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Volunteer Travel - Articles & Travel Stories

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Explore 16 Volunteer Travel travel stories from Adventure Life, featuring expert insights, destination highlights, and firsthand experiences from ancient and culturally rich sites. Whether you’re planning your next adventure in 2026 or 2027, these stories offer inspiration for exploring ruins, archaeological wonders, and hidden historical gems across the globe. Learn from the journeys of fellow travelers and discover meaningful ways to connect with the past through thoughtful travel. Let these Volunteer Travel stories guide your path into history.
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Rickshaw Run Through India for Water

A 12 day, 2,000 mile race in a auto rickshaw across India with absolutely no support besides a starting and ending point – why would anyone do this? We did it in order to bring more visibility to the clean water crisis in the world. With the help of partners like Adventure Life, we were able to raise $16,000 for charity: water in essence …
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Guanacos hanging out....many many of these

Habitat para la Humanidad Chile

Joanne traveled down south with winter to Chile and volunteered with Habitat for Humanity building homes in local communities. Through a little sweat and tears they made great progress. After volunteering, she continued on to explore the wonders of Patagonia.
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Volunteer Chronicles: The English Language Institute

Volunteering as an English instructor at the University of Montana could not be more rewarding, or comical.
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Our studly crew of weed pullers

Adventure Life Volunteers with United Way

Our Adventure Life staff had the opportunity to give back to the community with United Way's National Day of Action, June 21st. We grabbed our work gloves and headed out of the office to volunteer at Orchard Gardens. This project is a part of Garden City Harvest, which builds community through agriculture by growing produce with and for people …
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A Welcoming Smile

Latin America Travel: Spanish 101

Spanish a bit rusty? You and me both. In general, Spanish is used throughout Latin America - but you'll definitely encounter dozens of other languages too.  On a Belize trip or Guyana tour you'll find English as the official language, with other languages spoken in varying regions. For example, along the coast you're most likely to hear Creole …
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Reforestation project in Peru

Reforestation Project in Peru

The Adventure Life grant program sponsored a reforestation project for the Cachiccata and Socma communities. Two thousand trees were planted during the project. The group used a tree call the Tara, which is native to this area in Peru. The tree fruit is another benefit to the community which will be enjoyed for generations to come. It also …
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Children in Iguazu

Yacutinga Enviromental Education - Iguazu
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Mantay Shelter Director Raquel Garcia and our group

Our Trip to Peru & Mantay Shelter

Every segment of our trip was top-notch. The weather was great, along with the food, the tours, the lodging, the transportation and the people. We made a stop at Mantay in Cusco to deliver peace pals and medical supplies. We were very impressed to learn that Adventure Life has a relationship with the shelter. Thanks to Milagros in Lima, we learned …
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Donation to Escuela Antonio Jose de Sucre

Adventure Life partnered with our local office to provide sports supplies to the kids at Antonio Jose de Sucre School. Check out some of the photos from the event!
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Construction of the retaining wall

Retaining Wall Grant Project

Adventure Life has funded the building of a retaining wall in Comalapa, Guatemala. The grant project was initiated by Long Way Home and dubbed "The Great Wall of Comalapa".
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Fun at the Costa Rica holiday party!

Costa Rica Holiday Party!

Adventure Life partnered with our local office in Costa Rica to fund a Holiday Party for the students at Cuarros School in December of 2011.
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Students and volunteers in front of the school

Adventure Life Grant: Supporting Long Way Home in Guatemala

The non-profit organization, Long Way Home, receives an Adventure Life grant to help complete construction of a K-12 school buildings in Guatemala. The school is unique in that it is being built with re-purposed materials such as earth-packed tires, inorganic trash-filled plastic bottles and earth-filled feed bags
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Monica makes a new friend volunteering at an orphanage

Belize Student Volunteer Trip

Pacific Ridge School takes a trip to Belize. The students stayed outside San Ignacio, Belize at Pooks Hill Jungle Lodge. They spent time cave tubing, hiking in Cockcomb Wildlife Sanctuary, exploring ancient Maya ruins, and volunteering at a local children's home.There were 12 students from Pacific Ridge School (Carlsbad, CA) on this Belize trip. …
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Volunteering with the local children

Adventure Pacifica Tour in Costa Rica

Read through Earl Rogers daily account of his Adventure Pacifica Tour in Costa Rica. After spending time volunteering aboard a naval ship, he relaxed on this Costa Rica tour to appreciate and enjoy the local culture and wildlife.
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Beginning stages of planting trees in Peru

Peru Tour Extension: Native Tree Planting

Our Native Tree Planting project is located in Cachiccata, a small Andean community located just 5 minutes by car from ollantaytambo in Cusco, Peru. Here you can help us reforestate this depredated area by planting native trees which in the future will not only help the environment but will allow local villagers commerce wood, fruits and …
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School children eating breakfast

Peru Tour Extension: Healthy Breakfast

This is sometimes the first meal of the day for the children and is especially important, as many of them have to walk for over an hour a day to get to school. This is often after they have had to help their parents feed the animals and look after their younger siblings.
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