and computing training; and assisting in medical clinic

Trip Highlights

• Volunteer in a school
• Port Vila
• Larofa Village and cannibal history
• Cultural tour

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Repairs & Renovations, Teaching English

Trip Highlights

• Volunteering with some of Delhi's neediest - yet loveliest - people
• Delhi’s Gandhi Memorial, and temples
• The Taj Mahal
• Ranthambore Tiger Reserve
• The “pink city” of Jaipur
• The deserted city of Fatehpur Sikri

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Village Based Projects, Environmental Projects

Trip Highlights

• Volunteering with the wonderful people of Bali Island in the Sunderbans
• Calcutta city tour
• Game cruises and birding tours within the unique Sunderbans eco-system
• Potential to spot tigers
• Visiting land based tiger viewing watchtowers
• Staying in a community-owned eco-lodge at ‘Sunderbans Jungle Camp’
• Evening entertainment at the rural theatre

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Based at an orphanage in Constanta. Help with repair and renovation work, and relieve the workload of the permanent care-givers.

Trip Highlights

• Orphanage volunteer project
• Panoramic Bucharest
• Dinner at the Count Dracula Club
• Monasteries of Voronet and Nearnt
• Brasov and Dracula’s Castle
• Bran Castle
• Danube river boat trip

Your ''Taste of Volunteering'' Project
Help at an orphanage for children who lost their families in the tsunami

Trip Highlights

• Volunteer project
• Bangkok’s temples and palaces
• Chiang Mai’s night bazaar
• Ethnic minority hilltribes
• Mekong River Cruise
• Elephant riding & bamboo rafting
• Sunbathing & swimming on Phuket Island

Your ''Taste of Volunteering'' Project
Tsunami relief - assistance at an orphanage

Trip Highlights

• Tsunami Relief volunteer project at an orphanage
• Luxury accommodation throughout
• Bangkok’s temples & palaces
• The ancient capital of Ayuthaya
• Luxury overnight cruise from Bangkok to Ayuthaya
• Khao Lak province
• Luxury jungle camp, Elephant Hills - canoe trips, lake rides aboard long-tail boats, elephant riding and conservation talks

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Elephant care and conservation

Trip Highlights

• Elephant caring volunteer project
• Bangkok tour
• Language classes and market practicing
• Thai traditional massage
• Chiang Mai and Doi Suthep
• Elephants and caring for them
• Hilltribe interaction
• Trekking
• Rafting

Your ''Taste of Volunteering'' Project
Repairs, Building, Teaching, Farming in a small village community

Trip Highlights

• Volunteering and meaningful interaction in Ja Bor, a hilltribe community
• Bangkok tour
• Chiang Mai, Night Market
• Doi Suthep
• Trekking
• Rafting

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
An orphanage where you can help teach, or work on various building projects, using innovative, ecologically sustainable techniques.

Trip Highlights

• Volunteer at an inspiring orphanage near Burma
• Exploring Bangkok and local markets
• Erawan Waterfalls
• Canoe trip in Kanchanaburi
• Rice barge cruise

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Repairs & Renovations, Teaching English

Trip Highlights

• Volunteering in deprived parts of Delhi - either teaching or repair work
• Old Delhi
• Taj Mahal
• Chambal Nature Safari
• Ranthambore Tiger Reserve
• Deserted city of Fatehpur Sikri
• Pink city of Jaipur in Rajasthan
• Ultimate luxury throughout

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Helping conduct AIDS/HIV awareness programmes in schools, and assisting AIDS/HIV sufferers

Trip Highlights

• Volunteering in schools and assisting HIV sufferers
• Local craft villages
• Kumasi Fort
• Manso Slave Market
• Cape Coast and beautiful beaches
• Accra's coffin makers

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Help build a library, IT and reading room at a remote school

Trip Highlights

• Help build a school in a remote community
• Fabulous riad in Marrakech
• Djeema el Fna square in Marrakech
• Shopping in the souks     

As seen in Travel + Leisure Magazine!
Make a positive difference in a favela community through art, teaching, sports or health.  Interact with the locals in the favelas, on the coast and at a samba club

• Rio’s stunning landscapes and icons such as Christ the Redeemer
• Copacabana, Ipanema, Joa beaches and sunset over Arpoador Beach
• Bohemian-chic Santa Teresa neighborhood
• Hidden gems that only the locals know about
• Boutique luxury accommodation and private tours with an expert local guide

Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Play a role in the conservation of endangered bears and chamois in Europe.

Trip Highlights

• Help conserve endangered bears and chamois
• Stay in Aqua City Resort; Europe's leading eco-hotel
• Experience stunning mountain hikes
• Enjoy fascinating historic villages