Travel Adventurously. Volunteer Meaningfully.
As the most adventurous part of South America, Patagonia deserves some serious travel time. Previously on the blog, I outlined four Patagonia travel itineraries for one- or two-week trips, but this time I’m tackling planning a far longer route around this dazzling region. If a short visit just isn’t enough (believe me, it’s not), then the […]
Beneath the belly of the 20-person aircraft, the verdant jungle foliage of Madidi National Park, Bolivia scrambles to extract itself from a chaotic knot of dense branches, and indistinct clouds of crimson wings suggest macaws in flight through lofty treetops. Low mountains occasionally sprout from the landscape, but the miles of dense green are repetitive […]
Volunteering in South America is a life-changing way of travelling and can help you see a completely different side to the continent, all while making a tangible difference. But with 12 countries to choose from, a surprising eight different official languages and environments ranging from jungle to mountain and desert, it can be difficult to decide […]
Volunteering’s a great thing to do, right? All those sad-looking children, or abused animals, just waiting for you to come and help them escape the hand that old lady luck has dealt. You’ll change the world. You’ll inspire a whole community to dream bigger. You’ll become a hero. Maybe not. I’m not saying that volunteering […]
Last March I saw an advert for a writer to author Moon Chile, part of a series of Moon guidebooks published in the USA that specialise in independent travel. It hardly needs stating that, since becoming a travel writer, my number one goal has been to author a guidebook, and it seemed like this opportunity […]
One Sunday, I woke to the strangest of sounds. From my hostel bed on a busy street in La Paz, I was normally jolted awake by the blaring chaos of the city: cars beep a relentless tune as they narrowly skirt around one another, avoiding multiple potential collisions every second. Each morning at 6 am, […]
